[daniellealberta]

I just wanted to add my 2 cents, not necessarily for the original poster, but for anyone who has had a similar problem with their Yorkie. While I TOTALLY agreed that they need to be taken to the vet ASAP, Spike had a similar thing a few months back, where I woke up in the morning and found several places where he had had diarrhea, and where he had vomited a couple of times. He was lethargic, and just looked sick.

I took him to the vet that afternoon, and he was already looking a tiny bit better. The vet checked him over, and said his temperature was a little high, but still in the "normal" range, gave him a little bit of pain medication to help with his tummy ache, and palpated his abdomen. He flinched a tiny bit, but no sign of real pain. She suggested I feed him some plain food, like ground beef and rice, and gave me some liquid medication for the diarrhea. She said if he was no better the next day, bring him back and we would do some blood tests and check for more things.

By that evening, he was a little better, he was drinking water but turned his nose up at the lovely ground beef I made for him (although the cat loved it!). By the next morning, he was back to about 70%, and he cleaned his breakfast plate in about 15 seconds flat! It took about two more days before he was back to 100 percent, but the general consensus is that he ate something he shouldn't have and got an upset tummy as a result.

I wanted to tell this story because sometimes I think that people on the website immediately panic and suggest the worst case scenario when something is wrong with the pup. I love Spike, and would do absolutely anything for him, and I absolutely wanted to get him to the vet ASAP when he was sick. It's so hard because they can't tell us what's wrong. If it's a person who's sick, they can say something like "oh, it's just an upset stomach. I feel rotten, but it's nothing serious." Dogs can't do this for us, and that causes us to panic at times.

The moral of this story: Get your dog checked, but don't panic until you have to. Dogs get upset stomachs and colds just like we do. They just can't tell us that's what it is!