My puppy won't eat anymore
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| If she is still taking the antibiotic her tummy may be upset & therefore some fo the reason she isn't eating. |
| Call the vet again. Maybe canned dog food would help. |
| she has only just finished her antibiotics so that may be why. Hopefully she will get her appetite back soon then |
| Any time you give an antibiotic, it helps to give them a probiotic or some yogurt with live cultures. The antibiotics wipes out the good as well as the bad flora in their digestive system. You try to give them at different times. Even adding a little yogurt now if you can get her to eat it would be helpful.
I'd be concerned and call the vet about the still not eating though. What kind of infection did they say she had? Was she a very picky eater before this happened? (Says she who rushed a dog to the vet yesterday for missing ONE meal, no other symptoms, because my dogs don't miss meals. It's in their contract. Oh, and she turned out to have, according to the vet, a rather profound buildup of gas.) Hope your girl starts eating normally soon. Kristine |
Mad Dog wrote: (Says she who rushed a dog to the vet yesterday for missing ONE meal, no other symptoms, because my dogs don't miss meals. It's in their contract. Oh, and she turned out to have, according to the vet, a rather profound buildup of gas.) Hope your girl starts eating normally soon.
Kristine Sounds like me! If my dogs miss one meal I am usually at the vet too. The only time they have ever missed a meal is when they were sick. Must be something in the air here at my place as even the dogs I have in show homes that are picky eaters at home gobble the samed danged kibble up here at my place! Of course maybe my dogs have also learned from observing me  Comes from being raised by "Depression Aged" parents, having 2 brothers & then raising our own 2 boys  If I didn't eat it all & eat it quickly I got in trouble & the food amazingly disappeared either by the brothers or the sons  |
ChSheepdogs wrote: [Must be something in the air here at my place as even the dogs I have in show homes that are picky eaters at home gobble the samed danged kibble up here at my place!
I think you're on to something with the competitive atmosphere. Rescue fosters who come to me as picky eaters usually abandon that in less than a day One look at Belle and Mad probably tells them it's eat or go hungry 
The scary part of having a chowhound is that if they miss even one meal you're convinced it's curtains.  Fortunately my vet has chowhounds too, so she understands.
Kristine |
| I would still be very worried. Even if it is a reaction to the medication, it's still hard to watch.
When our dog, Portage, binged one night (knocked open the kibble bin and tried to eat it all), he ended up with bloat. We rushed him (in an ice storm, of course) to the emergency vet on the other end of town. She opened him up as they couldn't get the tube down his tummy at all. We found out that it wasn't typical bloat. His tummy hadn't flipped, but rather it had overfilled so badly (and then the gas began to build up) and that he had a hugely oversized (and awful looking) liver, and that both the liver and the tummy being so enlarged made it impossible for his diaphragm to contract and allow him to vomit. At the time she didn't know what was wrong with his liver, and we had to decide if we even wanted to go further. We did, of course. She slowly squeezed/worked all the kibble out of his tummy (no incision) and sewed him back up. He was so sick, and so weak, and didn't look like he was even going to make it. We took him home three days later (against the emergency vet's advice) so that if he was going to leave us he'd at least spend his last few days at home. He hadn't gotten any better at the vet. Seven days later he still hadn't eaten a thing and was still very weak. He'd drink a little water but that was it. Our own vet had since taken over his care and was starting to worry too. My mom stayed home wtih him while I was at work, and on the seventh day I came home with a McDonald's cheeseburger (virtually unheard of from his perspective) . I walked in with it, and was overcome by the (in my humble opinion) foulest smell on earth - broiled chicken livers.... in MY OWN HOME. And there, in the living room, with the shine back in his eyes for the first time, was Portage wolfing them down. I know they are supposed to be on their own food, and I abide by that pretty strictly, but I do believe that desperate times call for desperate measures. Maybe you might want to offer something a little more tantalizing. I know in Portage's case his tummy must have hurt so much he didn't even want to consider eating. After the chicken livers (and later on, the patty from the cheeseburger) he was willing to go back to eating his food. We eased him back with small amounts, softened with water, and a few days later he was back to his regular eating habits. He lost eleven pounds in that one week. It was heartbreaking. And two weeks after he was feeling better the emergency vet called with the biopsy results from his liver. It was/is totally benign. He can live an extended life with it and now we know to avoid anything that is hard on his liver, just as a precaution. We also monitor all his levels, and they are all good. That was two years ago. I'm so very glad we decided to continue on with that surgery. She had said she'd never seen a liver so bad, but we certainly weren't ready to give up. Anyway, the point of this long ramble is...you might want to break the rules a little and offer a little something really yummy. I know that's not the "right answer" but I do believe those stinky chicken livers brought our Portage back to us. Good luck to you both. |
| I am sorry you are going through this. Yes, I would have him checked out again. One trick I use with my girls when I see them hesitate about eating is I pour a little bit of milk on their food....not much just enought to hit the first couple of pieces of kibble...it works with the dogs and it works with the cat. lol There is nothing like milk to get their noses going.
I hope your baby feels better soon. |
| contact the vet again, they have some very palatable tinned food, or tuna, any fish, even liver cooked in water in the microwave, leave to cool and offer the jelly that is left in the dish.....keep us posted .. |
| When the furkids won't eat, I always go back to the rice and chicken or beef recipe to jumpstart their appetite. It's actually intended as a post-intestinal surgery diet - bland and low residue. And for post-vomiting and those with diarrhea.
After they start eating it, you can gradually add their regular food in. And the non-ill furkids have to have it too - or they feel deprived. 1 pound hamburger; boiled, drained 1 cup uncooked rice; cooked 2 whole eggs, hard boiled, shelled 2 tablespoons karo syrup, light May substitute skinless chicken for hamburger. Shred meat/chicken. It is critical to drain the fat off, so boiling the meat is recommended. Cook the rice according to directions on the box. One cup of uncooked rice will make approximately 3 cups cooked rice. Mix all the prepared ingredients and refrigerate. Warm before feeding. Ben (a 100 lb Golden) may have 2 cups of the mixture 5-6 times daily for 3 days. When directed, begin mixing the hamburger and rice with his normal food in a 50/50 mixture. Feed 2 cups, three times a day for 3 days. Then go back to regular food and water. |
| thankyou everybody for your advice, she seems to have her appetite back now, and wolfed down all 3 of her meals yesterday. Perhaps it was just the antibiotics upseting her stomach???? |
chaz160189 wrote: thankyou everybody for your advice, she seems to have her appetite back now, and wolfed down all 3 of her meals yesterday. Perhaps it was just the antibiotics upseting her stomach???? Yay!
That sounds like the case. Now we're ready to hear about antics and happy things and pictures! |
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