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A few days ago, my yorkie started to have an upset tummy. My husband and I were both ill with flu and decided to starve her for a day and keep her on fluids. The following day we tried some chicken and rice and after a few hours she vomited, bringing up undigested food. I tried to give her small amounts of food, but she was very reluctant to eat it. Raw lean minced beef was the only thing that she could tolerate. She was drinking her water. We took her to the vet yesterday and he said that she has a stomach virus, which is going around, and to keep offering her the chicken and not the beef.

Yesterday she had not eaten at all and I was so concerned. I had tried to get her to eat some chicken, which she was very reluctant to eat, but she ate a little. Her diarrhea started again.

Eventually I had to go back to the beef, as we were getting so concerned. The beef has stayed down well, I feel that it was the chicken, that I did get her to take earlier on in the day, that caused this, as the beef has not upset her before. She is passing a few very wet blobs of feaces - about a teaspoon at a time. The vomiting has stopped. She is just sleeping all the time.

I could take her to the vet again, but if it is a virus, what can he do, apart from keeping up her fluids? She is able to do this at home. My husband feels that if she is going to pass away, he wants her with us and not in a cage at the vet, both of which frighten her and cause her great stress.

We are both so upset and confused about what to do for the best.