I keep a bottle of Penicillin in the fridge. Chance our 6 yr old Whippet, a few weeks ago I awoke to him next to me in bed at 3 am, which is where he always sleeps. His breathing was not normal, it was too rapid. When I went to touch his face, it was warm, then I went to touch his lower belly down by the groin, it was on fire. Took his temp and it was 105. I gave him 4 baby aspirin. Then I started to look for the source of infection, an infected cut can be a likely cause. I found that he had a wound on his foot that was badly infected, yet I never noticed him licking it. Cleaned the wound aggressively to get rid of the necrotic tissue, wrapped it just for that night, gave him a 4ml injection of Penicillin for 2 days in a row. The aspirin took his fever down within 30 min's, but I made him sleep in the living room for several days after that, as his fever came back for about 3 day's and spiked at night, as it does with people, then I treated it with aspirin again, being under the covers of my bed only will increase the body temp. Normally if any of our dog's get a wound from whatever source, it's almost a guarantee that it will get infected and I always will give Penicillin for 2 to 3 days in a row, except for our Italian Greyhounds, I hold off on the Penicillin, as their body's seem to adversely react to so many different Med's. The Rabies shot is a big concern for me with the Italians, as so many can have bad, even lethal reactions. I also do my Distemper every 3 yrs now, yearly shots are over medicating, over rated, but the Vet's won't tell this, even though they all got the Memo some years back... These Vaccinations can be most harmful to the small breeds of dogs in particular.
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