DOG VET HELP NEEDED PLEASE!

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Is anyone on here a small animlas vet?! Need some urgent advice for my dog please.

My dog tilly has been off her food for a couple of days, on friday the vets said she had a high temperature so gave her one injection to birng it down , and also another in order to try to settle her tummy. She has been trying to eat but holding her tummy really tight then trying to be sick after. now she is laying on the sofa with a bloated stomach , dowsy eyes, and heavy breathing - the vets are not open until the morning is there anything i can do to make sure her temperature stays low?
 
Phone your vet, listen to message, make a note of emergency number, phone that number.
When you need urgent advice this is not the place to come.
 
If she looks bloated that is an emergency. Call your ooh vets now and describe her symptoms as you have here and get her down there now. It's not worth the risk. Could be GDV. Sounds like it might not be from previous symptoms, but she needs vet looking at, not a forum advice. I don't care if it will cost you a few hundred-call your OOH vet now.
 
Not a vet, but work at vets. You need to see a Vet this evening. Unfortunately you can do more harm than good trying to self treat. Perhaps some blood tests/scans could give you some more insight into whats going on. Hope all goes well and look forward to a positive post sonn. x
 
sounds like dog has eaten something it shouldnt have e.g. horses hoof, chicken bone, rabbit carcass get to the vet ASAP, like now
 
Echo previous comments. Your practice will either divert your call or give you the number for their out of hours service. While it wouldn't be typical history for GDV, I would still be very concerned by the heavy breathing and continuation of clinical signs from Friday, especially as it sounds like she might have had an anti-emetic injection; I am usually quite reluctant to give anti-emetics unless I am positive there is no foreign body, and I always advise a re-visit if a dog continues to vomit through the treatment. Without having seen the dog previously I can't tell you what may or may not be wrong, but if you called me with those symptoms I would tell you to bring the dog down, it is always better to be safe than sorry.
 
Thanks for your help everyone. I took her to the vets that evening and they kept her in overnight as she had a very high temperature and they had to put her on a drip of liquids as she was dehydrated and where she had not eaten much she needed liquids. She came home last night with some anti biotics and a serum to keep her temperature down.
 
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