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04-26-2013, 05:45 PM | #31 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Sending prayer and peaceful thoughts your way......lifting Tibbe up in prayers of healing! May peace be with you.....
__________________ Proud Mommy to Max, Teeka, Tatiana and forever in my heart Tameka! My sunshine doesn't come from the skies, it comes from my puppies eyes! |
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04-26-2013, 05:45 PM | #32 | |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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So concerned about you as well af Tibbe....have you heard anything yet from your vet? | |
04-26-2013, 05:48 PM | #33 |
Jada + Bogie = ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Mayberry AKA smalltown usa
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| Jeanie just now seeing this and sending prayers for Tibbe. I know he is your heart. Praying its nothing serious.
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04-26-2013, 05:54 PM | #34 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I am so grateful to you all and Tibbe is going to be okay. Once again, his fecal, urine, bloodwork and heartworm tests all WNL - no elevated liver anything no nothing. I told the vet I was so certain that this time he would have something show up due to his pattern of this happening so often, being better for a while and then so sick again. She said she could palpate nothing in his body and his tummy was now soft and nontender. He ate for her, he drank and he was grouching at them to let him out of his cage. I had to wait forever to see her as they were so busy - had had emergencies and then Tibbe come in without appointment so it was late before I got out of there with his medicine and new food and then I had to go by the pharmacy and wait at the call-window behind 3 cars to get my prescription and now home. Just gave him his medicine and he's in my lap now. Thank God and thank YT and the vet. The vet and I had a long talk over this long history of these bouts and she said she is pretty sure his "grazing" outside is doing it and he's got a "sensitive" tummy. She put him on 10 ml. K-Pectin po q 8 hrs and a low fat diet, saying she wanted to see if he did better on easier to digest food and less fat for 2 weeks. She wanted to put him on Royal Canin Low-Fat but he had itched so badly the last time we tried the RC GI that she put him on Hills I/D Low-Fat, 1/4 cup twice daily and I may use a little extra for his "treats". She says that she treats little dogs with tummies like this all the time and it is just a matter of trying to keep them from eating things out of the yard and try the Rx foods until we hit on the right thing for a while, then try a regular food again and see. I told her I don't think there is that much stuff in my yard for him to eat except what the occasional cat or squirrel or bird brings in but if there is anything, he will manage to find it down in the grass and be eating it before I even know it. I can't help but worry that something is going on with him but she swears that if it were, some blood value or something would be showing up by now and almost promised me he's not really gravely ill somehow and that dogs really can have tummies like this. She said if this doesn't work, we'll try another food. In a way, I feel like I over-reacted so badly but in another, I am still worried. I so wish we could get to the bottom of what is going on but I am so grateful to hear his labs are all okay I could faint right now. I was so happy to get him back in my arms okay and not bad sick I just cried like a fool when I got outside the vet clinic! Am certain anybody that saw me thought I was crazy as a loon or had just lost a dog. And Tibbe was in his little carrier whining because I was crying and we were both a mess. We got in the truck and I let him out of his carrier and the little guy just kissed all the wet tears all away and just looked at me so long right in the face. I told him what a precious baby he was and thanked him for coming home to me and he just stared back at me. So after a while back he went into his carrier we drove off to get my prescription and now are thankfully home. I am so grateful for all of your support and being so sweet. I'm so happy but still worried and so hoping the Rx and the food will help him. So sorry to scare everyone but it just seemed that he'd been having such a pattern of this for so long, I was just convinced it had to be something dreadful going on and that finally it was manifesting itself as today is the first time he's has such a thin diarrhea stool with so much mucus. And the way he was just standing with his little head hanging down, even after Pepto and with those loud gastric sounds. But, apparently he's not very very ill and is hopefully going to be okay. I don't know how I'll bear it when the day comes he does ever get really ill. He's just one in a million dogs - I have never had another one like this who does everything he does with an extra flourish - and the thought I could possibly lose him was just racing in my head. I know - I'm crazy but you'd have to know him to know he's extra extra extra special. I apologize - I shouldn't have made it sound so dire but I sure thought this time it was going to be, especially when they kept not calling me and I was too scared to call them!!! But they were just very busy and I did take him in late. All I can do is beg off for being a scared fool and thank you as graciously as I can for caring. All your sweet posts have me crying again - and I don't cry - except over dogs and soldiers - and your sweet hearts for sending such touching thoughts. I thank you so much for being there, YT'ers. You each are "Tibbe" people to me - extra extra extra special. ♥♥♥
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-26-2013, 06:00 PM | #35 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Prayer answered! Bless your heart and thank the Lord!
__________________ Proud Mommy to Max, Teeka, Tatiana and forever in my heart Tameka! My sunshine doesn't come from the skies, it comes from my puppies eyes! |
04-26-2013, 06:01 PM | #36 |
I love TBCG! Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: MD
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| Jeanie I am glad Tibbe is ok. I can understand your concern you are good Mom and he's lucky to have you
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04-26-2013, 06:13 PM | #38 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | Girl please!!! You have NOTHING to apologize for. I would have been the same way. These precious babies steal our hearts with their love and trust. I will continue to pray for Tibbe. Hopefully, everything the vet is doing will help him. Hang in there momma...he will be okay. Here is hoping both of you sleep peacefully tonight.
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04-26-2013, 06:35 PM | #39 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Location: Boston MA
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| happy to hear you and Tibbie are ok.... |
04-26-2013, 06:37 PM | #40 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 9,462
| Rather safe than sorry!! Overreact and it is nothing, no harm done....sit on something that is major, and you KNOW how that can end up....you did the right thing....ALWAYS, opt for "over reacting"!! Did you think to remember to mention about the Heartguard maybe a possible antagonist? I am just thrilled that precious little smiling baby is home with his momma, on the mend! Thank you God, for prayers answered! You always are hanging around, just waiting to help us when we call out for help! Thank you Lord, for that..... |
04-26-2013, 06:50 PM | #41 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| Poor little guy. He's still not himself. He's got hiccups, is growling a lot at sounds he hears and will get down from my lap and stand across the room looking at me. He did finally eat some food and got his piece of kibble "treat" for eating dinner and is back on my lap. But his verve and energy seem totally lacking. That's the way he was this morning, just listless and odd. Now he's growling at me - that whiny growling with the tip of his tongue sticking out. Better go and see what he wants. Thanks again, you guys.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-26-2013, 06:51 PM | #42 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| Oh no. I was hoping this was over for him. JMO, yes, it could be a yorkie tummy thing. I personally would just do the bile acids test to make sure. Liver enzymes are not always elevated when their is a problem. Some gets (including jy own) don't/didn't know this. It has been happening way too long to not check.
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04-26-2013, 07:10 PM | #43 | |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis | |
04-26-2013, 07:13 PM | #44 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Long Island, New York
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| Tibbe has surely captured my heart, and it always hurts me to hear that he is ill. Your stories of him have brought this little character of yours to life for me, far more than a character in a story. I feel like I really know him, and I have grown to care about both you and Tibbe. I know you will take extra care of your sweet boy, but please take care of yourself, too. With your love, protection, and wonderful care, Tibbe will get better very soon. I am counting on it.
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04-26-2013, 07:17 PM | #45 | |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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i know many fets don't recommend if liver values are normal. Mine didn't. i had to request it. Glad I did because sure enough they were out of range. Tibbe's may be perfectly normally, butit is worth a check. If normal then I'd lean oward what your vet is saying...idiopathic tummy troubles.
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