Coughing Dogs

A week after Maisie was spayed, she came down with a cough accompanied by vomiting. That gradually went away and now this morning our oldest dog Baillie (13 years old) is coughing. It has affected her so much that she didn't eat her dinner, which is highly unusual for this greedy cocker spaniel.

My friend JS told me that their dog was in a kennel at the same time Maisie had her surgery (at the same vet's), and their dog grew ill with a cough. So we have determined that the germs came from the animal clinic.

With Troy visiting (and his master BJ at the beach for the weekend) and Cisco around, we will have to see if these two other dogs also get sick. This cold and/or cough seems to take a week's incubation, so Troy would not become ill until he's back in Houston with BJ. Cisco is an unknown right now, since he has been around both Maisie and Baillie and is not sick yet. I just hope that elderly Baillie does not succumb (as so many older adults do) to something worse, like pneumonia.