Poor little Zip has had a terrible time with diarrhea all week long. It got so bad that I took him back to the vet on Tuesday. He tested for all kinds of parasites and all came back negative, so he opted to just treat the symptoms. We stopped the KMR and over-the-counter canned food and kibble immediately to give him special Rx canned food (expensive!) all to no avail. By Friday he had gone from extremely loose mucous-laden stools to absolute brown liquid squirting out. And his poor little anus was incredibly irritated and red. He also had to endure daily baths and Gina had a horrible mess to clean up in the bathroom each evening when she got home from work. Ugh.....
I was concerned that he might have been dehydrated. He hadn't gained any weight while Code has put on a half-pound over the last week. So I took him back to the vet on Friday and he tested him for all kinds of bacterial infections. Again, all tests came back negative. But he gave him some antibiotics and meds to treat for bacteria. This seems to have helped. Yesterday and today Zip is back to extremely loose stools. Hopefully he'll start putting on weight soon.
Here's some more videos of him & Code before the diarrhea commenced.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment