[nagdu] Ideas to help a sick dog?

[t21114 at optonline.net]

Hi Gary,
I am sorry to hear Bogart is not feeling well. Has anyone mentioned giving him rice and chop meat. That might bind him. Also if he is not drinking enough you can give him some ice cubes.
Marilyn and Anna

----- Original Message -----
From: Gary 
Date: Sunday, September 4, 2011 2:56 pm
Subject: [nagdu] Ideas to help a sick dog?
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 

> 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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