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Thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at such a hard time.

Prayers for Mr. Mogli, you and your family.

thoughts and prayers are with you.

We went to UF today.

They did an ultrasound. Also sending off for lepto test. Won't know for 7 days on that one. They said his kidneys look healthy as far as size, shape, etc go. No lumps, cysts, cancer, scar tissue, etc.

They wanted to keep him and keep on super high fluids going until his #'s stop improving, then send him home to see how he does. They gave us a sliver of hope, so we couldn't turn him down.

The worst case is that he comes home and only lasts days. The best case the doc said is about a year. So it's still all up in the air.

He's so very sick. He would really only have another day or two in him. This way they can try to get him to a stable place and hope that he can rebound at home. At this point they sounded confident that we will have him for a few good days at home ... so as much as we don't want to hurt him or put him through hell and back, we want to try this so we'll know we did everything we could for my little sweet man.

He hasn't eaten good in almost a week now. The Dr said that they would supplement him if he continues not eating.

He may be there for a week or more. It's 2 hours away. We were visiting him locally daily. Two hours away will be more tough. We're going to go this weekend though.

The Dr said that Yorkies are resilient. They're strong, determined, and put up one hell of a fight.

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Originally Posted by mogli (Post 1621235)

This is going to be a long post ...

http://www.myspace.com/mistermogli

My little baby's 7th birthday is Jan 5th. I get upset just thinking that our time together is 50-60% used up ... and I really can't fathom not having him around.

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He was normal most of Sunday ...

Sunday morning we brushed his teeth 'cause his breath was baaaaddd.

Sunday night he went for a car ride with me (it was cold) ... stuck his head out the window as usual ...

Sunday night through Wednesday morning he wasn't eating much ... drank a ton when we put out fresh ice-water. Started acting puny ...

Monday morning he got a bath and dried with hair dryer because it was cold out.

Tuesday night came home to puke and diarrhea everywhere. He was moving as little as possible, seemed very tired.

I gave him chicken breast and rice Wednesday morning and he gobbled it up. Got some energy back, but was still not himself. He wobbled a little, I knew something was very wrong.

I took him to the vet Wednesday morning and they wanted to keep him for blood work and fluids ... said his breath smelled like ketosys or something, indicating kidney problems.

She called me up about an hour later with the blood results saying that most of his kidney numbers were off their scale.

They've had him for 2 days for fluid and antibiotics. Running some special urine test to see if it's bacteria related. Won't have results for 5+ days.

She said if his numbers come down and his appetite improves, and he's not neaseaus he can come home.

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As of this morning, Friday ...

BUN - 123 (was over 130, max)
Creat - 4.4 (was 5.4, max 6.0)
Phosphorous - 13.8 (was over 16, max)
Some anemia measurement was 26.4 -- giving injection to make more red blood cells. Said he'll need several of these.

Good news is that he hasn't puked since 11am yesterday ... but they've been giving him cerinea (anti-puke med). She wants to stop cerinea, to see if he will stop puking.

She wanted his numbers a lot lower. He's been on high IV fluids for 2 days. She wants to keep him for another 2 day period to see what the #'s do.

If he doesn't puke, she'd be open for sending him home with pill medicines and instructions / material for injecting large amounts of fluid under his skin. But only if he's thriving at home, because if he's puking, he'd be losing the medicines that they're giving by IV currently, that we'd do by pill at home.

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In the past he's puked (couple times a month, sometimes more, sometimes way less). But the vet said don't worry about it unless it gets worse ... could just be empty stomach ... try giving pepcid.

In July 2005, he had his teeth cleaned and all his blood #'s were normal. That makes it so hard that his health has declined what I feel is so fast.

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We have another dog, 25lbs ... mixed breed. She is acting pretty normal except missing Mogli. We're having her blood tested today to see if there could be environmental cause.

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My family has always had Yorkies. We've had 3 over the years, not including Mogli. All but one have lived to be almost 14 or better. One exception was about 12 or 13.

He was given to me by my family for my 21st birthday. I'm a guy. I live far away from family. Mogli is my little baby that I raised. He's the 4th yorkie in our family. My dad also has one since Mogli, the 5th baby. Mogli is a ridiculously smart Yorkie ... tons of personality. He really is a shining star ... we've had a lot of yorkies and he is probably the smartest, loudest, most farty pants, snuggliest we've had.

My heart is hurting so bad ...

OMG....I hope Mogli is doing better.
You and Mogli will be our prayers (Rocco and I)

Sending more prayers for your little man. It's so hard to see our babies sick and hurting. Keep the faith and be strong for Mr. Mogli. Hugs and warm puppy kisses from all of us.

I am so terribly sorry that your little Mogli is so sick! We will be praying that the doctors at UF can help him. God bless you all! Please keep us updated.

OH MR MOGLI. MISS BELLA IS SENDING YOU SWEET PUPPY KISSES FROM TAMPA AND HOPING THAT THE DOCS IN G~VILLE HAVE SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU ALL BETTER. I CAN NOT IMAGINE BEING IN YOUR SHOES AND WILL BE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING TO HEAR AN UPDATE. YOU ARE IN OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS:hands:

I"m so sorry this is happening.:(

What kind of food was he eating when this started?

Our prayers are with Mogoli :animal-pa

He eats science diet adult small bites.

He\'s been on science diet all his life ... of course a few times he\'s had other foods ... but not much.

We do buy different types of treats since he eventually tires of them.

Our vet said the food & treats aren\'t on the recall lists ... and we had our other dog tested and her levels are normal. We did that to rule out food and environment.

He\'s always been a pretty good baby. Doesn\'t get into mischief ... so we were trying really hard to think if he could have encountered something. Haven\'t come up with anything ...

Any update on Mr. Mogli?? Hope he\'s feeling better today!!

Poor Mr. Mogli, he is in our thoughts and prayers. I\'m sure he\'ll recover and get back to his normal self really soon. Thank you for the updates, keep them coming.

I hate to here your baby is havig such troubles i will def keep him in my thoughts and prayers

We went down and visited him Satuday and today.

He is not very happy. He hasn\'t eaten much for about 2 weeks now. He is very weak and has lost a lot of muscle. :(

The Dr said that his BUN, Creatine and phosphorous levels are way down! This is direct result of the massive amounts of IV fluids. We were extremely excited to hear that news. They added some potassium and sodium to his IV solution because the fluids altered his electrolytes a little.

Unfortunately, he is still very low on red blood cells and now his platelette count is low. They are talking about maybe needing a transfusion, but not just yet.

He has also started some blood pressure medication, since that was elevated. It hasn\'t been as effective as they wanted ... so there\'s talk about upping the dosage or changing medicine.

They are also talking about other ways to get him nutrients needed.

It sounds like as we are moving forward that this may be more of an acute, possibly bacterial case. There is no way to know for certain.

There is also talk about a feeding tube --- again, too early for certain ... but that would let them give him nutrients, and allow for aggressive fluid administering at home.

We are just really sad holding on to a hope that he\'ll come home soon and rebound. He gets excited to see us, wants to just sleep in our arms and rest. It\'s really tough. We know the Dr is doing everything he possibly can ... and is really keeping an eye on everything.