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Here's the deal: I had two pit bull/kurr mixes. They're both 3 months old and one's male and the other female, they both came from the same mother. Then on Thursday the ...show more
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Dogs are not imune to mushroom toxins. Do you have a picture of the mushrooms in your yard, with a clear picture of the gills and cap and base of the stem, may be able to identify if you have amatoxin containing mushrooms in your yard.
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  • hagmegsis answered 3 years ago
    a few things it may or may not be is parvo, distemper, or whip worms. We once picked up two seemingly healthy wolf pups 2 days later the female died while my mom was in town buying the meds the vet told us we needed. The male almost died too but luckily we got to him in time
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  • Ocimom answered 3 years ago
    W/O doing an autopsy on the dog, you won't know for sure. But you need to keep your dogs in the house and watch what they are doing outside. Anything outside could have been poisonous (plants, etc) where the dog ate them. Puppies should not be outside w/o supervision - they pick u and eat weird things; just like a little child may put things it its mouth and possibly swallow it.

    IMO you shouldn't have dogs if you are treating them the way you are going (being outside, not spayed/neutered, buying mutts from backyard breeders). Sorry for your loss but you need to work on being a better owner.
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  • Carrie Nightshade answered 3 years ago
    Could have been parvo. Wow Ocimom, could you be anymore mean? He could have got the puppies from someone for free. They are too young to be fixed.
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  • ladystang answered 3 years ago
    you did as you have two puppies outside unsupervised
    have to vet do a necropsy if you want to know how
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  • Kari answered 3 years ago
    could of been poissoned. check your garden, people in uk are horrid enough to throw poison into gardens with dogs x
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  • What the heck killed my dog?
    Here's the deal:
    I had two pit bull/kurr mixes. They're both 3 months old and one's male and the other female, they both came from the same mother. Then on Thursday the male one seems perfectly fine in morning but when I got home from school I couldn't find him, I assumed he was fine because he usually goes under our house and plays and etc. But then the next morning we found him lying on the ground extremely weak, we took him inside and tried to give him water. We noticed there was blood around his anus and he was most likely in pain because his eyes were teared up.
    We took him to the vet shortly after and they couldn't find any parasites, but they gave us some medicine. When I came back from school (last day of 9th grade) he died 15 minutes later. We buried him out back and mourned for a long time.
    The symptoms he had (loss of appetite, weakness, bloody diarrhea, dry muzzle, and dehydration), pointes to distemper, but he died in approximately 1 day while distemper kills over weeks.
    I suspect it may have been mushrooms because they recently started growing in our yard, but I don't know if dogs are immune from those or not.
    My final hypothesis is him eating acorns, I saw him eating them sometimes and the shells may have torn up his little digestive system.
    Please, I need to know what happened! :(
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