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Yes I believe they can. Ihave just had to put my 7 year old dach. to sleep for what looked like pulmonary edemia. He had been having recurent lung infections for over 3 years, We tested him for Allergies,etc. and nothing ever came up. We did chest xrays, blood work ,ultrasound and still nothing He acted like he had Asthma and would get better then worse and over the years with treatment, he eventually started to gurgle. At the end he was on 10 pills in am and pm, valium,codien, and two inhalers,I looked in his eyes and he told me he was tired and I knew I could not keep him going like this it was not the life he wanted. When the veterinary did a autopsy his lung were filled with a thick stringy mucus. His lungs looked to have multiple abcesses filled with this mucus. This is the only finding so far ,but as anurse this sounds and in hindsight looked like cystic fibrosis. Only time and the pathology report will tell the truth if dog can get cystic Fibrosis

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13y ago

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