Scrappington is at the vet with a bloody abscess in his mouth
 

I don't know what happened but bf found it after his dinner last night. He always chews his toys after dinner and he saw blood on his tan colored stuffed toy. It was under his tongue and very swollen, his teeth were all black from the blood. I couldn't sleep at all last night! I brought him in this AM and the vet's office said he's doing well and I can pick him up at 8 tonight. Still don't know what caused it. He just had a dental a few months ago, same vet, and they extracted three teeth.

Anybody every heard of anything like this before? We'd appreciate some well wishes. Thanks everyone.

ETA: they had to sedate him to drain the blood blister or what ever it was and I guess stitch him back up or remove it. I will get more answers tonight when I get to talk to the vet and not just the techs.

Poor Scrappington! Sending prayers and well wishes.

Tell him to lay off the hot sauce on his kibble. Kidding! I don't have any idea what would cause this.

Give him a hug from me.

sending scrappington well wishes poor little guy

Praying for scrappington.
 

Keeping you and your pup in my prayer's. Hope he is doing better.:getwellso Scrappington. Your daddy did a good job getting you to the vet when he
did. Hope you are feeling better.
Anne/Luci:animal-pa

No, I haven't when a dental was so recently done. Maybe there just was a fast developing cavity too small to see at dental and just went wild cooking up an infection once it got going good. Poor little thing. My first Yorkie had an abscessed tooth through the skin which is how I found out about Yorkie predisposition to dental disease! I felt so bad not knowing about his tooth problems for how ever long he'd had that thing until it abscessed! And he had to have another 2 or 3 teeth extracted at the same time as the abscessed one plus a dental and regular dentals after that, of course. I felt like a dog letting him suffer because I didn't know about this problem. Still, even people have clear dental exams & can be back in the dental chair in no time with a bad, bad tooth so it must be fairly common! I had a knot in my neck mid-November, a few days before hip surgery, saw two dentists(a second opinion) and had x-rays and on 12-23-11, I was having an emergency root canal in a tooth above where the knot had been but that both dentists had x-rayed and "cleared" just over a month before!!! I guess it can happen with dogs, too.

Poor baby, I'm sure little Scrappington will be feeling much, much better soon & Tibbe & I send our hugs and best wishes for a fast and speedy recovery.

Thanks so much everyone. Uni is acting kinda sad today, not knowing where Scraps went. She'll be sorry once he gets back to his ball hoarding ways.

Think I should hide all toys until he's all healed up? I can't imagine any of those toys being very clean. Yuck!

I agree that keeping the toys away until he heals is a good idea. Poor guy, surgery and no toys.

Aww poor little Scraps. I hope he feels better soon. Uni better
enjoy having this time for herself. He'll be back spunkier than
ever.

Any updates on El Lenguo?

Oh gosh! Poor little baby. Hope Scraps heals up quickly and comes back to make Uni happy. Even though I am sure it is to torture each other like it is at my house. Sending prayers for a speedy recovery!

Ack! Just realized I'm a bit early asking for updates. Kaji sends kisses to Uni. He said he's willing to keep her company until Scraps is back to his old self again. :)

Hugs to Lord Scrappington!! I hope that fuzz face is back home where he belongs soon.

I'm here at the vet waiting to pick him up. He must be so hungry and tired! I'll report back once I get home. Thx everyone for the well wishes.

Hope he's feeling better soon!

I wash all the stuffed toys in the washer on gentle cycle... all the hard toys go in a bucket of diluted bleach to soak, then rinse 3X, then dried. Mend what I can and toss anything broken. It's fun bc when they get them back, it's like all new toys!

Abcesses can happen if a little chunk of tooth or tartar happens to find it's way into a crevice, or if a tooth breaks during extraction and a bit is left in. Sometimes the vet won't dig around too much if there's alot of blood. Sometimes the pieces work their way out on their own, sometimes not.

Well we are home. Not so great news. It was a granular (?) blister most likely from another bad tooth. The vet extracted it but said if the blister doesn't go away or comes back he will have to refer us to a specialist. I guess this is part of what they say about yorkies having notoriously bad teeth. I have been so lucky with Uni so far. Scraps does have the short muzzle (teddy bear look, hate to say that but that's what people would describe him as), and with that comes the dental problems, not enough room for all the teeth, etc.

He seems fine. He did throw up a big clotted blood ball into my hand on the way home. Good thing I wasn't driving, so I was able to get a spare poop bag and put it in there. bf nearly threw up. It was huge, like the size of their mini tennis balls. Poor Lenguo :(

He was sent home with two pain meds and antibiotic. Hopefully this works. If not, then we have a problem :(:(:( Thank you everyone for you well wishes.

He keep obsessively licking his bed. I put away all his toys, but still he licks his bed. Even if he puts up his head he keeps licking the air. Obviously it is still bothering him. He is alert though. That's good.

Oh yeah, they gave him a pink bandage on his arm. :rolleyes: It matches his blanket.

Scratch what I said, lol... missed the part about it being under his tongue. Hope it all works out well for him. That has to be annoying!

Hope Scraps feels better soon!

Poor Scraps:( I hope the antibiotics do the trick and his poor mouth heals. It has to be very irritating under his tongue like that.

Poor baby. I hope Scraps feels better soon.

Aw, poor kiddo:( Hope the meds work and he's all better soon:love:

hope scraps is feeling better poor lil guy!!

Another sleepless night for him and me. Poor little guy. He threw up three more blood balls last night before we went to bed. The in the middle of the night he got out of his bed bc he needed to pee. Just started peeing on the floor, then fell down into his puddle of pee. :( for some reason anesthesia makes his rear legs like noodles the first few days. Last time I thought it was bc he had his neuter (he had undescended testes) but he's doing it again now too. But last night when BIL came home he trotted to the door. So I dunno. Then his rear foot was soaked in blood. I don't know if he was biting his foot and the blood from his mouth got on there or what. So I had to give him a quick rinse down on his bottom half since he was soaked on pee and blood.

I gave his first dose of meds, hopefully he feels better soon. He still hasn't shown any interest in food, but has been drinking water, quite a bit actually.

im sorry to hear that ....you both need rest and especially him to start healing. keeping you guys in my thoughts that tonight is a better night and he and you get some much needed rest.

Scrappy may have had a seizure this morning a few hours after I gave him his meds. He darted up from his bed and ran over to this water bowl then collapsed. I tried to pick him up and make him stand but his legs gave out like noodles. He hit is head on the floor. His eyes were glazed over and unresponsive but he did not have foam out the mouth nor was he shaking. It was so scary and I didn't know what to do. I just held him and tried to open his mouth a little, I don't know why but I thought it wold help. After about 30 secs his eyes "came back" if you know what I mean. His eyes are alert and responsive now, but he keeps whining and doing this little cough. I don't know if there is dried blood in his mouth or what. The swelling has gone down considerably though.

I boiled some chicken and he still won't eat. He had some water, a lot, this morning, but now won't even take chicken water. I opened his mouth and put a piece of chicken in and he just pushed it back out. Uni meanwhile is begging for chicken and trying to sit on top if him! :(

oh my what a day and evening you have had poor little guy, I have no advice but just wanted to say you guys are in my thoughts and prayers.

Did you call the vet about the seizure? What did he/she say about it?

So scary!

Elvis' seozures are irregular to what I thought a typical seizure was, sometimes he just spaces out and or walks around 'drunk like'.

I'm so sorry he is dealing with this so much for this tough lil guy.

He may be swallowing too muvh bacteria and need intracenious antibiotics.

Definately no toys unless you sterile them and he has them a clean area. Oral infections can quickly go right to the blood or brain nothing to mess around with IMHO.

I hope this clears up quickly.

Can he eat garlic or more importantly will he?

Its great topical quickly absorbed natural antibiotic in conjunction with pharmaceutical antibiotics.

Oh yeah when a tooth is about to abscess its not uncommon the surrounding gums get an infection this why thesr blood blisters happen literally the gum tissue is dying blood is coming in but collecting in an infected area.


Maybe using coconut oil as a mouth cleanser will help a lot in the future.

Oh mine almost never eat while on the pain meds.

I have to res hedule feeding for when meds are wearing off.

Nutrical on tongue.

I thought garlic was a no, no?? thought I read that somewhere....I really hope scraps feels better soon. Poor baby.

Poor scraps :( so sorry you guys are having such a rough patch right now. I hope he\'s feel well soon... When Leo used to have seizures he\'d shake a little and then his legs would give out and he\'d be on his back shaking.... It\'s hard to look at their eyes when theyre doing this because it\'s so scary. Make sure you tell the vet and write everything down like when you tried feeding him and when he seems weak. and if he glazes over again grab a camera and record so you can show that vet what your talking about...