Hello all. My dog is not a hunting dog but I was just wondering if anyone else has gone through this with their dog. My five year old Bull Terrier came out of her heat cycle about two weeks ago and quit eating about three days ago. She would eat a little bit but not like normal. My girlfriend took her to the vet this morning and the vet told her if we would have waited much longer we probably would have lost her. She had surgery this morning and is home now. Has anybody else gone through this? How long before she is back to normal? Thanks for looking.

We had a dog die from pyo, glad u caught it in time. They spayed her right?

I have not gone through this, but we did go through a female that had a pup lodge in her birth canal and she got very ill very fast and got septic. She had emergancy surgery and we had alomost lost her as well. I gave her a product called Nutri-Cal to help give her energy (I am not telling you to do this I am just saying that is what I did) Our female was up and running around with in a week like nothing ever happend. I hope this has helped you, and pray that your dog will be ok.

Yes she was spayed. I took her back this morning and the doc said she is doing really well. She is still not eating normal but I guess that will pick back up after while. Thank you for the advice.

Every time a female comes in to heat the cervix is open and that can lead to pyometria and though there are some who try and fight the problem with antibiotics chances of a female contracting it again is extremely likely with the next heat cycle so the best and fastest way to get a female healthy again is an emergency spay.

It will take a little bit for her to get back to normal but they do come around fairly quickly once spayed.

I have seen some females that went down be fine eating well night before next morning thought they were going to die before getting to the vet..emergency spay and with in 24 hours were back up doing way better..took about a week for them to be pretty much back to normal.

I had a female springer they performed an emergency spay on due to pyo. It was extremely hard on her body and she never quite had the energy levels she had prior to it. She was about 5 or 6 when this occurred. Still a great dog, just didn't have the get up and go after she recovered.

You guys got me, I had never heard of this and I've raised dogs
litterally all of my life...never had it happen, but I usually don't keep a lot of female dogs to hunt with...Learn something
every day..DD