Vash is Sick and I'm not sure I trust his new vet.

I thought I would post a follow up. Last night. I gave vash his meds, and about a half hour later I found him munching on my baseball hat and the top button was missing...so he had to throw it up.

Dispite his best efforts to derail getting better it looks like the medication is working. He wouldn't poop on our morningwalk so I took a special trip home at lunch where he did poop and it was solid enough to bag.

This is good news of course, I'm just hoping the medicine isnt masking a more serious underlying issue that comes back once we stop taking it.
 
Good news! Thanks for the update. Hope Vash continues to improve and you find a good vet that you'll both like.
 
Happy to hear Vash is starting to feel better. Just a simple reminder my vet always gives me. Even though the diarhea has stopped give the full course of the antibiotics.
 
I am just getting to this thread, as Dandie was going through almost the same thing as Vash. She is also young, 16 months. Her poop had visible red blood clots in it, and I had noticed a change in her a couple of days before.

My vet prescribed the same antibiotic. That antibiotic works in anaerobic environments so it is great for the GI tract.

You said you were switching him to California Natural. What were you switching him from? Just wondering about the food, to see if maybe they were eating something similar.

We went on a hike on Sunday. I am guessing that since her symptoms started on Monday, my girl got into something on our hike that we didn't see.

I am so glad that Vash is feeling better now.
 
danisgoat said:
I am just getting to this thread, as Dandie was going through almost the same thing as Vash. She is also young, 16 months. Her poop had visible red blood clots in it, and I had noticed a change in her a couple of days before.

My vet prescribed the same antibiotic. That antibiotic works in anaerobic environments so it is great for the GI tract.

You said you were switching him to California Natural. What were you switching him from? Just wondering about the food, to see if maybe they were eating something similar.

We went on a hike on Sunday. I am guessing that since her symptoms started on Monday, my girl got into something on our hike that we didn't see.

I am so glad that Vash is feeling better now.
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I was changing Vash over from Wellness super 5 mix (adult formula) to California natural because it's now more difficult for me to get wellness.

Vash's stool was soft while transitioning and I think this illness just managed to hop in at a time where I didn't notice right away. 6 days into the transition the diarreah started and I attributed it to the food not an illness, he threw up a couple times but again i attributed it to him throwing up things he wasn't supposed to eat in the first place (my carpet) so I switched him to chicken and rice. The next morning I got an early morning wakeup call from his crate "err err err" followed by complete loss of bowel/bladder control while I was putting on his leash.

A day later he had lost the ability to "hold it" for any period of time, and he started vomiting as well. And thats when I realized it wasn't simply food related stuff that would clear up in a day or two so I decided to high tail it to the vet.
 
danisgoat said:
Ok!

So maybe it was something he picked up, rather than ate.
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That's what I'm guessing. I do really think it's pretty odd for dogs miles and miles apart to share similar symptoms and treatments for a sickness though.

I tossed the bag of california natural and immediately switched Vash back to wellness though just in case.
 
jerros said:
That's what I'm guessing. I do really think it's pretty odd for dogs miles and miles apart to share similar symptoms and treatments for a sickness though.
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I thought the same thing, that is why I inquired about what you were feeding, although I really don't believe mine was from the kibble since Chloe is perfectly fine and continues to be fine.
 
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