About 4:30 yesterday afternoon I see out of the corner of my eye Missy Beagle fall over, "did she just fall over?" sort of "see" her. Not really seeing it, but sort of catching it I look over and she's blank as blank. I call her and she's not responding....****.
Run over to her and she's got that look in her eye like she's been ko'd. Won't stand up. Won't respond but is coming to.
Mrs, Miss and Boon wrap her up and off to the pet hospital on Anzac Highway, on the way she's taking short / sharp breathes, no tail wagging, no real pep in her normal 8 year old Beagle nutter step.
Hour or so later and we see the vet, long story short and she's got a heart murmur. This can potentially be the early on set of heart disease, but at her age is more likely a murmur. This can slightly in flame the heart making breathing a little more difficult, thus the short sharp breathes.
Low oxygenation when checked so it's likely what I saw was her passing out due to lack of oxygen. Unlikely it's the first time as we all either work or study so she's home alone all day, it's just that I saw this one and we've picked it up.
Animal hospital was good, said we'll need bloods and x-rays done to confirm what's happened and as medication can help with the condition we should go through that process, suggested to us that nothing is likely to change over night so instead of paying 8 o'clock Sunday rates we should get her to our normal vet today and let them know what's happened.
Off to the vet at 3:30 today....
We lost old Beasley back in May and Missy has had the sads, understandably since, Miss Boon had us all in tears last night when she said "She really does have a broken heart"....