Pen is poorly

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This morning Pen wasn't my shadow like she normally is, but I was busy and didn't really think. I came in from doing morning jobs and she was in her bed but I thought it was as she have finally got a conscience about stealing the hen's food and had heard me swear at a chicken. (She is a lab, so unlikely really to ever get worried about food theft).
Went out for a few hours and got home but although she was pleased to see me she was whimpering and intermittently yelping. Very odd and worrying.
Whizzed her straight to the vets (she ran to the car and put her paws up to be lifted in, like normal) and she yelped on and off all the way there, about 10 minutes. The vet prodded and poked and manipulated, had her trotted back and forth and all fine, not a yelp or whimper. She does have a slight temperature. Vet gave antiflams and I am to drop a urine sample off tomorrow morning. (She had a urine infection about 2 weeks ago, but that cleared up very quickly with ABs). Rest and monitor over the weekend and then full work up and bloods/x rays on Monday if still poorly.
She does seem almost quite her old self now but I am not sure if that is the jab talking. Poor Pen pup.
 
Mr C hadn't noticed anything wrong. :-)
She is 6 months, she is very leggy and a bit elbows out, but completely sound, the vet checked with manipulation for elbow and hip problems and growing pains, all no reaction. I immediately thought elbows I must admit, as her conformation isn't dead straight, so was relieved to have it checked. Fingers crossed.
 
I was going to say that there could be a question mark over lifting her in to the car, but then if she isn't really accustomed to car travel, considering your lifestyle — farm etc., I'm sure that will come in time and it would be understandable. Also, if she puts her front feet up to be lifted in, I'd doubt that her elbows or hips are the problem.

Anyway, I'd very much doubt that her demeanour and lack of interest is joint or skeletal influenced, considering her youth. More likely it's gut ache, for some reason. How is she now? Is she still subdued?

Alec.
 
She has always been terrified of the car and pick up, and has only just got OK about going in them, she still isn't bold enough to hurl herself in, but to her, jumping up at it is a great sign. She is quite a timid little thing.
She has now gone 'sad' again, so I assume the painkiller is wearing off.
I wish I knew what it was, but hopefully she has just eaten something even more disgusting than usual and is regretting it.
 
MrsM and TP, thank you for your thoughts. I am sure I worry more about the dogs than I ever did about the children!
 
Sounds more like a tummy ache. I thought my rufty tufty dog was dying or something early last year. He just had a bug and a bit of wind. He's normally a right thug but he was so subdued, whiny, squeaked getting out of the car, wouldn't raise his head and kept lying down.

He perked back up again after a week or so (after x-ray, anti bs and a mahoosive bill lol). Fingers crossed she is on the mend soon.
 
She has just done a poo and it has some odd white lumps in it... Hopefully just a culinary misjudgement.
She has been eating cherries off the lawn but all our dogs have always done that. It is not cherry pips she is passing, too square.
 
CorvusCorax said:
Sounds more like a tummy ache. I thought my rufty tufty dog was dying or something early last year. He just had a bug and a bit of wind. He's normally a right thug but he was so subdued, whiny, squeaked getting out of the car, wouldn't raise his head and kept lying down.

He perked back up again after a week or so (after x-ray, anti bs and a mahoosive bill lol). Fingers crossed she is on the mend soon.
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Sounds the same, fingers crossed. She farts like a trooper at the best of times.
 
Oh bless her. I have just fenced off two cherry trees, the pips, leaves and stalks contain a fair amount of cyanide which can cause a problem if much is ingested, in addition to the problem of impaction from the stones. We decided as we are about to leave home for 2 weeks we would be over protective rather than worry.
 
Thanks all. She seems quite her old self today, but can have an easy one and we shall see. I will drop a wee sample off at the vets just to check there is not a lurking infection.
 
Poor Pen pup :(

I remember reading that a dog would need to eat 3kg of apple pips to be affected by the teeny amount of cyanide in them, hopefully the same goes for cherry pips. I would have been nosy and investigated the white lumps but I'm weird that way!

Hope she's back to normal soon.
 
She is fine, having had no walk this morning she is now running laps of the garden with the old lab - who really should know better.

CT - in a sober state I would have investigated, but I had finished most of a bottle of wine and did not feel strong enough. :-). In teresting about the apple pips theory, our dogs have always eaten apple cores, and fruit cake, and anything and everything.
 
Thank you JB, she was a little off colour again yesterday afternoon, just being a bit 'careful' really, but again seems right as rain this morning.
Dogs!
 
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