Thank you ppl. Such sweet pictures of your furbabes!
Actually other than this occasional bile throw up, Roxy's vet visits, on a regular basis check out A+1, like I previously mentioned. Roxy has had the same vet since day one as well. She also has a Eastern & Western medicine doctor as well.
107barney: I'm not really changing her diet. It is exactly the same but minus a few of the harder to digest carbs as well as breaking up her two cooked meals a day, into four so she is eating less but more often with one before bedtime.
Today she is spry, spunky, cuddly, playful, alert and motivated. Normal B.M.'s, no upset tummy and no vomit of bile this morning.
I agree that the option is there to do a full work up, depending on what the Roxy's doctor recommends.
I am almost sure that Roxy's vet would tell me to do what I did & if there are any more incidents to then bring her in for some blood work.
If Roxy were vomiting profusely I would rush her to emerge without question! However, Since Roxy's vet isn't in town until Tuesday, I will take the wait & see approach until then. If Roxy vomits between now & then, she will be in to see her Vet first thing Tuesday morning. Absolutely. That is why I had Roxy's file faxed over to this office yesterday, since I wont be back out of town for a bit yet & just in case.
jencar98: I strongly feel her upset tummy was due to too many hard to digest carbs as well as not enough food in her tummy from the time she eats dinner to the time she wakes in the morning. The extra snack before bed & an additional feeding mid day has made improvements. I noticed a big difference in her at her last walk, last night. She loved her snack before bedtime too.
ritapat: Was a good read for sure and glad that you liked the article. Opened my eyes as well. I still give Roxy vegetables, just the ones that are easier for her to digest & increased the protien, lessened the brown rice and rolled oats, depending on if it her breakfast or dinner.. Roxy's favorite greens are the centers from Romain Lettuce.
boopster, rtsmichele & rtsmichele: Thank you for your input regarding the new carpet.
I understand what you are saying and agree. It can be quite smelly sometimes although the carpet wasn't glued. They use pieces of wood attached to the concrete. Put down underlay and then carpet, stretch and pound down, onto the nails sticking out of the small pieces of wood set in along the edges. Even when we first came back into town after it was freshly laid, two years ago, I did not detect any strange odors that could be offensive to Roxy, to the point it would make her sick. She seemed fine with it. Were no adverse reactions.
I do not detect an odor from it at all & do use throw rugs. I vacuum at least weekly. Carpeting is an issue though, that I do concern myself with when we are visiting etc. I do not let Roxy walk in the halls of the building either, unless she has her shoes or boots on and even then, since she is so close to the ground, I just rather carry her until we get outside. I am very fussy about the surfaces that she treds on.
As well as fresh paint odors, air fresheners, like those glade things, people who wear perfume or smoke.. the list goes on. I am extra careful to avoid exposure to such for Roxy.
I am almost sure it has to do with the ratio of vegies to meat, the type of vegetables & the frequency of feeding. I feel that having her little belly with some food it in helps her have a nice cuddly sleep so to wake energetic as usual, without being faced with what was probably hunger pangs. Poor little thing.
Hopefully all will be well over the week end. Haven't heard what the outcome of the vet visit for the dog I mentioned about in initial post. He went to the vet yesterday. |