Help! Does anybody have any advice?
I have an 11 month-old female. She's not food motivated, but we've gotten into a good rhythm of feeding (twice a day) and she'd been doing really well eating all her food on a regular schedule.
On either Wednesday or Thursday (5 or 6 days ago) she threw up sometime late afternoon/before dinner. I didn't think much of it -- dogs throw up sometimes...maybe she ate some grass or triggered gag reflex from a toy, etc., etc. Who knows. Not a huge deal. She was acting totally normal otherwise, and ate her dinner that evening like normal.
Then Thursday night (/Friday morning, technically) around 3am she threw up all her dinner in her crate. I cleaned it up, let her go out, then she went back to sleep.
In the morning (Friday, August 26) she didn't eat her breakfast, and then she threw up again that afternoon. This time it was mostly just stomach liquid. All throughout this time I had not noticed any diarrhea. She also didn't eat her dinner Friday evening.
On Saturday morning (Aug 27), she threw up again, and still did not eat anything. Again, I still had not noticed any diarrhea and she still drank water.
After she threw up Saturday morning, we took her to the vet. They did a parvo test, which came back negative. They couldn't feel anything abnormal about her stomach, so they did x-rays to see if there was something she swallowed. They didn't see any blockage on the x-rays, only some gas bubbles in her tummy -- which could be indicative of other blockage they couldn't see, or simply of an upset stomach.
Other options were to do blood work, do an overnight barium exam (where they give her barium, something that shows up super bright on a series of x-rays to see how it moves through her), or to assume it's just some sort of stomach bug and treat it with antibiotics. So, after six hours at the vet (yes, it took THAT long!!) we got sent home with some Cerenia (anti-nausea pills) and Metronidazole (antibiotics).
As of today (Tuesday, August 30th) she still won't eat. I've gotten her to eat some by hand feeding her, kibble by kibble, her regular food (Hill's Ideal Balance chicken and rice) mixed with canned chicken and rice dog food (I think the brand was Pure Balance). I'm glad that at least I'm getting some food in her, but she's still not eating the amounts she should be, and she won't eat anything unless I hand feed it to her. Also, of course she's not used to the canned food, so it gives her diarrhea. :headbang:
Does anybody have ANY input or advice? How to make her eat? What could be wrong with her?
She's fully up to date on all of her shots, her Heartgard prevention pills, and flea/tick medicine.
I have an 11 month-old female. She's not food motivated, but we've gotten into a good rhythm of feeding (twice a day) and she'd been doing really well eating all her food on a regular schedule.
On either Wednesday or Thursday (5 or 6 days ago) she threw up sometime late afternoon/before dinner. I didn't think much of it -- dogs throw up sometimes...maybe she ate some grass or triggered gag reflex from a toy, etc., etc. Who knows. Not a huge deal. She was acting totally normal otherwise, and ate her dinner that evening like normal.
Then Thursday night (/Friday morning, technically) around 3am she threw up all her dinner in her crate. I cleaned it up, let her go out, then she went back to sleep.
In the morning (Friday, August 26) she didn't eat her breakfast, and then she threw up again that afternoon. This time it was mostly just stomach liquid. All throughout this time I had not noticed any diarrhea. She also didn't eat her dinner Friday evening.
On Saturday morning (Aug 27), she threw up again, and still did not eat anything. Again, I still had not noticed any diarrhea and she still drank water.
After she threw up Saturday morning, we took her to the vet. They did a parvo test, which came back negative. They couldn't feel anything abnormal about her stomach, so they did x-rays to see if there was something she swallowed. They didn't see any blockage on the x-rays, only some gas bubbles in her tummy -- which could be indicative of other blockage they couldn't see, or simply of an upset stomach.
Other options were to do blood work, do an overnight barium exam (where they give her barium, something that shows up super bright on a series of x-rays to see how it moves through her), or to assume it's just some sort of stomach bug and treat it with antibiotics. So, after six hours at the vet (yes, it took THAT long!!) we got sent home with some Cerenia (anti-nausea pills) and Metronidazole (antibiotics).
As of today (Tuesday, August 30th) she still won't eat. I've gotten her to eat some by hand feeding her, kibble by kibble, her regular food (Hill's Ideal Balance chicken and rice) mixed with canned chicken and rice dog food (I think the brand was Pure Balance). I'm glad that at least I'm getting some food in her, but she's still not eating the amounts she should be, and she won't eat anything unless I hand feed it to her. Also, of course she's not used to the canned food, so it gives her diarrhea. :headbang:
Does anybody have ANY input or advice? How to make her eat? What could be wrong with her?
She's fully up to date on all of her shots, her Heartgard prevention pills, and flea/tick medicine.