Int'l Ch. Double D's Gentleman George
June 11, 1997 - May 19, 2000
George will be missed in the biggest way! Heart attack & Stroke
took him much too early on his way to a dog show in Merlin, Oregon Indian Mary
Park. When his entry number was called, I tearfully had to answer. deceased.....
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George was a Visitation Therapist with a heart of Gold, being comic relief and
smiles to many and truly the sweetest boy with personality 'PLUS', we are
totally devastated and heart broken.... |
Here is how it happened...
Two wasps (rather their remains) were found in his stomach and the tissue
samples showed that when he swallowed them, they went down fighting, as there
were wasp stings in several places at the very back of his tongue, down his
throat all the way down his esophagus. The report states that anaphylactic
shock from these wasp stings appears to have brought on the chain reaction
leading to heart failure. It was also reported that the anaphylactic shock
can cause the dog's body temperature to spike very high, very quickly (his at
time of death was 109 F), thus leading to the stroke.
Dissection of heart, lungs and other major organs showed that they were healthy
and normal before the stings. "This tragedy was so hard for us to
handle and we had to have answers.", says his owners. We had to know why he
stroked out and had heart failure so suddenly, when a little over an hour
before, he was silly, playful and romping about, as we were backing the last
items needed to take with us in the motor-home.
Please take caution with your pets when wasps and bees
are in the area. These little pest can be deadly!
