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Perhaps your dog is actually suffering from EPI (exocrine pancreatic insufficiency) EPI

Sounds like a massive stuff up happend between the pound and the vet. Your dog is lucky that you are a fantastic owners and actually took her back to be desexed. I would probably forget about the other vet in terms of getting information out of them as they sound pretty disorganised. I would contact the pound though and inform them of how befuddled the vet they choose to service their animals is. I would get her heartworm tested by your vet next time she sees them. Does the cough sound like a smokers cough? It could well be a chronic irritation of the bronculles that antibiotics are not really going to do anything with. Try her on one claratyne (human antihistamine) a day for at least a week to see if there is any improvement. One of my ex fosters had a little cough that she would do maybe a few times a day. She was on antibiotics which did nothing and even had an exray of her lungs which showed nothing. After a week on claratyne it had compeletley dissapeared.

:p Great advice.

Fantastic news. Swimming might be something you could look into. Poppy just got her cast off a bit over a week ago and soft bandage off on Wednesday. I took her swimming at a hydro pool yesterday for the first time. It was a crack up.

For me it would be a BARF diet. Minced chicken carcusses (puppy mince), lamb bones, food processed veggies/fruit/eggs, sardines & offal. If you feed your puppy meat without bone you are going to do alot of damage to it's growing bones and muscles. Lenards sell puppy mince which is minced chicken carcusses and perfect for growing puppies. Please do not feed meat without bone.

Good stuff.

It could be the dry food. Do they get bones? How often do you bath and what with? There is an EPO shampoo by Groomers Choice that is my favourite shampoo.

Do you have any saline drops that you can flush it out with? Try pushing it towards the inner side of the eye. If you leave it in there it is more of a risk of damaging the actual eye or inflaming the surrounding tissue. I would make sure that there is not damage to the eye from it (scratches/ulcers)

KY Jelly, paw paw ointment, vasaline or something similar to lubricate it and help it slide back in.

Mites that cause mange are not worms. But Advocate does protect against both Demodex and Sarcoptic Mange so it is probably very unlikey that redness and hairloss is being caused either of these two types of mange. So it is either something to do with her eyes causing them to produce to many tears therefore making the hair and skin under her eyes moist and irritated. Or qwhat you are cleaning them with.

If it's not that his stomach is rumbling it could be the beef. Some dogs are allergic to it.

Any updates and photos Kaz? I am hoping his elbows are looking much better.

Give him a toy to chew on instead of your ear.

When do you feed (time and how many times a day)? What do you feed?

Get him onto a BARF, RAW or Prey Mode diet. Fresh food already has water in it so dogs do not need to drink as much. Many dogs are allergic to what is in dry food. His body probably needs to detox from the junk he has been fed for years. If you really want to feed him dry food then add water to it.

Perhaps she needs more muscle then fat on her. Do you exercise her regularily? What do you feed?

I can't say it's something that I use as food for the pugs. I would think it would be the seed, alot of seeds are supposedly toxic. I always remove apple & pear seeds before food processing or feeding whole as a treat.

I totally missed that. I would be thinking mites/mange. Is it only beneth the eyes that the hair is being lost and the redness is occuring? Or all around the eyes?

Sorry I had to laugh her pictures are to cute. I didn't think that poms were a breed that needed their hair cut. Is that brown/black on her side her hair or her skin?

Are you giving him this to fill him up because they would provide little nutrients served this way? Do a little reading and you will find that dogs can not break down the cellulose walls of vegetables and fruit so we have to do it for them. Put them through the food processor or juicer and serve as slops. Green leafy vegetables should make up the majority of the vegtables that you feed. Silverbeat, alfalfa, cellary, spinach, pumpkin etc. STITCH possibly has your solution in the food you are feeding being to high in fat. Dogs that can't tolerate alot of fat will throw up. When I used to feed pigs ears years ago my boy would throw up bile afterwards everytime because pigs ears are full of fat.

I agree with everyone else. He wanted to play. My 6 year old female pug still does this to me.

So glad that your boy is ok. I'm shocked that the vets would not see your dog immediatley. Sounds to me like everything would have indicated it as an emergency case. I've heard of stomach torsion but never liver. Do they have any idea of what causes it?

Ok maybe not the egg. How are the veggies prepared? I would try him with just the dry food for a while to see how he goes? Occasionally the pugs with vomit bile if they have eaten something they can't digest properly.

He could have a condition where he is missing digestive enzymes so he is unable to process food properly. Basically it goes in one end and out the other almost the same. Does he eat his own poo? What is his hair like? I look after a puggy girl that has this condition. She is a skinny mini and always will be. Her fur is pretty harsh. She gets the runs or vomits if her food is to fatty and will eat her poo because her food doesn't digested properly. She does pretty well on a diet of lean chicken necks and BARF roo patties. She has three small meals a day and always has to have a digestive enzyme sprinkled onto her food. You can purchase the digestive enzymes from a health food shop.

I would see it as more important to add bones (chicken necks & lamb bones) to dry food then veggies and eggs. What veggies are you feeding and are they whole or food processed? How is the egg fed? Raw? With it's shell? Mixed with the veggies? I would probably suspect that it's the egg that is making him sick if you are feeding him a whole raw one every night.