We're back from the vet - hopefully, I just had a huge overaction. It's just that I thought Bubba could have had pork, he had been doing panting, vomiting & had diarrhea - all signs of the pancreatitis.
My vet is so laid back - he's a traditionally trained vet turned acupuncturist/holistic vet.
As noted before we had been traveling. We met another yorkie in a gas station parking lot in Illinois or Kentucky. We went with pepe mint last Friday to a dog park in Nashville, then we traveled to Atlanta where my brother has a golden & a cat. While in Atlanta, went to a park, where other dogs were on leash.
My vet said Bubba has some viral thing - he didn't even test the messy poo I took in - he said traveling across states Bubba must have picked up something he hadn't been exposed to before. He said this was as close to a flu that a dog can get. My vet uses both traditional medicine & herbal medicine, depending on the situation.
He prescribed an herb - Early Comfort - looks like it is used in humans too. Bubba is to have 1/4 of a tablet, every 8 hrs, until at least 24 hrs after I no longer see any problems. Here's the best info I could find on this herbal compound, if you want to know more.
http://www.nutritionsurplus.com/inde...ort%204oz.html
I am not to let Bubba eat any solids for 24-48 hrs, only water and maybe some chicken broth or chicken soup - my vet said that chicken soup can have amazing healing properties even for a dog. Not feeding him is going to be really interesting, seeing how demanding he can be at times for food and he has had some interest in eating.
The really sad thing when I was at the vet, the vet tech had one of her dogs there barely alive - her 9 yr old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel had gone into cardiac arrest last night and was on oxygen just hanging on
- made me feel fortunate to just be dealing with maybe just a virus