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Originally Posted by Tcarnagie

No running or playing, throwing up, diarrhea, would not eat or drink at all. I got him on a Wednesday night, and he weighted almost 2 lbs, Thursday, would not eat or drink on his own so I forced water, peda-lite and baby food down him, Friday we went to vet and they did Fluid injections and checked stools, gave albon, they tried feeding him different foods there along with cat food and he would not take it, they gave me some powder to sprinkle on food and see if that works but said if I could not get him to eat dog food, continue with baby food. By the next week, there was no change so went back to vet and they did blood work, found an infection due to his white blood cell count, so they switched his medicine and gave something for the nausea and diarrhea. We went to the vet weekly for a total of 9 weeks and he lost a total of 1 lb during that time. The last trip to the vet was to see if we need to put him to sleep. The breeder wanted it and another vet said I should, but my vet said he wanted to try one more antibiotic that was stronger and see, sure enough, we seen immediate results. It still took us a long time to get him to eat on his own and the only thing I could get him to eat was mighty dog canned food. We never found out what was infected or what caused it without having to go to a specialist and seeing that he did recover, there was no need.

Just keep putting food down him as long as he is not vomiting it back up, and I had to constantly stay on the vet. I even switched vets twice until I found somebody that would do something instead of playing the waiting game. He lived almost three years before he was killed and we never had any more medical problems with him.

I did not like that they suggested putting your pup down... Especially when there was not a clear idea as to what is going on . I am glad he is responding to the medication.
As other much more experienced Yorkie Owners have said, do more testing and see what the results are. putting a dog to sleep should be the last option.