Dog with upset tummy

[Birker2020]

Our dog had an upset tummy and was sick on Saturday after leaving her at Mum's - we got back after doing the weekly shop to find two piles of sick. We think it was bacon rasher treats that Mum had in the cupboard, they were in date but it was the only thing we could think she'd had differently.

She didn't have lunch yesterday as we thought we'd give her tummy a rest but had a small tea last night. She's bright, happy to go for a walk and full of life and was like this both yesterday and presenting the same today.

Fast forward to lunch time today and all was well so partner gave her lunch at his brothers, left her to go back to work but when he got back four hours later she'd made a mess on the kitchen floor (diarrhoea).

Brought her home then we went to Curry's to try and get a new fridge freezer, when we got back she'd had the trots again, diarrhoea all over the lounge floor, no sick.

We think there may be a very slim possibilty that our fridge hasn't kept the turkey that we give her fresh as it's losing the ability to stay at an ambient temperature so just in case we are going to throw out what we've bought and start again. It doesn't smell and is cold, but not as cold as it should be. We've been eating cold meats and salad and been okay.

We are going to starve her overnight. When do you suggest we try her with food again?

She's sat by my feet asking to go for a walk so is happy in herself.

 

[Redders]

It’s no longer recommended to starve them, the intestinal cells need the nutrition to recover and perform their job properly, it’s recommended to feed a bland diet, such as formulated gastric food which is full of tummy friendly bacteria and nutrients, or chappie.
It’s been a while since Saturday so contacting your vets for some free advice or an appointment if they recommend would be a reasonable next step

 

[meesha]

We use YuMove Digestive Care Plus, one sachet seems to sort it out, we sprinkle it over chicken, repeat until sorted. Poppy doesn't eat if unwell till feeling better but we leave biscuits and water out. You can get it on amazon next day or vets/pet shops might have it. It's miraculous stuff !!

 

[Birker2020]

don't look if sensitive

 

[Birker2020]

She brought this up earlier, today's lunch. Don't look if sensitive, but none of its been digested.

 

[misst]

Moti does that sort of undigested vomit sometimes but he has an odd digestive system. If Ruby did it I would give the tinned prepared food for upset stomachs my vets sell. Can't remember the brand. More than a couple of vomits or diarrhoea episodes in the house - vets for me. But I am paranoid since she nearly died 2 years ago

 

[AmyMay]

She brought this up earlier, today's lunch. Don't look if sensitive, but none of its been digested.

It takes a long time for food to be digested.

Is that ham in it?

 

[druid]

Bland diet (mashed sweet potato and turkey mince) is recommended now over the old chicken/rice. Easier to digest, insoluble fibre to bulk out stool and less likely to cause any intolerances than chicken. Most diarrhoea is fibre responsive.

 

[Birker2020]

It takes a long time for food to be digested.

Is that ham in it?

Yes a bit of ham, mainly turkey and chicken and dog biscuits that don't even look like they're chewed. Most odd.

 

[DSB]

Otto,"daxie"vomited Friday evening,not quite himself Saturday and Saturday evning/night,horrendous d'hea x 11
Vets Sunday morning,high temp and now on antibiotics
Slowly recovering,still on pain meds
Suggest a vet visit for your dog and perhaps a new refrigerator

 

[CorvusCorax]

If a dog has V&D for more than a few days I call the vet. Small amounts of Chappie original tins are my go-to initially to settle the stomach.

My young dog has upchucked undigested food in the past if hyper/done too much running around after eating.

I wouldn't be giving her that sort of mixture of dog food and cooked meats until her stomach has settled a bit.

 

[Birker2020]

Otto,"daxie"vomited Friday evening,not quite himself Saturday and Saturday evning/night,horrendous d'hea x 11
Vets Sunday morning,high temp and now on antibiotics
Slowly recovering,still on pain meds
Suggest a vet visit for your dog and perhaps a new refrigerator

If you look at para 4 we ordered a new fridge freezer but they can't deliver till Friday.

She's her normal happy self but obviously if we think she is poorly she will go to the vet. She has an upset tummy.

 

[Birker2020]

If a dog has V&D for more than a few days I call the vet. Small amounts of Chappie original tins are my go-to initially to settle the stomach.

My young dog has upchucked undigested food in the past if hyper/done too much running around after eating.

I wouldn't be giving her that sort of mixture of dog food and cooked meats until her stomach has settled a bit.

Unfortunately she has never eaten dog food with us, when we first had her we tried her on five different brands/flavours but she managed to hold out for four days before we relented and starting feeding her chicken, beef and turkey.

She won't go near a tin of chappie, she's incredibly fussy about canned food and is equally fussy with treats, she often turns her nose up at a treat at the vets or pet shop.

She still seems bright today so we will have to see if she can hold something light. We were going to boil her a bit of white fish but the remainder of our frozen stuff is at Mum's when we did a mercy dash last night with the temperamental fridge freezer.

 

[AmyMay]

Unfortunately she has never eaten dog food with us, when we first had her we tried her on five different brands/flavours but she managed to hold out for four days before we relented and starting feeding her chicken, beef and turkey.

She won't go near a tin of chappie, she's incredibly fussy about canned food and is equally fussy with treats, she often turns her nose up at a treat at the vets or pet shop.

She still seems bright today so we will have to see if she can hold something light. We were going to boil her a bit of white fish but the remainder of our frozen stuff is at Mum's when we did a mercy dash last night with the temperamental fridge freezer.

Just as an aside, and not having a dig at you.

Jack went on hunger strike when we first had him. He ate what I wanted him to have after 4, maybe 5 days.

My friends really fussy dogs are staying at the moment. She’s slightly shocked at my ‘they eat it or go hungry’ attitude. I’m not faffing and chopping and sprinkling any dogs food.

As the vet said, they’re essentially wolfs. If they don’t eat for a few days, so be it.

 

[Birker2020]

Just as an aside, and not having a dig at you.

Jack went on hunger strike when we first had him. He ate what I wanted him to have after 4, maybe 5 days.

My friends really fussy dogs are staying at the moment. She’s slightly shocked at my ‘they eat it or go hungry’ attitude. I’m not faffing and chopping and sprinkling any dogs food.

As the vet said, they’re essentially wolfs. If they don’t eat for a few days, so be it.

Yes I agree wholeheartedly with you. If they are hungry enough they will eat, but partner is a soft touch and relents and to be fair to him i have done so before now. We did go through an episode of her eating some chicken and vegetable pouch thing from Wilko's but its the only time in 9 years that she has strayed from her turkey, chicken, beef and ham and it only lasted a few days! We try not to give her ham so much now as I know its got a lot of salt in it, so she is mainly fed turkey.

We rescued her from Beagle Welfare in around 2015 aged almost two and she's always been the same in that she is incredibly fussy. She also has this really weird thing that if you prepare her food and she's in the kitchen she will be desperate to get out of the kitchen and will scratch at the door to go out, and then will sit in the hall always in the same position at the bottom of the stairs until you call her in, we've never trained her to do that but she's always done it.

If you are in the kitchen with her and she sees you are watching her eat she will stop eating until you look away or leave, its most bizarre. I suspect it comes from enforced training long before BW had her at her first two homes (each time she went back to BW) and what she was exposed to as a pup.

I've felt and palpated her tummy this morning and there is nothing amiss and she was running up the garden to chase the neighbours cat so I think its just a case of an upset tummy, goodness knows what she has eaten though, it all sparked off with those blooming bacon rasher treats.

 

[missmatch]

Gastroenteritis and Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis is rife at the minute. We had to rush our young dog to the vets on Saturday and he said every second dog coming in has this bug. Apparently it’s all over Facebook with people warning other dog owners, however I don’t use Facebook. She’s had some injections, she’s on meds for a week and the vet has switched her to Purina proplan veterinary gastro food to allow her tummy to heal. She’s thankfully doing much better but still not quite herself. In most dogs it’s a simple illness but some dogs seem to get it very bad. Fingers crossed your dog will be right as rain soon.

 

[Sandstone1]

Yes I agree wholeheartedly with you. If they are hungry enough they will eat, but partner is a soft touch and relents and to be fair to him i have done so before now. We did go through an episode of her eating some chicken and vegetable pouch thing from Wilko's but its the only time in 9 years that she has strayed from her turkey, chicken, beef and ham and it only lasted a few days! We try not to give her ham so much now as I know its got a lot of salt in it, so she is mainly fed turkey.

We rescued her from Beagle Welfare in around 2015 aged almost two and she's always been the same in that she is incredibly fussy. She also has this really weird thing that if you prepare her food and she's in the kitchen she will be desperate to get out of the kitchen and will scratch at the door to go out, and then will sit in the hall always in the same position at the bottom of the stairs until you call her in, we've never trained her to do that but she's always done it.

If you are in the kitchen with her and she sees you are watching her eat she will stop eating until you look away or leave, its most bizarre. I suspect it comes from enforced training long before BW had her at her first two homes (each time she went back to BW) and what she was exposed to as a pup.

I've felt and palpated her tummy this morning and there is nothing amiss and she was running up the garden to chase the neighbours cat so I think its just a case of an upset tummy, goodness knows what she has eaten though, it all sparked off with those blooming bacon rasher treats.

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I am sorry your dog is poorly. Really though if shes been vomiting since sat she probably needs some help. I am afraid you would not be able to tell by feeling her tummy whats wrong. You are not a vet! She needs bland food and being checked by a vet with probably a anti sickness jab.

 

[Birker2020]

I am sorry your dog is poorly. Really though if shes been vomiting since sat she probably needs some help. I am afraid you would not be able to tell by feeling her tummy whats wrong. You are not a vet! She needs bland food and being checked by a vet with probably a anti sickness jab.

Ok I will see if I can book her in and one of us can take her after work. I feel like I'm going to explode with everything that is going on at the moment.

 

[Sandstone1]

Ok I will see if I can book her in and one of us can take her after work. I feel like I'm going to explode with everything that is going on at the moment.

I understand how you feel... Its always something isnt it? Better to get her checked now than leave it to turn in to a bigger issue.

 

[scats]

We have been awash with vomit for a couple of days. They still want to eat though, so it’s boiled chicken etc. First JD and now the little one.
No diarrhoea though. When ours get a bug it goes through the three of them.

 

[paisley]

Would suggest getting a few bottles of Oralade (vets or online) to help recovery- I’m sure they’re drinking plenty but the electrolytes are helpful during upset tum sessions.

 

[CorvusCorax]

I know it's really tough for you at the moment but it is better to act now before something worse happens. You know in your heart of hearts that something is up or you wouldn't have posted.
I'm sorry if the answers are not what you want to hear.

They can go downhill very quickly/it can be very damaging if they are starved of nutrients for days, which IS what happens with prolonged V&D/they can't keep anything up or down and I would also query a blockage. Some items can be in there for months before problems start to present, hopefully it's not that.

Agree with AmyMay, I've never known a dog to starve itself.

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Yes a bit of ham, mainly turkey and chicken and dog biscuits that don't even look like they're chewed. Most odd.

Dogs don't really chew biscuits/kibble, they swallow them whole. If that was a one-off I wouldn't worry about it but as the illness has gone on for a few days now, i would ring the vet.

 

[Birker2020]

We have been awash with vomit for a couple of days. They still want to eat though, so it’s boiled chicken etc. First JD and now the little one.
No diarrhoea though. When ours get a bug it goes through the three of them.

I think there has been some confusion with this thread. Summer very much want's to eat. She was scrounging around this morning for food but we thought we'd starve her until lunch time, I told my partner to stop at the Co-op if they were open on the way to work this morning, and get her some chicken breast. I will speak to my partner about the vets later.

 

[scats]

I think there has been some confusion with this thread. Summer very much want's to eat. She was scrounging around this morning for food but we thought we'd starve her until lunch time, I told my partner to stop at the Co-op if they were open on the way to work this morning, and get her some chicken breast. I will speak to my partner about the vets later.

I’ve booked ours in for the vets later, just to be on the safe side.

 

[CorvusCorax]

There's no confusion on my part, my point is that 'oh, my dog won't eat that' is usually where the dog hangs on for a few days until the good stuff gets brought out

Just for guidance, my old dog used to be a complete gannet and would eat anything and everything, I could swap brands of food willy nilly. Now he's older, if I add anything like cooked meats, anything salty, fatty, sugary or not just the plain dry food he is used to, it can knock his stomach off for days, so that might be a consideration, going forward.

 

[skinnydipper]

Yes I agree wholeheartedly with you. If they are hungry enough they will eat, but partner is a soft touch and relents and to be fair to him i have done so before now. We did go through an episode of her eating some chicken and vegetable pouch thing from Wilko's but its the only time in 9 years that she has strayed from her turkey, chicken, beef and ham and it only lasted a few days! We try not to give her ham so much now as I know its got a lot of salt in it, so she is mainly fed turkey.

I think a vet visit today wouldn’t come amiss, you could ask them to have a look at her ears while you are there.

Sometimes dogs don’t make the best dietary choices and that is where we need to be the grown up and do what we feel is best for their health.

If she was mine I would put her back onto the prescription diet for food allergies as advised by your vet and nothing else. Give it chance to work and see if her skin and ears improve. You have nothing to lose.

 

[Birker2020]

Partner has taken her with him to work this afternoon and reports that she's kept her dinner down and been playing happily with her friend. Fingers crossed.

 

[NR88]

I would not let a dog of mine mix with outside dogs when they possibly have a virus, or some sort of bug.

Too late now but perhaps something to keep in mind.

If one of mine got ill when the owner knew that their dog had been violently ill for an extended period and let them mix I'd be livid.

 

[Birker2020]

I would not let a dog of mine mix with outside dogs when they possibly have a virus, or some sort of bug.

Too late now but perhaps something to keep in mind.

If one of mine got ill when the owner knew that their dog had been violently ill for an extended period and let them mix I'd be livid.

She's not been violently ill, she's just had a tummy upset. Dogs do this from time to time.

She kept her lunch down albeit very small and has just wolfed down her tea (chicken breast we've just picked up from Tescos local.) She's sparky, happy, has just jumped off the bed and run downstairs after hearing us come through the front door after we've got back from seeing Mum and leapt all over us. It was my partners boss who told my partner to bring Summer back to work after his lunch break so he's not bothered.

She is obviously feeling much better.

Update; held down all solids eaten yesterday, wolfed down a small breakfast today, no squits.

Thanks for the help everyone