Poor Millie

[debih]

She has terrible diorhea (sp).

It started yesterday and I've been up 3 times in the night to let her out. I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do really.

Normally I would starve her for 24 hours and then give her a very light diet of chicken and rice but I'm reluctant to do that as it goes against us trying to get her to put weight on!!!

I stopped feeding her at about 5pm last night although she had pretty much had all of her two tins of food and just gave her some natural yoghurt. This morning she is having a scrambled egg - which I am handfeeding her bit by bit as I type; 20 mins so far for half an egg. I will nip and get some live yoghurt whilst I am out.

Fortunately I am going into town this morning so will call into the vets to see what they suggest. As we now know that the insurance company have split the two claims we have extra money to play around with so I was intending on putting her back on the ID for a while anyway and charging it to the insurance - that will probably help to settle her stomach.

I don't know what has caused it as although we have changed her food that was about a month ago. Maybe there is a dog bug going round?

I have noticed that each time she goes out now she "performs" less and less so hopefully it is working its way through her - although it could have more to do with that she has eaten nothing since 5pm.

[Lozzles]

Oh poor Millie Hopefully she will improve as the day goes on debih xxx

[Diflower]

Oh no!
I think for today I'd feed her only when you're going to be there for a while afterwards. One day or so shouldn't hurt with less food. And I would give her just rice, then with some chicken too, a tablespoon or so at a time to see how it goes.
Hopefully it'll just stop, but it's a worry isn't it
(((((Debih and Millie)))))
x

[debih]

That bloody dog - I swear she was put on this earth to test my patience!

I went to the vet whilst in town to have a chat with him - he gave me some paste (£17.99) to squeeze in her mouth to help settle her stomach and suggested rice and chicken. We decided that the best way for me to feed it to her would be to cook it, zuzz it up in a food processor and then add water to it so it was very soup like. I called in the butchers to buy a couple of pieces of chicken (£3.60).

I came home and gave her her first squirt of paste and dutifully cooked up a small amount of rice and poached the chicken. Let it cool and then zuzzed it up, added some water and made what looked like a very tasty soup. She turned her nose up at that so I ended up spoon feeding her the rest of the mushed up chicken and rice mix in very small amounts to make sure there were no lumps sticking in her throat - it took about 45 minutes to get quite a small amount down her.

Then I took her immediately out for a walk and what did she do. An enormous big solid poo!!!!!!!

Bloody dog. It cost me nearly £22 that poo.

[Diflower]

Typical
I suppose you should be glad it wasn't anything worse but blimey...

[Kaz]

Oh dear Am glad she is ok though xxxx

[miasmum]

Sounds familiar