Hi guys,
Gucci, my 5 month old puppy hasn't been eating and drinking as much as he usually does for the past three days. It started after we vacuumed the living room before yesterday in the afternoon. He gets scared VERY easily and shakes whenever he is stressed. The noise that the vacuum made stressed him out. He was panting and shaking a lot, so I put him in his crate. When I put his food in his bowl he sniffed it and walked away. That made me concerned right away because he LOVES food.. he always attacks his bowl before I even put it down and it seems like he's never full enough. He's never walked away from his food like that. I feed him four times a day, and yesterday he only ate twice, and only out of my hand. He was however drinking a lot, and he was going potty a lot. He didn't seem lethargic or anything like that.. he just kept sniffing his food and walking away from it. Today he's only ate once ! I've been giving him nutri-cal the last few days, but I basically have to force it in his mouth. I took him to the dog park yesterday and he was as playful as usual.. running around and chasing the other puppies. Today however he seems a little more "lazy" than usual. He hasn't played with his toys once, and he's barely ate anything. He ate in the morning, at around 11:00 am, but after that nothing. I've tried canned food and he doesn't seem to like it. He sniff it and runs away. I gave him cheese and that was the only thing he seemed to like. He was crying when I wouldn't give him more, but I wasn't sure if I was giving him too much so stopped. He's been sleeping most of the day.
My vet wasn't in today so I couldn't take him. I have an appointment for tomorrow afternoon, but I wanted to know if there was anything I could do until then. Maybe he's not even as sick as I'm making it seem, but I just can't stand the thought of anything bad happening to him. Could the vacuum really have stressed him out that much ? :S
Another thing, he was scratching his ear a lot last week, so I took him to the vet to see if he might have an ear infection or ear mites. Gucci was moving too much so the vet couldn't tell if it was ear mites or not, but he gave medication to treat both ear mites and an infection. I've been giving him the drops for about 10 days now. I don't know if this might have anything to do with his loss of appetite.
I also switched his food from Royal Canin Babydog 30 to Royal Canin mini puppy 33. This was about a week and a half ago. But I'm certain that I switched it over the right way. At first I only put about 25% of the new one, and as the week progress I put 75% and then 100% of the new food. He hasn't gotten sick and his poop has been the same.
Ahhhhh I'm so frustrated, I can't get him to eat ANYTHING but cheese !
I will be VERY VERY grateful for any advice given.
Thank you !