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- Jan 8, 2013
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- Boeboe, Bennie Boy and Joey
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Re: Boeboe's had some eating problems lately 
Thanks @My Otis
We're back and this is what we got out of it:
Antibiotic - The vet doesn't know what's going on and she wants to give Antibiotics as a starter route.
Protexin - Probiotic powder to balance her tummy out.
Ulsanic - To help heal whatever caused the blood in the puke. The vet says they have something in their throat that's sensitive to puking... I can't remember what the name of it was
De-wormer - Cos that can cause dogs to feel nauseous...
You know the feeling when you go to the doctor and you basically feel like you'd been better off at home with an aspirin? That's kind of how I feel... She says it's not normal for dogs to puke, and I do agree with that, but she also states that in nature they apparently don't puke when their tummies are empty... I have personally not seen many bulldogs in nature lately, but maybe that's just me... I know for a fact dogs can sometimes puke from an empty tummy, I had a Jack Russel 15 years ago that had to eat special food 3-4 times a day cos if he didn't he would puke. My male bulldog Bennie will also puke if he doesn't eat regularly, but he likes his food so that's usually not a problem.
My opinion is that she feels nauseous when her tummy is empty and then she doesn't want to eat and she ends up eating grass and she pukes. I think there was blood in the puke because of the walk and her panting, her throat got sensitive. We can't take them for walks often, the temperatures here are crazy ,so when we do take them to say they get super excited is an understatement.
So my plan now is to feed her normally morning/evening but also give her something middle of day and just before bed. I normally do this when I have something nice but it's not always I cook something appropriate for dogs so those days I haven't had anything for her. That has to change, I'll make meatballs or something to freeze so I have to give her everyday. It has to be something meaty, she won't eat anything else, she's unbelievably picky.
One thing I thought of just now when I got home is that I covered our fish pond 5 weeks ago cos we got a little chicken... Boeboe used to LOVE drinking from the pond, she would drink from it several times a day. She's definitely not drinking as much from her water bowl as she used to drink from the pond... can it be that that water actually helped her tummy? or is it a coincident?
Boeboe didn't have a fever and she couldn't see or feel anything obviously wrong with her so we're going with this now and hopes for the best. I think the scheduled snack times is what's going to help... She seems fine now, she ate this morning and she's been acting normal, giving stinky eye to the vet workers and ignoring me now cos I was a bad mommy for taking her to that horrible horrible place.
Oh, and I want to add, the bill was 39 USD... The vets up here charge basically nothing.
Thanks @My Otis
We're back and this is what we got out of it:Antibiotic - The vet doesn't know what's going on and she wants to give Antibiotics as a starter route.
Protexin - Probiotic powder to balance her tummy out.
Ulsanic - To help heal whatever caused the blood in the puke. The vet says they have something in their throat that's sensitive to puking... I can't remember what the name of it was
De-wormer - Cos that can cause dogs to feel nauseous...
You know the feeling when you go to the doctor and you basically feel like you'd been better off at home with an aspirin? That's kind of how I feel... She says it's not normal for dogs to puke, and I do agree with that, but she also states that in nature they apparently don't puke when their tummies are empty... I have personally not seen many bulldogs in nature lately, but maybe that's just me... I know for a fact dogs can sometimes puke from an empty tummy, I had a Jack Russel 15 years ago that had to eat special food 3-4 times a day cos if he didn't he would puke. My male bulldog Bennie will also puke if he doesn't eat regularly, but he likes his food so that's usually not a problem.
My opinion is that she feels nauseous when her tummy is empty and then she doesn't want to eat and she ends up eating grass and she pukes. I think there was blood in the puke because of the walk and her panting, her throat got sensitive. We can't take them for walks often, the temperatures here are crazy ,so when we do take them to say they get super excited is an understatement.
So my plan now is to feed her normally morning/evening but also give her something middle of day and just before bed. I normally do this when I have something nice but it's not always I cook something appropriate for dogs so those days I haven't had anything for her. That has to change, I'll make meatballs or something to freeze so I have to give her everyday. It has to be something meaty, she won't eat anything else, she's unbelievably picky.
One thing I thought of just now when I got home is that I covered our fish pond 5 weeks ago cos we got a little chicken... Boeboe used to LOVE drinking from the pond, she would drink from it several times a day. She's definitely not drinking as much from her water bowl as she used to drink from the pond... can it be that that water actually helped her tummy? or is it a coincident?
Boeboe didn't have a fever and she couldn't see or feel anything obviously wrong with her so we're going with this now and hopes for the best. I think the scheduled snack times is what's going to help... She seems fine now, she ate this morning and she's been acting normal, giving stinky eye to the vet workers and ignoring me now cos I was a bad mommy for taking her to that horrible horrible place.
Oh, and I want to add, the bill was 39 USD... The vets up here charge basically nothing.
didn't feel her or anything. I might be a b* now but the vet looks like she's 12 years old and she speaks so softly that you can barely hear what she says. I've been looking around for a bulldog experienced vet, but you can't find one around here. I have super depression over our vet, I really liked him, he wasn't a people person and he was crazy expensive compared to others but he ALWAYS took great care of our dogs and there were never any misdiagnoses or problems. Riaan likes this one, but he's been there more often than me cos we buy the dog food from them, so I guess he'd now better than me.
I actually tried hiding them in a meatball tonight and it WORKED!!! I couldn't believe it
