Dachshund dogs are known as “wiener dogs” for their elongated appearance. But one 4-year-old dachshund named Trevor ended up looking more like one of those giant extra plump hot dogs than a canine.
The poor pup became severely bloated after he developed a rare condition.
“We came down one day and found Trevor in a bad state, he literally looked like he’d blown up like a balloon and we had no idea what had happened,” Trevor’s owner Fran Jennings of Cheshire, England, told Manchester Evening News.
Trevor’s owner Fran Jennings of Cheshire, England, was shocked when she saw her dog suddenly swell up.
He also started to have trouble breathing.
She immediately rushed him to the veterinarian where it was discovered that Trevor had something called subcutaneous emphysema.
“We put him straight in the car and took him to the emergency vets and they had never seen anything quite like it,” Jennings said.
Trevor had a hole in his windpipe causing air to become trapped under the dog’s skin.
This caused Trevor to swell up to about three times his normal size.
“He’d blown up like a balloon,” said Jennings told BBC. “”Whatever it was, it affected his breathing so we had to leave him there while they tried to find out what was wrong.”
His X-rays showed that he would grow bigger every time he took a breath.
“Every time he took a breath, some of the inhaled air escaped through a hole in his windpipe,” Veterinarian Michelle Coward of Beech House Surgery in Warrington.
And this would simultaneously make it harder for him to breathe. Thankfully they were able to quickly help him with a simple procedure.
They basically had to deflate him.
Vets had to release the pressure from under the dog’s skin and had to stitch up a hole in a dog’s windpipe.
“I have never seen a case like this before and it was a new surgery for me. There were no external injuries that would explain how air had got under the skin, so we suspected that an internal injury to the airway could have been allowing the air in,” Veterinarian Michelle Coward of Beech House Surgery in Warrington.
“Surgery was the only way to repair the injury but due to its location, there was a significant risk of complications,” she said.
The family was so relieved to see Trevor turn back to his normal self.
“He looked like a big fat seal. His whole body was like a blob. It was horrible seeing him like that. We had to deflate the air out of him, it was weird,” Jennings’ daughter Jessica said. “But now he’s back to his normal self, chasing the chickens and we wouldn’t have him any other way.”
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