I am so sorry to read all that you have been through, I pray that this little furbaby gets well very soon...hugs to you

clostridium difficile, I will bring this up with my vet next week, I cannot tell you how important this info is to me. By giving this info to my vet may result in a diff. way of treating cody.


The EPA yes I will google it,
you are an angel from heaven, I am all excited now to see my vet to give her this clostridium difficile possibility, unless she has already taken this into consideration.....My brain has been telling me there is NO CURE for cody.....in time, in a short time he will get much worse.......my heart has been telling me to think more positive.....my heart and brain are touching me, I love this lil guy toooooo much. He is soooo good, sooooo smart, sooooo funny, you would never know he was sooooo sick. Thank you so very much for this clostridium difficile info. this may save my dog. God bless you and watch over you. (((hugs))))

you are a sweet heart, 22 days after I adopted cody the aunt that raised me at age 11 died (my mother was killed by a hit and run driver when I was 11 y/o) she was my mothers sister, she told me, that she had vowed to my mother when I was born if anything were to happen to her she would take care of me. Little did she know then that a time would come, and she DID live up to that vow, my aunt had 2 small children 4 & 2 y/o and me. She was closer then a mother, sister, best friend. From age 11 to 17 she was a mother, I married at 17, had my son at 18, she became mother & sister to me. At 32 I divorced, she became my best friend. Loosing her so soon after my son (28 days) and my sweet lil girl was just to over whelming, she was not sick either, old, but healthy, sudden death. If cody was not in my life at that time, well!!!!!! he pulled me through, and has gotten me through each day he has been with me (Nov, 12, 2013) this is why he is so very very special to me. I cannot loose him. I will do what ever it takes to see if he can be cured. I pray every night for him and all members here on YT. Thank you for your kind words and prayers.

[QUOTE=margaritaville;4401926]Clostridium Difficile in Dogs
The reason I bring up the subject of c diff (clostridium difficile) when you mentioned Sandy is that during the hurricane the sewers and treatment facilities were flooded. Leaving homes that were flooded, streets and beaches in our area contaminated. Iam a nurse and see c diff often since it is easily transferred. The symptoms you describe fit the description.

so that I can give my vet more info. on clostridium difficile, how can it be transferred. I am sure my vet knows this answer, but I do not. I need to be as knowledgeable as possible to help with getting this lil boy cured, also in another post you wrote "c diff which is extremely difficult to get rid of." so now I need to ask, in dogs, is there a cure if this is what it is. I need to tell something else, but I loose so many of my replies and have to start all over again lol, so I am going to tell on your other post.

[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

So sorry to hear of the loss of your Son and your sweet Matese. Cody sounds like a lucky boy to have such a devoted Mom. I hope you are able to figure out what is causing the colitis and Cody is on the mend soon. Sending prayers and best wishes to the both of you.

Thank you so very much, I pray night and day he gets cured. Cody is a city boy, he never ran LOOSE. I have a nice size back yard fenced in (very low fence just to keep dogs in and still see the beauty of the woods behind my house) the first day I took him home I took him to the yard to do his business, OMG, I guess it was his first time ever loose, he ran like a lil grey hound, he LOVES the yard, poor lil thing has not been in it since the first snow fall in Dec. I now have 3 feet of frozen snow, so he is confined to the deck only, he sticks his nose between the lattice looking at HIS yard, then looks at me lol, he's suffering big time from cabin fever lol. He is going to have a awesome Spring and Summer I can't wait. He's such a good lil boy, he deserves the best life ever, and I want to give him that. I pray there is a cure for him. Thank you so much to keep us in your prayers, cody needs all the prayers he can get that there is a cure for this lil boy.

[QUOTE=margaritaville;4401926]Clostridium Difficile in Dogs
The reason I bring up the subject of c diff (clostridium difficile) when you mentioned Sandy is that during the hurricane the sewers and treatment facilities were flooded. Leaving homes that were flooded, streets and beaches in our area contaminated. Iam a nurse and see c diff often since it is easily transferred. The symptoms you describe fit the description.

now I am really getting crazy lol, I just googled clostridium difficile, I read it's Colitis, I REALLY HATE to be a PAIN in the BUTT, but, is clostridium difficile....Colitis?.... then I read humans can catch it from the dog, also house can get infected with this also. I am now in PANIC MODE. Is this possible?

There are many different causes of colitis. Some are transferable some are not. The important thing is till you find out the exact type is that you wash your hands after any contact with stool.

Thank you, you've been extremely helpful

My neighbor's dog had C-diff, and I believe mine did also, though it was never officially diagnosed. Also I've seen many people complaining of their dogs having diarrhea/soft stools with no help from their vets. Maybe this is becoming more common in the pet population and should be tested for sooner rather than later.

Matese, I am very sorry you lost your son, and I am sorry you had to say goodbye to your Maltese.

I hope you can find the solution to Cody's problem and get him on the road to recovery soon.

Thank you very much for your kind words. I pray he can get cured I read prolonged colitis can lead to cushings disease, My last baby had that for years, he's so young, has many years ahead of him. I pray all the time he will be cured. I have an excellent vet, Thank you again

As a wife to a plumber, I can tell you that bottled water is no safer than tap water. Every year my husband has to take a continuing education class to maintain his license and every year he comes home and tells me horror stories.


Consider this.... They collect spring water and take it to their plant, where they clean it, and purify it. They add nothing to it. They also add nothing to kill bacteria, which is fine if you immediately open it and drink it, but you don't. They store it in their warehouse. Their heat of the summer warehouse. Then it gets loaded onto a box truck, where it's shipped across the US to different stores, again in the heat of summer or cold of winter, who knows?. Then, it's received at the store, where it sits in their warehouse, until time to put it on the shelf, where it again, sits. So there's no telling how long it's been since everything was stripped from your good, clean, spring water, including the good stuff, has been in the heat, how many warehouses and trucks it's been on, and how long it's been on the shelf in that store before you take it home and drink it. And it's been growing bacteria the entire time.

At least tap water has stuff in it to kill bacteria, but your best bet is to filter the tap water as you use it.

I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your son and your aunt. Then having to put down Maltese. You have been though a lot.

I almost lost my Kitty this year. He stopped eating and had blood and mucus in his diarrhea. They gave him antibiotics for a week. Then the stopped for a few days and had it again. Gave him more antibiotics for a month. I was still having problems getting him to eat. He was one of those cats would eat anything. I tried so wet foods and finally got something he liked. He wouldn't touch the dry. I finally found one he would eat after trying bags and bags.


He was not getting better. He was so thin. Mind, he had blood work, nothing. And we did X-rays and sonogram. Still nothing. He started throwing up the antibiotics. I stopped them. I finally started to look holistically. A Biewer breeder recommended Vitality Science. She told me to talk to Steve. I have to say I am giving him three different items and it is working well. He gained some weight and wants to eat. Maybe talk to a holistic vet or take him to a specialist. Sometimes even your best vet can't figure it out.

https://www.vitalityscience.com