Elizavell08
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- Mar 29, 2014
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- Bulldog(s) Names
- Lil Bob
I have a 4 yo bully named Lil Bob.
His entire life he has eaten dry Wellness Large Breed dog food. He has always had allergies. But he licks his pals in particular. They had started to turn brown. The vet said it might be from his food. So we changed to a dry grain free Blue Buffalo kind of food. He started having very soft and frequent stool. The allergies didn't seem to change. So, the vet recommended we change the protein in the food. We cut out chicken and switched to a different version of the dry grain free Blue Buffalo. He ate it for about a month tops. The last few weeks he has had a lot of trouble passing his stool. It got to the point he would strain and make noise.
Needless to say I got worried. Monday and Tuesday there was barely any stool passed. I called the vet and they recommended me putting cooking oil on his food to help with the constipation. I coated his food with oil for two meals. Still nothing. We tried feeding him some apple and banana. By Wednesday morning my plan was to take him to the vet that afternoon. I got home to take him to the vet and he had thrown up all in his kennel. He had thrown up white foaming looking food.
We got to the vet and he did an X-ray and found that he was full of gas. He said that he would give him something to make him pass this within 24 hrs or there was the possibility that his stomach could flip. As soon as we walked out of the vet he started having explosive diarrhea with a redish brown color with an awful smell. He said this was ok and it should be coming out. We got home and the explosive diarrhea continued. He also continued to throw up and became very lethargic and unresponsive. He was moaning and wouldn't walk around or move. He would just look down.
I panicked and paged the vet after hours. We met the vet back at the office and he did another X-ray. He said it looked most of the gas was gone. He didn't know what was going on and why he was still throwing up, ect. He decided to take him home and monitor him for the night incase he needed to do emergency surgery on him.
The next day the vet said the throwing up had stopped, but the explosive blow out diarrhea was still happening and he would not eat. They hooked him up to a drip and started giving him meds. They did a culture and sent it in for the possibility of poison.
I went to the vet right after work and got him to eat a little bit of prescription food they were trying to give him. The vet sent me home with him for the night for me to try and get him to eat more and I would bring him back the next day. The next day the vet hooked him back up to the drip. I picked him up again after work for the weekend.
So, currently he is not throwing up, eating the prescription food and boiled chicken and rice, drinking water, urinating regularly, having diarrhea every time we go out, and responding to me a little better. He is still walking around very slow, not wanting to interact or play, and like I said the diarrhea just won't stop (but it's not blowouts anymore). The culture results still never came in, but the vet is hoping is a bacteria. He is on an antibiotic and some other things for diarrhea that should be working but isn't. Please help!
Update on 03/30/14: He woke up kind do moaning around 4:00 this morning. We went out and he peed and had pure liquid diarrhea and then struggled to push but got nothing. I gave him a half a can of food which he ate most of but will now drink now. He came back to bed and moaned a little while falling asleep.
We went back to the vet today to address his moaning and still current diarrhea. We pumped him with more fluids and gave him a shot for the pain. The vet has pretty much ruled out an obstruction since he hasn't thrown up since Wednesday.
His entire life he has eaten dry Wellness Large Breed dog food. He has always had allergies. But he licks his pals in particular. They had started to turn brown. The vet said it might be from his food. So we changed to a dry grain free Blue Buffalo kind of food. He started having very soft and frequent stool. The allergies didn't seem to change. So, the vet recommended we change the protein in the food. We cut out chicken and switched to a different version of the dry grain free Blue Buffalo. He ate it for about a month tops. The last few weeks he has had a lot of trouble passing his stool. It got to the point he would strain and make noise.
Needless to say I got worried. Monday and Tuesday there was barely any stool passed. I called the vet and they recommended me putting cooking oil on his food to help with the constipation. I coated his food with oil for two meals. Still nothing. We tried feeding him some apple and banana. By Wednesday morning my plan was to take him to the vet that afternoon. I got home to take him to the vet and he had thrown up all in his kennel. He had thrown up white foaming looking food.
We got to the vet and he did an X-ray and found that he was full of gas. He said that he would give him something to make him pass this within 24 hrs or there was the possibility that his stomach could flip. As soon as we walked out of the vet he started having explosive diarrhea with a redish brown color with an awful smell. He said this was ok and it should be coming out. We got home and the explosive diarrhea continued. He also continued to throw up and became very lethargic and unresponsive. He was moaning and wouldn't walk around or move. He would just look down.
I panicked and paged the vet after hours. We met the vet back at the office and he did another X-ray. He said it looked most of the gas was gone. He didn't know what was going on and why he was still throwing up, ect. He decided to take him home and monitor him for the night incase he needed to do emergency surgery on him.
The next day the vet said the throwing up had stopped, but the explosive blow out diarrhea was still happening and he would not eat. They hooked him up to a drip and started giving him meds. They did a culture and sent it in for the possibility of poison.
I went to the vet right after work and got him to eat a little bit of prescription food they were trying to give him. The vet sent me home with him for the night for me to try and get him to eat more and I would bring him back the next day. The next day the vet hooked him back up to the drip. I picked him up again after work for the weekend.
So, currently he is not throwing up, eating the prescription food and boiled chicken and rice, drinking water, urinating regularly, having diarrhea every time we go out, and responding to me a little better. He is still walking around very slow, not wanting to interact or play, and like I said the diarrhea just won't stop (but it's not blowouts anymore). The culture results still never came in, but the vet is hoping is a bacteria. He is on an antibiotic and some other things for diarrhea that should be working but isn't. Please help!
Update on 03/30/14: He woke up kind do moaning around 4:00 this morning. We went out and he peed and had pure liquid diarrhea and then struggled to push but got nothing. I gave him a half a can of food which he ate most of but will now drink now. He came back to bed and moaned a little while falling asleep.
We went back to the vet today to address his moaning and still current diarrhea. We pumped him with more fluids and gave him a shot for the pain. The vet has pretty much ruled out an obstruction since he hasn't thrown up since Wednesday.