22/06/2025
Be Careful 💔
I’m sharing this in the hope that it might save someone else’s beloved fur baby 💔😭
Please, please don’t let your dogs eat grass, drink from puddles, or even walk on grass right now. Our little girl picked something up from the fields and it’s spreading fast in the Bishop Auckland and Darlington area. There’s no confirmed name for the illness yet, but it’s tragically killing dogs very quickly 💔
On Wednesday, I called the vet because our baby wasn’t eating, seemed off, and had diarrhoea. I thought it was just a minor bug. They admitted her due to dehydration, and I picked her up at 3:45 PM the same day. The vet said she had perked up enough to go home but advised we bring her back the next morning for further care.
But once she was home, she was clearly still very unwell. At 9 PM, I let her out to the yard and saw blood in her stool. I called the vet immediately. They told me it would cost £3,000 upfront to see her and keep her overnight. I begged to pay in instalments but was told it had to be paid in full right away—something I just couldn’t do. So I stayed up with her all night, syringing 1ml of water into her every 20 minutes. She was bleeding, her breathing changed, and she vomited 31 times between 11 PM and 9 AM.
The next morning, I rushed her back to the vets. I feared it might be parvo, but she had already tested negative. They admitted her again, and I asked the vet if she was going to die. The vet said, “I hope not.”
Later, they called me with three heartbreaking options:
1. Put her to sleep
2. Take her off medication and bring her home to pass naturally
3. Pay £7,000 for intensive care with only a 1% chance of survival
That evening, I went to see her and make the hardest decision of my life. Our girl was already fading. She had eight different drips going into her, but there was nothing more they could do. Her organs were shutting down, and they couldn’t stop the bleeding or vomiting. We had no choice but to let her go peacefully 😭💔
She was just 7 months old. Fully vaccinated.
Please be careful. Whatever this is, it’s deadly—and fast.
