Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Sunday, October 18th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I don’t know whats wrong. She was a stray that we found not too long ago. When we found her she had several scrapes and scratches and gashes. She looked absolutely like a nightmare. I cleaned her up and took her to the vet. The vet said she had demodectic mange, hook worms, and a bacterial infection. She received a dipping for the mange, and was told to come back in a week. She also had some antibiotics which we gave her, and a dewormer pill.
We never took her back to the vet for her other dipping, it was too expensive and my husband didn’t feel like dishing out the money at the time, and we didn’t have the money to do it all over again. We searched for an alternative medicine. We stopped searching because my dog appeared to get completely better, when the vet said she should get worse before she even comes back to them. So we let it slide.
Now she has gained some wait, her skin on her neck has become bald, but not raw looking. Instead theres some nasty goo coming out of it. I’m horrified and have no clue if its from any of her earlier diagnosis, or something new! The wait she’s gained seems unnatural to me, it happened suddenly. I don’t know what to do, and I don’t have the money to take her to the vet right away, and I don’t want to take her to the vet if its just the mange or the hookworms, I can cure those with generic/cheaper alternative medicines. Please give me some information on what this new symptom could be.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 6:03 am
My 1 yr old dog is vomiting yellow fluid & will not eat. From what I read online it could be a number of things. The yellow fluid, i found out, is bile from the stomach. When a dog vomits yellow bile, it’s basicically written off as having bad gastral issues and an overactive stomach acid. Dogs usually vomit first thing in the morning or right after meals or after a long vigorous walk/exercise. So since he’s been vomiting, we’ve shortend his walk to just 1 block.. Now he doesnt seem to want to walk anywhere, or eat anything. He just sits curled in a ball, moving from couch, to floor, to couch every few hours..and only moving to the back door once he needs to urinate. Since he’s at such a young age of 1 yrs old, he’s usually getting himself into trouble by grabbing items off tables so we can chase him.. loves his walks & running & meeting ppl.. and he usually sits by you when you’re eating (hoping you’ll throw him a scrap or two).. But for the past 4 days he’s been moping around, not intrested in food, not intrested in walks, but at least he’s drinking water..
So here’s a basic day to day lately:
1. Friday morning he puked up yellow bile for the first time around 6 or 7am. he went on a walk and was eager to have his breakfast.. but he vomited that up. We went online and thought his symptoms matched up to gastric reflux and we were directed to give him 2 tablespoons of Pepto Dismal (he’s a 55lbs Pitbull) twice a day before mealsand to take him off of his regular dry dog food. We were instrucet to give him a bland diet of boiled rice and/or boiled skinless chicken breast or boiled ground beef. We the ground beef the first day and he seemed okay.. but then he vomited maybe twice more that evening (no beef in vomit). But we noticed a lot of things that werent food in the bile such as sunflower seed shells, bits of plastic/rubber from his toy, hair, some unidentifiable tiny pieces. He pooped a small amount of soft stool (smaller than usual)..
2. Second day he wasnt even thinking about eating. but we gave him Pepto and he was okay.. about an hour or so later we fed him boiled chicken and he gobbled it right up.. he was still a bit inactive adn tired looking so we let him rest. Later on that evening we tried to give him more boiled chicken but he didnt want.. so i tried to hand feed him despite him turning away from me, and he vomited right there. it seemed the smell of the chicken, or the thought of eating make him sickly.. 
3. Third day, no eating whatsoever.. moping around still, we gave him pepto and a few moments later he vomited a tiny bit of pepto, but no bile.. we also bought NutriCal meal supplement for him so he could gain appatite, but it didnt work. But at least he had the nutrients because he began to look very gaunt and sickly.. the third day was his birthday, he could not eat his birthday steak
4. Fourth day no eating, but he has been drinking lots of water and keeping Pepto & NutriCal down.. He’s looking much healthier i think & has actually shown signs of activity (tail wagging, sniffing around) but only for a few moments, then back to moping & napping.. I also noticed he’s been doing alot of standing in one place and staring for about 1-2 minutes before moving to the next spot to nap. He just seems drained of all energy and unintrested in eating still.. I read today that it could be a Lymphoma, but none of his glands are swollen, also he’s a young dog, so this is ruled out almost immediatly.. He did poop a good amount. It was a typical soft stool. There are never any foreign objects in his stool. He’s had his shots so we’ve ruled out Parvo virus and worms..
5. No vomiting today. He’s had NutriCal & a little Pepto in the morning.. lots of napping, some staring.. he’s a bit more alert which is good, but still not intrested in eating. We will try to blend a concoction of boiled chicken & NutriCal to force feed him today because he really needs some food in his system..
Could he not be eating because he’s afraid? Since this is his first time being sick I figure he’s afraid of eating because he doesnt want to vomit…or could it be because he has intestinal blockage and nothing is passing through?
Please help if you can! We really dont have the $200 for a vet visit and multiple tests.. i would like to solve this problem at home, if we can..
Thanks for your time!
