I'm happy that my youngest Rottie <Kaylee>is doing better this morning!
This is what happened late last week...she started having GI issues Thursday afternoon and into eve. and I was really worried <but didn't think for sure, or I would have been at the vets> that she was bloating during the eve., so I called other dog people including our breeder and gave Kaylee a Gas-X....she had full barf late in the eve., which relieved the bloat concern but not the overall GI worry. She was still acting very droopy and just had very low, sad body language. I woke up at about 4am on Friday morn, because I just had a feeling and she had vomited bile, so I made her come cooked white rice, thinking maybe it was just an indigestion thing due to not having anything in her stomach...and sometimes dogs do get the "morning bile" thing going on...at about 6am, I re-checked her and she had more of the same, so then-
<copied from note to breeder as opposed to re-writing whole thing >
Yesterday I took her over to the clinic and they did bloods and one film; I also managed to get a really “pudding-poop” sample over there for fecal. She was quite shy at the vets so I’m glad I asked for a female vet. She also drooled a bit in the car on the way over and was droopy in the room, and didn’t immediately climb from exam room bench to table, and lay on the floor. At the clinic she got an anti-nausea injection. Last night after we got back, I was able to sneak a Pepcid into a banana piece and pill her but later after several different attempts in different ways, the Metro <-nidizole?> was a no-go, even after hubby cut out a center portion of hot dog and stuffed the Metro in there and re-filled the hot dog. She also started to get drooly again as we fidgeted with the whole thing. I spoke with the techs several times and they said just to leave the Metro for the moment. The second pepcid dose also became a challenge because she got savyy to the whole pill thing.
She was a bit more “typical” later last night but overall as expected, still just wanted to lay on the kitchen floor.
Results from x-ray and bloods were great; fecal just cleared this morning<this is Sat.>. Dx -gastritis. She’s supposed to get a Metronidizole <sp>, Cerrenia<sp> and Pepcid for 5-10 days; Metro sid; others bid. Supposed to start the Cerrenia today.
She seems noticeably brighter this morning and we haven’t had any vomiting since Friday morning. I did a bit of simple obed. With her this morning in an attempt to re-focus her on something else as per the suggestion of another behavioral dept. volunteer at the shelter where we’re involved with behavioral mod. This person also happens to be a vet and she was one of the people I started calling originally but hadn’t been able to speak to til now. She suggested I try little bits of American cheese which will really mold itself around the Metro and make a trail of little cheese balls and play a game with her to get her going with the Metro. Since she seemed more active and actually yelled a bit for the food this morning I decided to try something similar wih the Pepcid <and since it’s not so bitter> I put more cooked turkey then white rice <she’s been picking around the rice anyway> in her dish and put the little Pepcid in it and covered it with more turkey and put a bit of warm water in it. Then I let her have some – which she was very interested in – and then we did a little sits and downs with me holding the bowl, and then I put the bowl down and – she finished it J
Vets have said that it’s possible since she’s so “cleaned out” that she may not have poop for a couple of days but she’s been peeing and drinking and late last night on one of our outside forays she climbed onto a rock-y/rickety old wooden bench that was part of the previous house owner’s garden/landscaping efforts which we never got rid of.
Both girls were fed the same thing on Thursday – raw U.S. whole ground rabbit from a source I’ve used for a few years now, raw egg, canned sardines and each got a raw chicken foot from the same bulk distributor as the rabbit. The canned sardines come closest to being a “new” item – they were a either a different brand or a different version of a brand we’ve used previously - I think, if a different version, I think they were more fatty than I’d seen before. Violet since then has had more rabbit and eggs and she’s acting fine.
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so today she was yelling while big girl was getting her food and is overall acting totally as usual, so I'm quite relieved
This is what happened late last week...she started having GI issues Thursday afternoon and into eve. and I was really worried <but didn't think for sure, or I would have been at the vets> that she was bloating during the eve., so I called other dog people including our breeder and gave Kaylee a Gas-X....she had full barf late in the eve., which relieved the bloat concern but not the overall GI worry. She was still acting very droopy and just had very low, sad body language. I woke up at about 4am on Friday morn, because I just had a feeling and she had vomited bile, so I made her come cooked white rice, thinking maybe it was just an indigestion thing due to not having anything in her stomach...and sometimes dogs do get the "morning bile" thing going on...at about 6am, I re-checked her and she had more of the same, so then-
<copied from note to breeder as opposed to re-writing whole thing >
Yesterday I took her over to the clinic and they did bloods and one film; I also managed to get a really “pudding-poop” sample over there for fecal. She was quite shy at the vets so I’m glad I asked for a female vet. She also drooled a bit in the car on the way over and was droopy in the room, and didn’t immediately climb from exam room bench to table, and lay on the floor. At the clinic she got an anti-nausea injection. Last night after we got back, I was able to sneak a Pepcid into a banana piece and pill her but later after several different attempts in different ways, the Metro <-nidizole?> was a no-go, even after hubby cut out a center portion of hot dog and stuffed the Metro in there and re-filled the hot dog. She also started to get drooly again as we fidgeted with the whole thing. I spoke with the techs several times and they said just to leave the Metro for the moment. The second pepcid dose also became a challenge because she got savyy to the whole pill thing.
She was a bit more “typical” later last night but overall as expected, still just wanted to lay on the kitchen floor.
Results from x-ray and bloods were great; fecal just cleared this morning<this is Sat.>. Dx -gastritis. She’s supposed to get a Metronidizole <sp>, Cerrenia<sp> and Pepcid for 5-10 days; Metro sid; others bid. Supposed to start the Cerrenia today.
She seems noticeably brighter this morning and we haven’t had any vomiting since Friday morning. I did a bit of simple obed. With her this morning in an attempt to re-focus her on something else as per the suggestion of another behavioral dept. volunteer at the shelter where we’re involved with behavioral mod. This person also happens to be a vet and she was one of the people I started calling originally but hadn’t been able to speak to til now. She suggested I try little bits of American cheese which will really mold itself around the Metro and make a trail of little cheese balls and play a game with her to get her going with the Metro. Since she seemed more active and actually yelled a bit for the food this morning I decided to try something similar wih the Pepcid <and since it’s not so bitter> I put more cooked turkey then white rice <she’s been picking around the rice anyway> in her dish and put the little Pepcid in it and covered it with more turkey and put a bit of warm water in it. Then I let her have some – which she was very interested in – and then we did a little sits and downs with me holding the bowl, and then I put the bowl down and – she finished it J
Vets have said that it’s possible since she’s so “cleaned out” that she may not have poop for a couple of days but she’s been peeing and drinking and late last night on one of our outside forays she climbed onto a rock-y/rickety old wooden bench that was part of the previous house owner’s garden/landscaping efforts which we never got rid of.
Both girls were fed the same thing on Thursday – raw U.S. whole ground rabbit from a source I’ve used for a few years now, raw egg, canned sardines and each got a raw chicken foot from the same bulk distributor as the rabbit. The canned sardines come closest to being a “new” item – they were a either a different brand or a different version of a brand we’ve used previously - I think, if a different version, I think they were more fatty than I’d seen before. Violet since then has had more rabbit and eggs and she’s acting fine.
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so today she was yelling while big girl was getting her food and is overall acting totally as usual, so I'm quite relieved
Bott and Frisky,
