Dog throwing up all the time
Hello we really need some help with our 6 yr. old toy Manchester terrier (female neutered). Starting Christmas Eve she has been bringing up her food (undigested). She will always will eat and is VERY hungry all of the time. She also has battled colitis in the past but that has been controllable buy low doses of metronidazole when it flares up. We have always had to over feed her too because she has a hard time putting on normal weight. She normaly eats a 13oz can of petagree lamb and rice everyday. We have been to the vet 3 times in the past week.Her temp was good, they did an x-ray (looked normal) and a blood test this Friday. Some Liver functions were high MCV was at 73.7 (high 73), Hct was at 62% (high of 55.0%) and Hb was at 19.0 (high of 18.0) all other tests were in range. The vet called us on Friday and said she may have eaten something poisonous or be coming down with some form of canine hepatitis. He also said "That's all his facility can do for my dog" ( this frustrates us as we are not going to just sit back and watch one of our family members die).She is always eager to eat but since these episodes will not drink at all. Only if I fill a cap up of watered down Gatorade will she take a few sips. We started feeding her baby rice and baby food this weekend (and the vet gave us metoclopramide suspension twice a day) and she had done pretty good keeping it down this weekend until last night. We fed her at 6:30 and she woke up at 12:30 to bring up about a 1/4 of her food (she has thrown up just about every night between 12 and 3 am) This is always just undigested food (no bile of foam).Also she moved her bowls last night and aside from being very soft, color looked normal. I hope you can give us some advice my wife and I are very upset and have no idea what to do at this point.She has lost over a pound in the past week. |
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