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[QUOTE=margaritaville;4401835]If Cody came from the hur. Sandy area and drank some contaminated water it is possible he may have/had c diff
My vet, at Christmas time she sends out a news letter, updating her clients about what tech. got married, who had a baby, what her husband & her daughter are up to now. Well she called me early in Dec. to say me adopting cody was a perfect Christmas story for this Christmas letter she sends out, she asked for my permission to use it but would change the names (if you read any of my other postings you will know I had to put my baby girl down Oct 1st, the on Oct. 24th my son died suddenly) My vet called me 6 weeks after I had to put down my lil girl, told me they just got in a surrender 2 y/o male, neutered, micro chipped & house broken yorkie. I told her I always had females, didn't want a male because of marking, she said he is neutered, some will still mark, some will not (cody does not) she said there is something about him that reminds me of Matese, I asked what it was, she said his ears, (Matese had the biggest most beautiful ears ever, I LOVED her ears) she begged me to JUST come see the dog, well you know what happened lol, when I went to see him and agreed to take him I then told my vet about the loss of my son. She said "Joan, there was a reason cody came to us, you NEED him", and I agreed that I did. So that being said, she puts this Christmas letter together, in it she referred to cody getting bleeding ulcers from the stress he was under from the prev. owner. (there's a story as to why cody was surrendered that has to do with a mother & infant moving into this owners house) On one of my visits I asked her about the Ulcers she wrote in that letter, asked is that what he has, (each one of the yorkies I had all at one time or another had Colitis, with meds it cleared up in a week or 2, so I know what colitis poop looks like) her reply was not to worry, we'll get him better. She knows how I am with my dogs, I have been with her since 1984, I assumed she didn't want to cause me more worry. So I really don't know what cody is being treated for, I bring in 3 or 4 stool samples, the day of my visit if he poops at 3am, I save that, if he poops at 5AM I save that, what ever he poops up until the time I leave I collect it, put the time he pooped on it, reason for this is, each poop is diff, and I want her to see this. Then the vet has a tech microscope all samples I bring in. Now I have the info you gave me, and my gut is telling me this is what he has from the contaminated water, I just need to know if he didn't drink it how is it transferred. have to send this off before I loose it