My ShihTzu was hit by a car Monday evening and has Pulmonary Contusions- her lungs are severely bruised and she has been in a oxygen kennel now for 38 hours. She is not able to breath outside of the kennel and although seemed to be stable on Tuesday, today (Wednesday morning) she is now doing worse. In the vets words she took one step forward and now 2 steps back. She is almost 2 years old and still is in good spirits. However we are wondering how much time should we take to see if she can recover? I feel I am not being given direction from the vet as they say they cannot really tell if she will recover or not. We want her to recover but she cant live in a oxygen kennel forever. How long should I wait to know she probably will not recover? She also needs hip surgery as her pelvis got popped out of place. But we cannot do anything till her lungs are in better shape. The cost is also very high, and although money is not an issue, I need some guidance on what is normal for recovery and how long to wait or if it is inevitable she will not make it. How long should I give her in the oxygen kennel to show improvement? She is now having some bloody mucus so they gave her antibiotic to prevent phenomena.

My puppy got hit by a car. No broken bones. Broken teeth and a bruised lung. At first her condition was bad but stayed at the hospital for 2 nights. She eats and drinks on her own. Breathing is so much better. She wasn't walking at all but she is now. Only thing is that shes walking a drunk walk and i feel like she can bump into things if not watched. She has head trauma but honestly shes improved do much and is alert of who we are for sure. Should i feel happy and full of hope? Is my puppy on the right track to her recovery.

our dog was running and ran into a plastic box. he immediately started crying but stopped after we picked him up. Over the past 5 1/2 hours he has not been himself. He has slept, probably because of the injury, but has not gotten up to go to the bathroom, eat, or drink. He is breathing but shallowly perhaps because he is sleeping. He has not really gone to the point of crying often, but I just worry that he is not okay. It is too late to take him to a vet, but I worry about sleeping and not knowing how to tell if he is just sleeping or struggling. So ... what next?

My dog feel down the stops yesterday and she vomited shortly after. She is also breathing pretty loud when she is sleeping. We don't know if she is sick or her breathing problem is coming from falling down the steps

I came across a two-months young stray / street puppy suffering from a partially broken lower jaw, caused by some bigger dog around. I kept him at home for four days with myself and took him to vet everyday for painkillers, anti-biotics, wound cleaning and other medicines. The puppy was very active and cheerful and was eating properly. On the fifth day, upon the completion of his course of medicines, I dropped him back with his mother. Next morning, when we went to check how he was doing, we found him in shock. He was again attacked by some dog that morning and had his lung ruptured / suffered hemorrhage (he had air under the skin, belly was hanging on one side and bluish, has air bubble-like forming on the side of stomach on breathing and was in a state of shock). I took him to the regular vet who informed me that it was a bad case of lung rupture and the puppy wasn't in a condition to be operated upon and gave him drip, medicines (painkillers etc.) and informed me that he won't survive for more than 48 hours. I thought of giving it another try and took him to a private clinic where they said that those air bubbles can be be treated eventually and if their is blood in lungs, the puppy has been given medicine to bring that out of the system and asked us to bring him back next morning. By this time, it had been around 10-11 hours of the injury. In next one hour, I tried to feed him cerelac and some water with the help of a syringe, which he managed to have (struggled a lot with swallowing, but had - I can say this as nothing except a few drops fell out of his mouth). But by then, the condition of the puppy at home started deteriorating rapidly. His eyes were closing, every touch was causing him to scream and try to bite, he was not able to stand, was highly disoriented and once fallen, wasn't able to get up. I took him to the same clinic again at almost midnight, and asked the doctor if it looked like rabies. This was my biggest mistake. As the doctor and two other helpers, held on to it and made him stand on the table to examine. the puppy was screaming in pain and of course, very agitated upon being touched. He couldn't stand properly and was very shaky, wobbly while trying to stand. The medical team by now was so apprehensive of touching him that the puppy even fell off the table (higher than an average ironing board) but they didn't touch and stopped him from falling. With that swollen, bluish belly by now, I can't even fathom the pain the poor little one must have felt. The doctor convinced us that it had rabies and we eventually had to put him down. After the dog was no more alive, the doctor checked for what was under the skin causing crackling. It was air under the skin and blood in lungs. While researching online about the symptoms of pulmonary contusion and/or lung hemorrhage, I can see that all this happened to him, which we (including the doctor) mistook (maybe) for rabies. I am so heartbroken, thinking that he could have lived. But by the end, his eyes were closing, he was fainting, collapsing and in immense pain, that I can't even be sure if he would have survived. And all I am left now with is guilt, pain, heartache and trauma of seeing him suffer so much in his last few hours. I would please like to hear from you what it could be, so that I am more aware in future if such a case comes up.

4 days ago my dog was his by a car. He broke his right front leg and suffered a pulmonary Contusion. They kept him over-night to keep an eye on his lungs and was sent home the next day. Recently he's been coughing, it sounds dry, and Has been heaving like he's trying to bring something up. He has an appointment in 5 days to change his bandages. Should I wait until then to mention the cough or is it pressing enough to call and move up my appointment.

Over the last two days my dog has been having pain when being picked up or getting on and off furniture..I noticed he is sensitive around his ribs. Today he barked and it sounded like he was in pain while doing so. More trama.. just a hard plop he did in his bed so I am thing bruised ribs.. no other symptoms.