Today I fed the light morrning breakfast I alwasy feed and thaen lock tehm up so no excersice after the meal! I went up to my computer to do smoe works and then two hours later I go downstarirs to meet the dogs and I find my "Donna" (Amber Southernwind Donna)with a super distented stomach..gosh again another bloat!!! This one was really BLOATED!!! Not like my otehr one Precious (Katzenblut Southern Thriller) that showed only a small pouch....this one WAS kkkBLOATED!!!!! i INMEDIATELY PUT 3 CC OF DEXAMETHASONE IN HER VEIN AND LIED HER UPSIDE DOWN in the floor and swinged her from side to side, I saw no improvement so I rushed her to the Vet praying she could get there alive, I live up in the mountains and there are 100 curves before getting to the city, I made my curves as fast as I could just praying called to vet to rush her in and when I open teh crate..SHE HAD DEFLATED!!!! THE STOMACH TURN TO THE CORRECT SIDE AND THE GAS WAS GONE!!!! WOW I had never been so exited!!!! I couldn't believe it, the Vet looked at me and todl me are you sure..Gosh Sure I 'm sure take the x rays to be sure and so he did, he still saw some gas but the stomach was in the correct position again!!!!! This had to be the Angels!!! WOW!! I left her anyway in the Vet to do Blood samples and keep her there, but he just called and sayd she is doing fine and just ate a tap of ID (Science diet)..WERE WE LUCKY!!!! Ceci Martinez Southernwind Kennels FCPR Judge Affiliated member of the FCI http://www.geocities.com/ceciliamart2001/ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2004. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================