Loving my Oldies

Have sent another message to the vet. Mrs RB, no one got the first upchuck. By the time I'd wiped that up and gone back for the second, it was the seond that had gone. Tamar has now thrown up all over the deck. She did eat some of it back down. Pebbles, he goes ages without eating as it is. The meds are given three times a day - did you mean to stop even them? Jemappelle, that thought is pretty daunting, but if I have to learn to give injections, I will. As for small meals often: for someone who lives alone and doesn't do much cooking, you should see the mountain of washing up I have LOL. He just refuses everything. The goats milk and honey that he loved last night was poison this morning . Probably the nausea. I have just tried him on some icecream .... ignored. I've also tried a little bit of ordinary food. If he is nauseous, all these different foods I am trying are just a waste of time and probably make him feel worse just to smell them. I just don't know what else to do. I have suggested to my vet having a discussion with someone at ARH, because there is no way I am taking him back to SASH. It wasn't just the so called specialist: it was the receptionist, another vet and the practice manager.

As do pounds. And some breeders and some rescues Sadly, yes. Probably more than some.

As usual, the calm voice of reason and compassion.

Are they long term like some of the antibiotics now or would they need to be given every day?

Yep we were posting at the same time and I came into the study to use my computer to reply and he just threw up again :( I'm about to text my vet again, jemappelle. There must be something causing this. But it is very confusing seeing that all his blood tests yesterday were good. At my wits end. And add to Danny's woes, I just came back from walking Tamar and Bunter and someone has thrown up all over the couch. Whether Tamar did it before we went out walking or whether it was Jeune who was on the couch when we left, I don't know. Danny and Bunter can't get up onto the couch on their own any more.

I'm off to shoot myself. Gave Danny the Cerenia in peanut butter this morning without any difficulty, followed a little later with his Ranitidine and Cisapride and he lapped up a little bit of goats milk and honey. I also syringed some to take away the taste of the Ranitidine. Found it all thrown up on the deck with the pink of the tablet quite visible. Rang the vet to check about giving him another Cerenia. I had to wait for his answer as he was consulting. When the vet nurse called me back about an hour later to say it was okay, I mashed it up in a little water to syringe it. A few minutes later, I found it thrown up in the lounge room. Went out onto the deck to wipe up the previous mess, went into the lounge to wipe up the other and it had gone. No idea who licked it up :( That latest roller coaster at Luna Park doesn't come close to the roller coaster here.

WHAT?? :eek: Seriously, she was a bit bemused. Nothing was stolen. That was a practice in the area she lived in then. think the idea was maybe something might be saved... Oh, I thought you meant they were so upset that her house was saved when theirs weren't. Phew, I was thinking all sorts of horrible things.

Perse is totally wicked. Because I was asking about cat combs n another thread, she actually sent me this link in a PM making sure I didn't miss it. Luckily, but with huge difficulty :laugh: :laugh: I was able to resist having checked my bank balance. :laugh: Still damned tempted by a couple of those beds though.

WHAT?? :eek:

Oh, well that's okay then. We can all go home and forget about. Haredown Whippets has spoken. :mad I'll bet you wouldn't be so sanguine if one of your dogs had been in that that kennels. They, and other businesses of all kinds, are paid not to make judgements of error and when they do, they should be investigated thoroughly. From all accounts, this was more than a judgement of error: it was a blatant disregard for the all the warnings, all the offers of help and a head in the sand mentality.

typical immature response when people can't articulate their argument/point of view, they lash out instead. I tried you are not listening If this whole situation wasn't such a tragedy, this would have me . You are casting this aspersion at labadore simply because she disagrees with your position. She could just as well say the same about you. And you are the one posting insulting remarks and calling people names ..... simply because they don't agree with you.

Did you edit out the green hair :laugh: . Last time I looked it was a pretty insipid light brown.

You'll hear me, persephone :laugh:

As do pounds.

Oh, . Thank you VM, I had to keep pulling back on the accelerator on the way home, I was in such a hurry to give him his first tablet. Yes!! I managed to give him a half small tablet buried in pearnut butter . Early night with a book, I think. That way he will be resting and not worried about losing me. Rappie, is the house next door to you for sale? :laugh: :laugh:

Vet rang while I was out walking - luckily I took my phone with me and I actually heard it. Well to be totally honest, I became aware of a noise and was wondering what it was. Took a while for me to realise it was the phone. All result good and with some better than before. Angus did go through everything for me just summarising here. We then discussed the need to address his nausea. His first suggestion ((RAPPIE TAKE A BOW ) was Cerenia. I am waiting to hear from him to see if he has any in stock and hopefully I'll be able to get started on that without delay. The extraordinary thing is that Danny polished the dregs of my Chinese take away lunch after he woke from his Goats Milk and Honey induced sleep and then when I heated up the remainer for a snack, I had to give him that as well. What a diet for dog LOL. But as Nickyp says, if he will eat it . . . . BTW, Nickyp, I did try the ginger nut biscuits. Because he enjoys milky sugary tea I broke them up and soaked them in a little bit of tea. He loved it ..... the tea that is. Wouldn't eat the biscuits , but then he wouldn't eat the Arrowroot ones either. I am getting very excited at the prospect of his nausea being brought under control. He is [almost] a different dog from this morning, since he has had a little bit to eat. And so far kept it down. Later: I had to rush off down to the vet to get the Cerenia. Fiingers/everything crossed that this will be the magic bullet.

I was a bit confused at first, too. But I think sandgrubber is intimating (I could be wrong :D ) that there are a heap of contentious issues here that the press could have a field day with. Frankly, I wouldn't care what a person's nationality and/or culture was, but for a pet shop owner to call puppies particularly naughty shows such ignorance. As for Debra Tranter being an "AR Nut". Well I wish there were more people like her with the courage to follow through on their convictions.

Thanks VM. I'm sitting at the dining room table too scared to move because I know he'll get up and follow me. I want him to keep down the milk and honey. :) :)

Rappie says that there are side affects . Mind you if they are side affects that take a while to show themselves, I would be giving it a go, considering his age. Waiting for the vet to call. I think the main thing for Danny is to get rid of his nausea and restore an appetite.

Goats milk and maunka honey ? ------------ YES YES YES. Now to see if he can keep it down. I decided to not push it too hard so left out the nutrigel. They've never been particularly keen on that, but if he manages to keep this little bit down, I will try that later. (I did have to get him started by dipping my finger in and rubbing his gums -LOL.) He is now rolled up in a donut bed having a little groom. Rappie, I told the vet about his play bowing and he says that he couldn't get any reaction to indicate that he is in pain. He did say that he was difficult to judge in that way, because he never yelped or whinged and was just such a good dog. Maybe he WAS just playbowing, but I've never really noticed that he does that and having had a dog, many many years ago, suffer from pancreatitis, I am very wary when I see dogs doing that. He'll give stretches when he gets up from time to time, but that's about it. Thank you for the meds suggestions and I'll be asking my vet when he calls me back with the blood results. We did try an appetite stimulant a little while back, but it didn't make any difference; because he was already on so many meds three times a day, I didn't keep up with it.

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I've been to the vet this morning, CavNrott, and the vet has taken bloods to check liver and kidney function. I have been under the impression that Ranitidine (zantac) was to help with the nausea and the Carafate was supposed to line his stomach and assist in preventing irritation. The Cisapride was to help with speeding up the passage of food so nothing hung around turning gaseous?? I am very much a lay person and have to rely on what the vets tell me. I am feeling sick and horrible at the thought we may not have been doing our best for Danny. He has been to the vet several times in the just the past few weeks, because he has an ulcer on his eye. This has finally started to shrink, but that has nothing to do with his gut problems, just adds to his general level of discomfort. He has just had a little bit of icecream and yoghurt, so hopefully he will keep that down. Yet to hear from the vet re the blood results, but that shouldn't be too long as they are done in-house. I've attached a photo of Danny and me chillin' on the couch yesterday.

That photo of them in the bed is sooooooooo precious. I just walked into the study to find Bunter and Tamar tucked up together in a bed made for one.

That's another story from those originally posted. I am sure their insurance company will be doing a thorough investigation - I would certainly hope so. Whilst I totally disagree with posting hateful and condemnatory post on FB or anywhere else, I can only say that if I had a boarding kennels nestled in the hills and forests with upwards of 100 animals there, I'd be evacuating or at least have a cattle train sized truck ready to do so at the first sign the fires might be a danger. I don't know that losing their own animals can be cited as any sort of mitigating factor. This has been a horrible tragedy and I do believe the owners needed to be more proactive. No you don't. TV programs need to be more responsible and emply some decency in not showing horror simply for ratings and titillation . Sadly, there are people who get off on seeing death and destruction and the more the better.

Now that is a worry because Neko is so tiny. But neutered or not, dogs will mate. Crating seems to be the only solution because, as you would know, tying can take place in a second. Always knew that little shiny black thing was a tart :laugh: :laugh: