 Ranger is sick
My poor baby, I am so upset right now, I know that all of you can completely relate. Hubby and I were up the mountain snowmobiling all weekend, and noticed that Ranger's poo was a little loose Sat. AM. He seemed fine Sat. PM, but when we got back in the truck after dinner he had had an accident (diarrhea) in his crate, which has NEVER happened before. We got back to the hotel and cleaned him up, fed him, and played with him- he was ABSOLUTELY normal Sat. night- playing, running around, jumping on Robert's head, all normal Ranger stuff.
The next morning he was still acting pretty normal, but in hindsight, I did notice he was just is bit off. But when we got back to the truck Sunday afternoon he had diarrhea all over his crate, was shaking, and had glassy eyes, really pale gums. I let him out and he started having BLOODY diarrhea. I FREAKED OUT. Robert got the sleds on the trailer and got us off the mountain to the emergency clinic in less than 2 hours (really good time, especially w/ bad roads), I cried the whole way home.
We got him to the vet, neg. parvo test, decided to put him on fluids, anti-nausea, etc, and kept him there- I used Franklin's mom's method and took Benadryl so I could sleep.
I picked him up this morning to take him to my normal vet, and he looked really good. I couldn't take him to my vet for an hour so stopped at home where I was going to clean him up. He wanted out so I took him outside where he immediately started w/ the bloody diarrhea again. I am just panicking. He's back at the vet on fluids, but the dr. hasn't seen him yet. I feel like I should have kept him at the emergency clinic, as they have the best small animal doctors in the area. I am not as confident in our routine vet clinic, as my normal vet is out of town and another vet whom I have never met before is going to be treating him. I don't feel really good about it and don't know what to do, I am so worried and he's so tiny and helpless. Hubby says we can take him somewhere else, or back to WestVet, but I don't want to stress him out anymore.
Kind thoughts and prayers needed. Sorry so long, I just know you guys understand. |