Need some help with this ASAP
Anyway about three days ago Libby started throwing up, diarea, laying down just not feeling well. The neighbor became worried since Libby has a bad habit of eating things especially dish rags even though they stay hidden now or in the sink where she does not get to. She had previous surgery because it became blocked after eating an oven mit. Libby went through all kinds of test including a barium test and it showed no blockages. Blood work came back fine. After keeping her overnight the vet let her come home the next morning thinking it is most likely colitus. Oh, she would not poop at the vets. Since our dogs usually do not go potty while on leash we talked and though it would be a good idea for Libby to run around in back for a while and to have privacy to poop. Which she did, when she did the stool had blood, red blood, off to the vet she went again. It has been two days and Libby will not pee or poop. Sorry I know she is not an OES but she is like part of my family we watch each other dogs, she lets Phoebe swim in her in ground pool and I love Libby dearly. It is getting so scary and we are at the extreme emergency point. |
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Poor Libby  Did your vet suggest an xray at all since Libby isn't peeing or pooping at all?
My Annie just had poop in her stool a month or two ago. The blood in her poop totally freaked me out and off to the vet we went. Nothing showed up in her blood tests either. Since she was pooping, the vet said she liiely didn't have a blockage and probably ate something which caused some gastrointestinal upset. He said that a little blood in the poop was okay. She ate ID prescription dog food until the issues were cleared up and now she's fine. I hope Libby gets better soon. |
| The did a barium x ray and it showed nothing. It so crary Christine is crying her eye's |
| Right now Libby needs rest, restricted diet, and if she's not drinking yet, IV for fluids. Whatever caused this problem may have already passed, literally, but the damage done still needs to heal. Or it could be the problem has not yet manifested itsself to where vet med can find it.
Libby needs time and nursing. Hopefully she'll be up and bouncing around the two yards soon. It's OK for uprights to be worried, it's our job. |
| Was she just vaccinated? |
Poor Libby! 
I hope she's feeling better soon. |
| Dogs do have colitis, I didn't realize that until recently a friend went through a very similar episode with her dog. The dx was the same and sure enough after lots of tests and vet bills it spontaneously cleared.
Good Luck! |
| Libby will come home tomorrow. They found a yes just one string from a rope toy in her intestinal track which had to be removed. It had actually wound itself around the intestine. Poor Girl. She got progressively worse and they opted to do surgery to find out the reason.
Needless to say I am throwing away every rope toy I have in my house. |
| Oh dear...poor Libby! Bless her heart - I am so glad they were able to find it and fix the problem. Lots of TLC for her for the next few weeks!! |
| Oh my! Glad they got to the bottom of it. I'll throw out our rope toys as well. If a big Great Dane could get that ill from it... |
 OH MY!!!!!!!!!!! |
| I'm glad she is ok... wow... scary! |
| Shhhh, don't tell Mulligan, he loves his ropes.
He used to chew on them trying to eat the strings, but consitency of saying "no cookies", taking it away, and replacing it with a bone finally stopped this. It took a long time of never leaning him alone with a rope anywhere, which wasn't easy, because he has lots of them! We were VERY lucky to be able to redirect that behavior. |
| Phoebe loves them too but they are been placed in the trash and garbage picked up today. Too scarry for me. Phoebe can be a booger sometimes, now I have to figure out how to hide shoelaces. she carry's shoes around by the laces but has not chewed on them yet, thank goodness
I promise not to tell Mulligan |
| We had to do investigative surgery with our cat once because he ate a tiny hair thing. He recovered fine. |
| Poor Libby and family and friends. Get well soon. |
| Libby came home she looks like she lost 15 pounds but her personality is the same. I made her a welcome home gift of homemade chicken broth and rice. So the weight will be back on soon. It was so good to see those big happy eyes again and get those big wet sloppy licks. She has to wear a cone until the stiches come out and Phoebe just can't figure out what that thing is on her head.
She is a restricted in activity right now and Phoebe just can't understand why she can't run and wrestle with her friend. So she just barks at Libby then runs about 4 feet turns around and barks ar her some more. I thinks she is telling her "come on lets play". Libby and Phoebe are only 9 months apart in age so the activity level is extremely high for the two of them. A few weeks and they will be back to normal. Thank you all for your concern. |
| Yay for Libby coming home!
Boo for coneheads. |
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