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Originally Posted by Kendraleigh  Thanks for your response nvnvgirl. So right now he's taking little bits of the royal canine only if we wrap each piece in tiny bits of pita bread. As long as he's getting that nutrition I'm ok with it for now, but I know we're just spoiling him to death! He's getting cheerios and pita bread...now the little bit of dog food. He's not drinking as much as I would like on his own, but I've been giving him 1tsp dropper fulls of pedialyte mixed with water about every hour or so. I'm probably going to take him later this evening to our vet to get the fluid under his skin just to keep him really hydrated. I feel like every time I turn around though he's peeing! Did Max do that? He hasn't had any diarrhea since 1-2am and I don't know if that's b/c his diet is so bland and he's getting constipated now or if he's just slowly recovering and it's starting to form. Let's hope that's the case!
My vet is putting together a list of other dog foods I can try for this little guy. Thank you again for your help! I'm glad to hear Max is doing well! |
Kendra~ I don't remember the part about peeing all the time, but Max was about a year old when he got it and was housetrained by then. I think taking him to the vet is a good idea, just to let her/him see how he's doing and if there's anything you should or shouldn't be doing.
I do remember though, about the pooping....I was concerned b/c Max wasn't pooping like he normally did and the vet told me that I should make sure I was feeding him enough bulk that would make it be enough that he would poop. Does that make sense? B/c I was only giving him little amounts at a time, so it would take a lot longer for it to build up.
Also, the thing that I was really thrilled about when he started on the W/D is that it makes their poops more formed and solid; so when they DO poop, it's much easier to clean up plus, it helps with that anal gland issue...Max never needs his cleaned out at the groomers b/c of that.
I know that your baby is still fresh from this trauma, but at first Max wouldn't eat the dry W/D either....at first I was giving him the dry. She told me not to coddle him and that when he got hungry and realized that he wasn't going to get anything else, he'd eat. And she was right. Now, Max was overweight at the time (which was one possibility of the cause of the pancreatitis), so we didn't have to worry about him failing. And he was never THAT picky of an eater (except when it came to DOG food). Talk to your vet when you take him in and see what they have to say about that. You can always put your ear up to his belly to see if you hear bowel sounds (or use a stethoscope; there should be at least a little gurgling down there). I figure as long as I can hear them, his stomach is working and there will eventually be poop. If he didn't have any, but had bowels sounds, after awhile I'd def. talk to the vet.
Also, I don't know if they put yours on Reglan (Max came home on antibiotic and antifungal and the Reglan, which helps motility in the gut), but Max was acting very oddly, like snapping at flies (he was hallucinating I think) and when I told the vet, she said to discontinue the Reglan....so I did, and the symptoms stopped. He was on it one other time when he was having some tummy problems and I forgot he'd had that reaction to it, but he started doing it again almost immediately, so that made me remember and I stopped it and now have it written down that he shouldn't get it. Some of those stomach meds made some of my patients in the ICU hallucinate too, so I shouldn't have been so surprised. I'm just telling you this in case yours does something similar, you'll at least have a clue what it is!
Good luck with your little one; I'm sure it will all work out, but gosh, it's scary in the beginning!