RIP Sniper Vom Ausland

[shelms488]

I hate that this is my first post. but i just now found this website. a little about myself. I owned 3 GSD's and one has passed. If your interested in knowing about the others I will post that in a more appropriate place on here. but the one I lost was 6.5 month old Sniper Vom Ausland.
I will post a picture of him with this. He was a big sweetheard and even with his short time here had found a place in everyone who met him heart. I had had him since he was 8 weeks old and I miss him alot. I guess it wouldn't hurt to explain what happened and maybe someone with have some Idea on what happened to him.

It was Saturday 2011 January 22 and I got off work at 2 like usual and went home and picked up the pups to take them to the park because it was a unusually nice day for January, mid 60's and sunny. so we were at the park from about 3-5:30 and came home fed the dogs like normal took them out to go potty and put them in the crate so i could go get some food myself. I left for about 20-30 minutes and got back about 7 and noticed that sniper was breathing really heavy and labored so i thought he might need some water or his collar might have gotten too tight. so i went to the crate to remove his collar and left to go get him some water. i get back and he is laying in the kennel unresponsive still breathing heavily. i set the water down and open the kennel to see if he wants any and he just layed there. so i went to move his snout to the bowl to see if he might lap some of it up and that is when i noticed he was bleeding from his nose and mouth. I immediately called the vet and had him meet me at his office. he said he didn't know what it could be he thought it might be poison but couldn't tell for sure. he gave him a shot of vitamin K, atripine and somthing else I cant remember what it was. He told me to take him home and keep him separated from the other dogs and just observe him the rest of the night and if he wasn't better by morning to bring him back. So i get him home and layed a dog bed in the bathroom and layed him on it. I left the room fro approx 15-20 minutes and came back and he wasn't hardly breathing like 1 breath every 10 seconds and i could hear his heart beating really fast from across the room. i went to him and called the vet back and was about to take him back to the vet when he stopped breathing and his heart stopped at 11:22PM. It was an extremely hard night on me. and if i had known that the vet could have done a necropsy i would have had that done but by the time i found out that it could be done I had done froze him to keep the body from decaying.

So the rest of the pertinant information is it wasnt the food because his food came from the same food that the other puppies food came from. he was either in the kennel, crate, or under my direct supervision whether it was at the park or in the car. there was nothing around the kennel they could have gotten ahold of. any thoughts.

Thanks in advance for any help or concerns that might be addressed

S. Helms

In loving memory of Sniper Vom Ausland 2010-07-02 to 2011-01-22 You will be missed.

[KZoppa]

i'm really sorry you found the forum this way. and i'm even more sorry for your loss. Its never easy and i cant imagine it would be especially with one so young. He was a very handsome boy.

[Micky]

so so sorry for your loss

[MikeyMerciless]

I'm sorry... R.I.P. Sniper Vom Ausland.

[JakodaCD OA]

I am so very sorry for your loss, he was a beautiful puppy I would have done a necropsy because for me, I just would have wanted to know ..

[GSDBESTK9]

Very sorry for your loss.

[Whitedog404]

Oh, how sad. Very sorry that you lost that sweet thing.

[1sttimeforgsd]

Beautiful boy, so sorry for your loss.

[Sunstreaked]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[MrsMiaW]

So sorry for your loss. It is always heartbreaking, but even tougher when they are so young.