Unfortunately for us Maia has never done well with chicken, she loves it and eats it but it gives her diarrhea and seems to mess up her over all health. We did blood work again and her liver enzymes decreased by 30% which is great! Her actual health though is not so good so that is bad. We can get her to eat which is good, but the food control is not great salmon, ham(boiled a few times to remove the salt), breaded cauliflower, Mac and cheese. Whatever we can get her to eat. It’s crazy! We have her booked with a chiropractor to check her nerve function and we are ready to get prednisone going if it is ibd. We are working closely with our vet daily, she currently is on metronidazole and amoxicillin and gabapentin. Thursday I thought we were going to lose her and she has rallied. I hate optimism as I don’t do well with a broken heart but I am hoping for the best right now. She is on 2 billion probiotic per day as well. Every bite of food I can get into her I think, ok 1 more day at least. If I have to spend all day hand feeding her, I will. She is finally sleeping and twitching a little less! She is going up and down stairs ok, not great but ok and she is no longer falling over. We are far from out of the woods but I have seen some small improvements. Thank you all for your words, encouragement, advice and stories of what you have gone through. It is tremendous to me how kind you are. Thank you for taking some time out of your day and trying to help! We so appreciate it. Mai Mai means the entire world to us and every word, suggestion, or story we take into account and thank you so much for being such a loving wonderful community. With lock down and a sick pup we feel quite overwhelmed, so thank you!
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Please let us know what your regular vet finds.
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well, my B started vomiting everything… and was just weak in general, she had no blockages after a x ray and a barium swallow. turned out she was septic and had to be put on a massive amount of anti biotics. Make sure you run a full blood panel and check the white blood cell count!
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My first Basenji got deathly ill in 1977 on a camping trip eating old rotten food off the ground. Throwing up, blood coming out of the anus, extremely dehydrated, etc. It was the bacteria. It had to stay the weekend at the town vet. Came out of it fine.
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Please keep us posted…((Hugs)) to you and I'm keeping him in my thoughts and prayers...
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Cody is 7 1/2 and until now very healthy. Since he was given fluids last night I think that should hold him until I get him into the regular vet today. No diarrhea, he did poop a little in the parking lot of the medvet, and it had something red in it (it was dark out so I couldn't see it well), and pee'd a little. I just don't think he has anything in his system to come out. Once I get home this afternoon from work to evaluate him and see if he has perk'd up any. The regular vet is on stand by (an luckly is open late tonight)
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Ok just spoke to the Vet again. They just got the records from the emergency vet. Definately brining Cody in this afternoon b/c he is still vomiting and the medication given to him should have stopped that. Thanks everyone for the suggestions and support. I will update when I get back from the vet.
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Bless his heart. I will keep the two of in my thoughts today…I hope he is Ok and that he makes a quick come back.
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Bloodwork will show how his organs are doing which can also give the vet an idea where to look with the ultrasound. X-rays are not very good at seeing soft things that dogs may have eaten and are causing blockages without the barium.
Good luck at the vet today, keep us posted.
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Update on Cody. Took him to the vet yesterday afternoon. After an ultrasound and a battery of test. My vet confirmed no blockages and the blood work came back normal. All his is organs are functioning. She (vet) believes he ate something rotten (food, animal?) and has gastroenteritis. Which as my vet said is basically doggie food poisoning. Her main concern that he wouldn't stop vomiting. So she gave him a shot of Pepcid, and a powerful anit-nausea shot. I came home with powerful antibodics, pro-boticis(same stuff as in activia yogert) more anti nausea meds, a case of can dog food formulated for dogs that have gastroenteritis, and instructions to buy Pepcid AC to give him.
He did eat about teaspoon of the can food this morning. Vet says to go very slow b/c he hasn't had food in his stomach for so long we don't want to shock his system. My husband is home most of the day today so he will feeding him very small portions throughout the day.
Now to figure out how to pay the hefty credit card bill for all the vet/meds etc.
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Again thanks to all for your support and suggestions. I really appreciated being able to post and reading your responses.
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I am glad you had all this test done to rule out something more severe, having Gastrenteritis is bad enough. Hopefully Cody will be on the mend sooner than you can say yeah..
My Otis has some diarrhea awhile back and it kept having it for over a week and half He ended up losing almost 2 lbs in three days…..finally after $$ of tests he was diagnosed with the same thing sort of. Antibiotics, probiotics and a wormer (why?) made him much better within 24 hours and almost back to normal in 48.
Keep us updated, and know that y'all are in our thoughts. It is tough to see you pet ill and not know how to make it better.. -
Again thanks to all for your support and suggestions. I really appreciated being able to post and reading your responses.
I'm glad it was nothing extremely serious. At least this is something that you can treat and his immune system will fight it off. I know the cost can always be frustrating, but for some reason we don't seem to blink when paying the bill. At least I don't, you know it's necessary.
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Hope Cody is feeling much better soon, poor boy.
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Ok, still having problems. Cody is still not eating. after getting anti-nausea medication, antibodics and I just started him on Pepcid today. He is still throwing up yellow bile. He is drinking water. I have tried everything. The food the vet sold me (can food) cheese, yogert, peanut butter. Any ideas. He won't even lick food. I have already decided if he's not eating by monday he's going back to the vet. Does anyone else have ideas for food to try to entice him. He basically has a bad case of food poison.
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Poor Cody. I can not believe he is still not eating..
Have you tried any soup? My dogs love broth and soupy stuff in general, and chicken noodle soup in particular..I know it is high sodium but just to entice him, why not? Hot dogs, lunch meat…I'd try anything I have in my fridge/pantry. At this point I would be desperate. How long has it been since he ate last? With no food in their stomachs quite a few B's vomite bile/yellow foamy stuff..they don't handle an empty stomach very well.. -
Our vet had us give Jaycee Mylanta 1/2 teaspoon every 4 to 6 hours when she got sick. I would boil some chicken in chicken broth. Tear up only chicken no skin into little little bites. See if little one will look at that also whats good is baby diet for when they are throwing up or other end. Rice,Dry Toast,Bananas. I would use baby food Bananas maybe just maybe Cody will lick those up. Good luck let us know.
Rita Jean
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Thanks for the suggestions. Normally cody loves bananas, so I will see if I can get some baby food bananas. My vet told me in no uncertain terms NO HOT DOGS. I have boneless skinless chicken breast I can cook in broth and make bite size. I also have some cream of chicken soup that I can thin out.
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Have you tried some ground chicken or turkey, boiled in water? Pour off the water/fat mix with rice (white is easier to digest). The main thing is to limit the fat and let the "gut" settle down… feed small amounts... 3 or 4 times a day...
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I know when I was a child my mother just to give our Westie, white rice and plain boiled white fish(any type, but she used cod), it is very easy to digest. So I am with Tanza on the plain chicken and rice as well as any type of babyfood. I know hot dog is very greasy and not good at all for dogs, BUT if he hadn't eaten and just needs an "appiteaser" it might work. I feel for you and Cody.
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Ok, I boiled a boneless chicken breast in chicken broth. shredded the chicken fine and poured the broth over it. He drank some broth but didn't eat the chicken. Got him to go out and urinate and he came back in a drank some water. Kept the chicken/broth mixture and will try again tomorrow. I will also go out and get baby food tomorrow and try that. He seems to try everything once and then not try it again.
