Yesterday morning, hubby forgot to shut the kitchen gate when he brought flash in from a potty break. Flash went out and ate a whole bowl (about 2 cups maybe?) of cat food. Then he wanted nothing to do with his food throughout the day. Well we went fishing around 6 pm and since I didn't want him getting hungry, I put his food in his kennel.
We came home at 11 pm to a freaking mess-diarrhea and puked up dog food all over the kennel He is drinking very very small amounts of water but refusing to eat even canned food. Still had a pretty bad bout of diarrhea around 11 am today, so I called the vet. At this point the puking is now more like water or foamy-but sticky enough I have to wipe it away from his mouth.
The vet thinks it is from the cat food, since it is something he isn't used to and he had an excessive amount of. Not sure I totally believe that, but thats not the point. He told me to give him about a teaspoon of pepto bismal and to keep the access to water open, but no food for another 12 hours because it needs to run its course until everything is out. Around midnite is when he can have more food-and at that point only 1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons of dry food at a time, every 2 hours. If he isn't doing better by noon tomorrow to bring him in.
What do you guys think of all this? I am in the middle of nowhere, I love my vet but he is more "old school" and not as technologically advanced as other vets. Flash is lazing around today, been sleeping on me for the past hour (just moved him to the couch to type this). He isn't running, chasing the cats, biting toes, nothing that is the "normal" for him. His nose was cold last night so I slept on the couch with him until almost 6 am. Today his feet feel cold so I have kept him wrapped in a blanket. His feet are normal feeling now but I don't like seeing my pup like this!
As far as I know, he did not eat anything out of the ordinary yesterday except the cat food. He did get a new treat around lunchtime, a chicken jerky treat by Milo's kitchen. Can anyone think of any other reason he would be like this, or anything else I can do? I am assuming he gobbled his food when we left around 6, so he hasn't eaten since then-holding food from him til midnite seems mean but at the same time he has no desire to eat anyway.
Sorry this is so long, I just don't like seeing him sick! I will say he is moving around a little more than he did last night, he does walk up to the cat but doesn't play like normal. Last night he just layed around all curled up. Thanks for reading this, it ended up much longer than I anticipated but I didn't want to forget anything!
We came home at 11 pm to a freaking mess-diarrhea and puked up dog food all over the kennel He is drinking very very small amounts of water but refusing to eat even canned food. Still had a pretty bad bout of diarrhea around 11 am today, so I called the vet. At this point the puking is now more like water or foamy-but sticky enough I have to wipe it away from his mouth.
The vet thinks it is from the cat food, since it is something he isn't used to and he had an excessive amount of. Not sure I totally believe that, but thats not the point. He told me to give him about a teaspoon of pepto bismal and to keep the access to water open, but no food for another 12 hours because it needs to run its course until everything is out. Around midnite is when he can have more food-and at that point only 1 1/2 to 2 teaspoons of dry food at a time, every 2 hours. If he isn't doing better by noon tomorrow to bring him in.
What do you guys think of all this? I am in the middle of nowhere, I love my vet but he is more "old school" and not as technologically advanced as other vets. Flash is lazing around today, been sleeping on me for the past hour (just moved him to the couch to type this). He isn't running, chasing the cats, biting toes, nothing that is the "normal" for him. His nose was cold last night so I slept on the couch with him until almost 6 am. Today his feet feel cold so I have kept him wrapped in a blanket. His feet are normal feeling now but I don't like seeing my pup like this!
As far as I know, he did not eat anything out of the ordinary yesterday except the cat food. He did get a new treat around lunchtime, a chicken jerky treat by Milo's kitchen. Can anyone think of any other reason he would be like this, or anything else I can do? I am assuming he gobbled his food when we left around 6, so he hasn't eaten since then-holding food from him til midnite seems mean but at the same time he has no desire to eat anyway.
Sorry this is so long, I just don't like seeing him sick! I will say he is moving around a little more than he did last night, he does walk up to the cat but doesn't play like normal. Last night he just layed around all curled up. Thanks for reading this, it ended up much longer than I anticipated but I didn't want to forget anything!