[nagdu] Ideas to help a sick dog?

[Janice Toothman]

Hi Gary,
I know when Destiny wasn't vomiting. The vet said to give her smaller 
meals- about five times a day. It was a drag. But it helped. Since she 
was eating dry dog food I mixed it with water.
See if that helps.
I know there is nothing worse than having a sick dog and having the worry.
Destiny has inflammatory bowel syndrome so she has diarrhea  fairly 
regularly as part of the syndrome. It is a pain to try and pick up into 
the plastic poop  bags.
I will be praying for Bogart and hope things work out.
Janice and Destiny (in Retraining)

On 9/4/2011 3:00 PM, Gary wrote:
> Hello everyone:
>
> Well poor Bogart still isn't doing so wonderfully. He started having full
> diarrhea in the middle of the night Thursday. We were having to go out about
> every 2-3 hours. By Friday night nothing much was coming out of him. Nothing
> that could be felt with a pick up bag anymore. Saturday morning he had a
> couple laps at his water dish but that was all.
>
> I took him to the vet and temp is fine, abdomen is fine, eyes sparkling and
> tail a wagging. The vet gave him a couple of spoonfuls of the canned food
> they have that is supposed to be easy to digest with some water and he ate
> the food and drank the water. She tried to get  a stool sampl from his bum
> but he is just too emptied out so they couldn't get enough to do any tests.
> We can't gather enough at home either.
>
> We came back home and I was able to get him to drink some water and he ate
> half of one of those cans of food as per doctors orders. So I was  thinking
> things are on the up side but I don't think he has drunk hardly any water
> and hasn't eaten any food since then. Even put some enticing things with it.
>
> Poor bogart. I had told him he needed to lose a bit of weight since he
> gained 4 pounds in the past 3 months so he has gone over board and lost 1.5
> pounds in a week.
>
> Anyway, if anyone has any ideas of how to get bogart eating a little bit
> that would be helpful.
>
> Thanks
> Gary
>
>
>
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