Ridgewood Shiloh Shepherds

13/01/2025

Here you go Shiloh people. Get your calendar now

01/01/2025

Happy New Year Everyone!

11/12/2024

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24/09/2024

Bloat, also known as Gastric Dilatation-Volvulus (GDV), is a serious condition that can affect various breeds, especially large and deep-chested breeds like Shiloh Shepherds. It happens when a dog's stomach fills with gas, food, or fluid, causing it to expand. This can be life-threatening if not treated quickly.

Signs to Watch For:

• Restlessness and pacing
• Swollen abdomen
• Unproductive vomiting
• Excessive drooling
• Pale gums
• Rapid breathing or signs of distress

If you notice any of these symptoms, contact your vet immediately! Time is of the essense with bloat, and it's better to be safe than sorry! ❤️

You can find more information on bloat here:
https://www.globalspan.net/bloat.htm

29/08/2024

PIPER HAS A HOME!!!!!

Piper is looking for a forever home. 20 week old female plush Shiloh Shepherd. Winnie/Appa breeding. DOB 4/13/2024 Sweet, friendly girl has been living with breeder since birth. Likes to play in water. Has met cats without a problem. Puppy vaccines (distemper series with Lepto) including rabies and kennel cough are complete. Micro chipped, wormed, health checked/certs, crate trained and well on the way to being house trained (raised in the home). Interested? PM for further information. I will not ship at this age, but willing to HELP with transport if needed.

21/08/2024

We have had a few cases of mycotoxin poisoning recently. Its not a poisoning that folks are generally familiar with, so we thought we'd share the information to raise awareness.-

Ingestion of mouldy food from the bin or a compost pile puts dogs, cats, horses, livestock, and even wildlife at risk for toxicity due to tremorgenic mycotoxins. These toxins may be found in MOULDY bread, pasta, cheese, nuts, or other decaying matter like compost. Clinical signs include vomiting, agitation, incoordination, tremors, seizures, and elevated body temperature. A specific mycotoxin called aflatoxin can even cause liver failure. Be sure to keep mouldy food and compost out of your pets reach!

07/08/2024

Yes this does happen. I had it happen to one of my dogs, luckily I got them a part in time

Sweet 14-week-old Golden Retriever puppy Percy is on the road to recovery after spending some time in our ICU over the weekend! He was an excellent patient and feels better already thanks to some time in our state-of-the-art oxygen kennel. In this photo he had popped his little head out to say hello to our staff during one of his treatments, and we don’t think he could get any cuter!

How Percy ended up spending the weekend with us is an important story that his caring owners allowed us to share to help keep other pets safe. Percy and his big brother were rough-housing, when Percy’s collar got stuck on his brother’s mouth. Percy panicked when he was suddenly stuck, and while twisting around trying to escape he caused his collar to become even tighter around his neck! Thankfully their owner noticed quickly that something was wrong and freed Percy before he lost consciousness. When his owners rushed him to see our ER team, Percy was struggling to breathe, drooling profusely, and very distressed. Radiographs showed that Percy had fluid in his lungs (non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema) caused by the time he spent struggling to breathe. Pain medications and oxygen support quickly helped Percy breathe more comfortably as his body worked to heal from the experience.

The strangulation hazard of dogs playing while wearing collars is a hidden danger that many pet owners don’t know about, but a story we hear with some frequency in the ER. Thankfully Percy’s story has a happy ending, but if his owners hadn’t been there to intervene it could have been tragic. Please, get your pups microchipped so they have a permanent form of identification, and then take those collars off when they’re playing with or interacting with other dogs!

28/06/2024

For PET OWNERS that take their dogs to lakes and creeks, please read this warning from Morgan & Patrick Fleming.

This morning we thought, it’s so hot! Let’s go to the lake! We took our sweet Arya to the lake and had the best day playing ball and swimming around! About 30 minutes later on the drive home, we noticed her making weird noises and she threw up and pooped in the car. We called our vet on the drive and they suggested we take her in. By this point our girl couldn’t even stand. They told us she was in critical condition so we took her to the ER. By the time we got there, she was brain dead. Today was absolutely awful. We lost our fun, loving, and crazy girl to what we can only assume was a lake toxin such as blue green algae. Arya, no dog will ever replace you in our hearts. We already miss you more than you could know. I hope you’re running around like a wild girl with all the other boarder collies in doggo heaven ♥️

17/06/2024

Not much more fun then this on a hot summer day.

17/06/2024

Something a lot of people have never thought about.

Sadly, this heartbroken family lost their beautiful 7 year old Border Collie named Kindle on Wednesday when she suffocated in a chip bag. Wendy Jordan, a professional dog trainer, says, "I can’t write now. It’s too raw. I have warned people for years about Pet Suffocation. I’m a dog trainer/business owner by profession. And today, because I left a chip bag on a table, in an area I thought the dogs didn't have access to but knew they sometimes could get through, my best dog of my pack is gone. She opened the gate to the deck, went up the steps, got the chip bag, took it down the steps, even spilling some of the chips, and then somehow accessed the inside and suffocated. She was right beside my gate where she is used to entering and exiting the yard. I’m devastated. I may never buy a bag of chips again. I used to worry about this when my kids were young, and I warned my kids when they left home with their dogs, and yet one freak accident, and I’m the one it happens to."

Even though someone may already know about pet suffocation and take all safety precautions, accidents can still happen. We can only do our best. Kindle was a very determined pup. Her story will help save other pets from this happening to them. Please help us spread awareness. Thank you.
www.preventpetsuffocation.com