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Originally Posted by bijoux1

First of all congratulations on your new baby, and I am hoping that she starts to improve in the very very near future! You have gotten great advice from everyone, and I wish you the best in finding the answers for her. I really don't have any advice, but I do agree with you and the other posters that it does sound like she might be in a great deal of pain with her teeth. I know several years ago I returned from a trip, picked up my dog from the dog sitter and immediately noticed that my little poodle suddenly quit eating his food. Like you, the only thing I could get him to eat was also something warm. He was extremely lethargic, and I knew something just wasn't right. I took him in the very next day, and he had a tooth that had abcessed. He had already had his yearly tooth cleaning at the vet earlier that year and this had happened since. But, his abcess was bad enough that they immediately started him on iv antibiotics, and they did his oral surgery the next morning. I'm sorry you weren't able to get more answers at your vet! But, I am glad that your dog is doing better from what you are doing and from the help and advice the others on here have given you! I will pray for continued improvement with her!!

Oh, one thing that I did want to ask you though... I know that you mentioned that she could have come from a puppy mill situation. I am wondering if there is any time she is by herself that she could possible be eating her bowel movement? It sounds like you are with her most of the time... Just when reading this, I wondered if she might be doing that either from having been in a puppy mill setting or if any of her previous homes had ever severely scolded her for pooping inside as some dogs will then learn to hide the "evidence." The have learned they are going to get in trouble, but they never have had the proper training to know where to go. So, instead they just dispose of any evidence. I realize this is probably not the case, and this is probably something you have already thought of, but I just wanted to throw it out there in case.

good point to bring up, my gf recently got a dog from a breeding kennel and if not caught in time she will eat her BM's