Do we go to the vet or not??

[Sheryl]

ah yes, the dying swan act   You know, in all the time of taking Chloe to the vets (and that was in the hundreds!), she never actually looked ill and would spin round in a frenzy   After a while they knew that I knew when she was sick but for a while I got the old 'she looks fine to me' speech......

[Helen]

If she's fine in herself, then maybe she's thinking about coming in season   

Oh please don't say that    I'm hoping that she is going to be a late bloomer like Mary's Lottie  Maybe better start checking lady bits now then 

I've struggled to find a food that she would eat although I haven't wanted to chop and change too much for obvious reasons. We discovered early on she will not eat dry food even when its moistened so tried various tinned foods before settling on Davies chubs which she seemed to enjoy more than any other. She has been fed this for a good few weeks now so it might be that she is simply going off it but she even turned her nose up at sardines and gravy bones    I have come home to two piles of diarrhoea which I think are from her (a bit too small to be from Disney I think) so will definitely err on the side of caution and take her along tomorrow.

At the minute she is beating the living daylights out of Aspen so she definitely doesn'tr appear to be under the weather. would be much easier if she would do the dying swan act 

oh gawd she sounds just like jarvis was at that age...he was a right b****r to a) feed  and b) to find food that agreed with him and c) he steadfastly refused kibble and d) we tried very hard not to chop and change foods too.....and we had a re-occuring icky bottom syndrome (but full of beans....).  only difference is he's not likely to come into season

the good news is he's much better at 18 months (not long to wait  ) and now has a healthy appetite and is on 'mostly' barf with a bit of arden grange and naturediet.

(and he went off sardines and gravy bones as well  )

good luck, hopefully just a 'blip' with her tummy - I would get her checked out if you're going to the vets anyway.

[Joelf]

I would probably go to the vet,if only for my own peace of mind.

[Nicola]

I don't tend to rush Alfie and Tilly to the vets, bad mother that I am. Unless they were really being ill and had the runs for more than a full day and were looking under the weather I'd just starve them for a day then try scrambled egg or chicken and rice and see how they went on that. If it's just a bug it'll pass through and I'd rather not give them anitbiotics they don't really need and if it's more serious then that would be apparent in the way they were acting.

God, please don't report me to the doggy social services... they are never sick anyway! 

[*Jay*]

I am getting a bit better at not rushing them off to the vets for the smallest thing anymore    A few weeks ago Disney had a tummy bug and had the squits for a week which I was just treating with pro-kolin. Just as I started to panic and thought I had better take him to the vet before I got reported, it cleared up 

Jersey had a couple of mouthfuls this morning and 3/4 of her afternoon meal............the result of this is the most foul smelling diarrhoea. It really is rank 

[jools]

Think she does need to see the vet, Gill....doesn't sound right. poor wee Jersey

[silkstocking]

Hope Jersey gets on at the vets okay tonighte Gill xxxxxxxxx

[supaspaniel]

Hope Jersey gets on at the vets okay tonighte Gill xxxxxxxxx

ditto 

[Mich]

Hope she is all ok

[*Jay*]

The vet thinks she has been incubating an infection, especially as Disney now also has diarrhoea pouring from him.  There was no obstruction felt when palpating her tummy and her colour is good. Her insides are very gassy apparently so the vet has given her a steroid injection for the inflammation and to stimulate her appetite, and a long acting antibiotic injection. If she is no better by Saturday, I have to take her back and the vet was talking about x-raying her  Disney has to go in too if he is no better.

[Helen]

ewwwww disney!

poor pooches    as penel says i think there are a few nasty bugs going around, so hope they recover really quickly.

get well soon disney and jersey, it may be chicken and rice for you!  (bet jersey will actually really love that  )

[Mich]

Awwwww bless hope they both improve soon

[silkstocking]

Awwww poor darlin's .................hope they feel better soon Gill................and you dont have too much dia wotsit to clean up ewwww

GET WELL SOON

[Elisa]

Hope they are feeling better soon Gill.

Good luck with the cleaning! 

[jools]

Poor wee souls - hope they're feelin better soon. x