Okay I really dont know what to do. Let me just throw ALL the information out there because I see a lot being suggested that has already been done/attempted. Sorry if this is really long
When i first got him last friday I took him to Pebbles vet in the afternoon. She did a wellness check up on him. She did not notice anything wrong except he did not eat since 9am or so that morning and it was the afternoon--4:30pm. She did not watch him walk, and neither had I at that point really. He had been sleeping. She fed him some Hills precription diet a/d and gave me some cans to take home. She told me to feed something to him every 2hours and to slowly wean him onto the food I wanted to feed him by mixing it with the a/d. Offering him the a/d all weekend and sometimes trying to give him some of his old hard food (yes it is ground up very small).. it seemed he did not like his old food. I tried giving him, then, ground up lifes abundance which he took a few bites of then did not care for anymore. I also tried eukanuba small breed puppy ground up finely and innova evo ground up. ( I had basically all these left over foods because pebbles was a very picky eater as a young puppy and I tried A LOT). I even tried evangers soft food. He did not like anything and would only eat the a/d occasionally. By monday he would not eat the a/d either. I gave him karo monday morning because he had started to shake.. say around 11am. By 1pm he was still shaking his whole body and refusing food. Kind of shaking his head away and avoiding the food when I offered it to him like
no no no!! So then, I decided to try the nutra-cal. After 30 minutes and he was still shaking i called the vet again and my normal vet was on her off day. So the other vet said to bring him in asap and he will look at him. By the time I got there he had stopped shaking. Those stupid vet techs took him back to parade around with him and I was liek look he is sick, please only do what you need to do. I really hate those girls. He is not some stuffed animal to show around. Anyway, I think they aer ignorant because I have to remind them everytime to take off the collar before they do the weigh as with the small ones this can make a difference!! On friday he was 1.2 pounds without a collar on when the vet weighed him. Monday the vet techs said he was 1.3--when the vet told me this i did NOTbelieve it as i knew he had not been eating and it didnt make any sense to me. SO the vet didnt think there was anything really wrong wiith him because "he was still gaining weight" (turns out later i find out the vet techs weighed him with his collar on--idiots). He checked the blood sugar and it was normal (probably due to the nutra-cal he said). I told him about the rubbing up against the furniture and walking funny. he put him on the ground to see him walk but bam bam only took a few steps and started jumping up to be picked up. i said he has to run for you to see it, then it is obvious. He was concerned about the furniture rubbing. I said I hope he is just marking and the doctor got a weird look on his face like he didnt want to scare me. Like something just hit him. He said "we can treat this conservatively or aggressively. At the moment I do not think he has liver shunt because he seems so robust, normally liver shunt puppies are way skinnier than this guy is. He is really small but he is compact and is not skinny." He then said, "I can do a full-blood panel but it might hurt one so little and I dont feel it is necessary at this point." He said if I had to bring him in again he would do the full blood panel. He sent me home with some more a/d and told me to feed bam bam some nutracal every 2 hours and then offer him some food 30 minutes after. He also said to try taking off his collar for two days, even though the bells were really lightweight, to see if that was making him walk funny. He told me his right back knee seemed a little soft, not yet anything to worry about, too young to tell but it might or might not end up being a luxating patellea and why he is walking funny. So I went home and I tried his reccomendations, but he was still walking/running to the side and wasnt eating the food always, 30 minutes later. The vet called to check up on Wednesday but I missed the call. On thursday I checked his weight again and he was 18.5 ounces. I fed him some chicken in a last attempt and he ate it 3 times that day. yesterday he ate it about 1.5 times. The week I got him, week 12, the breeder told me he was 1 pound 4.4 ounces. This morning he was throwing up. I weighed him again on an empty stomach and he was 17.5 ounces
and only up to 18 after I syringe fed him some a/d with a little water.
I just dont know what to think. They checked his ears both visits and said they looked fine? I dont think he has an ear infection. I read about testing small babies for livershunt and it
killing them. Being that there arent any outright livershunt symptoms that cant be explained away by
something else[ I kinda do not want to force this test on him. I am VERY alarmed by his sudden weight loss. I have been keeping track of his weight since he was 5 weeks and he has not weighed this little since he was 10 weeks old- he was 17.6 ounces then. He is going on 14 weeks old on tues. I am getting this feeling if wr do a bloodpanel that nothing will come up. He is just too young for anything to really show up I think. Also, he is running around and playing, chasing pebbles, etc, when he is not asleep or lethargic. Other than his weight loss and sometimes shaking/lethargy he seems normal to me. The nutracal does seem to help when he seems weak. I just dont get why, after more than a week with me, when he seems so at home, why he isnt eating and drinking regularly. I am putting aside his potty training for now as I do not want to stress him out.
I just dont know what to do. I have people on one hand telling me get a bile acid asap and others telling me, like my mother, and others, that i am being paranoid/working myself up and he is fine, just "adjusting."