[yorkietalkjilly]

Thank you all again for the support and caring!!! Tibbs isn't feeling that well this morning, not playing, ears out to the sides, tail out straight behind instead of up but at least not clamped down. He's just lying around and looking sad. I haven't seen his little Yorkie devil fire in his eyes in a week or more. He had his morning dose of Metronidazole but wouldn't eat a thing afterward. Finally I soaked 1/5 cup of the Hill's I/D GI kibble in water and then microwaved it about 4 minutes of so, cooled it and put about a teaspoonful on a little plate. About 9:40 am he went and ate that himself - first time he's eaten without handfeeding in days! Back to bed for him and then about two hours later, he ate almost the entire rest of the 1/5 cup of kibble all on his own and back to bed. He's not drunk any water except what he got in his food so watching that. Vitals/gums ok. I still haven't observed a poo but I know he's done one as his tummy gets very rounded out and firm when he's constipated. It's been so cold I will step back into the Utility Porch when he goes out and that must be when he does his biz. But he's easy to diagnose when he's constipated from that tummy.

I don't hear any gas or tummy sounds so I'm guessing it's his disease and/or the Metro that is making him so lethargic. He's got his strength, comes up and down his doggie steps normally and still barks when I say "garbage truck" and jumps to the back of the couch against the den window sill barking and growling but lies back down after a while. I've just made him some more microwaved kibble for later and we'll just take it easy today and see what happens.

I've got some reading to do today, tomorrow and Monday that lisaly/Lisa suggested from the University of Tennessee's College of Veterinary Medicine website all about shunts, MVD, etc. She's been doing a lot of research on all this and reading and amazed me with all that she knows about these disease processes! And her Katie doesn't even have it - she's just educating herself on it all! She just had all this information ready to go for me out of the blue! She totally astounded me.

I am scared to know all about it but really can't wait to learn how these disease processes work and hope that by the time we get the scintigraphy results, I can know about what they will probably show and can know about what the vets will be telling me. I have dreaded the day that I had to learn all about this but now's the time. Thank you again, Lisa, for the excellent links to the highly credible and authoritative source material I need to read! You saved me at the very least hours and hours of searching and reading. And how would I know for the longest time which sites had the most widely-recognized and peer-reviewed articles, literature and research reports? It would take days. My eyes would be done for and I'd still be searching.

I will post those website links here later myself so YT will have these links, too, even though maybe one or more of them have been posted before in other threads sometime. That way anyone reading this or Tibbe's other thread with a pup they suspect is having similar problems can read all this excellent information too from vets doing what sounds like the most respected work and research in the field.