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Originally Posted by margaritaville

If Cody came from the hur. Sandy area and drank some contaminated water it is possible he may have/had c diff which is extremely difficult to get rid of. As for the water-do you live in an area of Pa. Where fracking is common? If so I would feel more comfortable with bottled water... Even in plastic.

Cody lived in Rockaway NY, which is on the border line of queens & Brooklyn, houses are all built along the bay area. I spoke to the prev. owner 2 weeks after I had cody, I told her cody came to my vet with serious colitis condition. She told me Rockaway got hit bad by hurricane Sandy, her house was flooded and she had to leave, she said she put the dog in “A” shelter (not even gonna go there!!!!) she said the dog was in the shelter for 16 days, when she picked him up he had diarrhea, (I had also asked her was he prone to car sickness, because he does suffer from that, another story lol) she said he never got sick in the car until he was in that shelter. Sooo, after taking him out of that shelter he now had diarrhea and car sickness. This woman I believe was a FIRST TIME DOG OWNER. She did not have a steady vet, she used whom ever if or when the dog needed medical attention, (I know this because when she surrendered the dog he came with a bag of all his belongings including a folder of his medical records. Not ONE vet was used 2 times, she even used a MOBILE VET. For the diarrhea she told me she saw a vet, dog was given meds, (for how long a period I don’t know) she said even with the meds and after the meds the dog still had diarrhea, she said THE VET TOLD HER DON’T WORRY ABOUT THE DIARRHEA IT WILL GO AWAY. (can I believe a vet would really tell this to someone when a dog has diarrhea, with mucus & blood in it? Or did she just give up and didn’t want to deal with having to take dog out for walk every hour? OR-being a first time dog owner was just innocently ignorant and listened to what this vet told her because she TRUSTED THE WORDS OF A VET, if in fact a vet did say this. I choose to believe she was innocently ignorant, I say this because this dog was MUCH LOVED, was given MUCH ATTENTION, his coat, sweater harness & leash were good quality, coat & sweater was expensive, many hours were spent on training him to walk not pull on leash walks, to sit, stay etc. this shows me there was an interest in the dog. Cody came to me as ONE SPOILED TO DEATH PUPPY, which I love . So I MUST BELIEVE the prev owner was innocently ignorant. It is GREATLY possible he did drink contaminated water, I will bring this up to my vet, I have appt. for cody next week. When you say “contaminated water it is possible he may have/had c diff which is extremely difficult to get rid of” what do you mean by “c diff” not to savvy with these abbreviations used on YT but am learning lol’ . also you wrote “ As for the water-do you live in an area of Pa. Where fracking is common? (oh how I HATE to sound STUPID lol I have lived in NY Da Bronx all my life, I moved to Pa. 13 years ago), never heard the terminology “FRACKING” what is FRACKING so I can check into this. I would like to thank you so very much for reading my post, the information you provided is outstanding. If you can answer these couple of questions I have asked of you I would greatly appreciate it. Cody means the world to me, I will do what ever it takes to get him well. In my research of colitis I read if prolonged could lead to cushings decease, My last baby that I had to put down this past Oct. had cushings decease for the last 7 years of her life, I do not want to go through that again. I cannot tell you how very sick at heart I am over this colitis cody has, and the diff. meds my vet has had him on, all have somewhat helped but not cured. I have 1000% confidence in my vet, if there is a cure she will find it, right now it is a process of elimination