Help!! Need advice I have a sick Lab??

[Paul & Michele]

Hello!  I know he isn't a doodle he is one of our spoiled fur kids,,, we have had him since he was 6 weeks old, he is now 10 years old.  We live in Kansas and the weather here has been extremely HOT, we are talking actual temp @ 105-110 everyday.  Brady (our lab) has always been really muscular and solid weighing in around 110-120lbs. he now weighs less than 80lbs.  All of a sudden he can't eat anything without throwing it up.  I have been making him rice with chicken and hamburger to try to get something to stay down him and nothing seems to work.  Molly (our goldendoodle) is still eating just fine and not getting sick so it can't be the food.  I though maybe it was because it was so hot so we have been keeping him inside in the daytime now and at nighttime. He really likes to be outside in the daytime but it is too hot for him.  We took him to the vet and he thought he had a kidney infection and gave him a shot of amoxicillan  and some pills to take.  They did not help.  He is still drinking water but still losing alot of weight.  We are going to take him to another vet tonight and have them do some blood tests.  Has anyone else ever had this happen?  I'm not sure what it is, how it happened or how to fix it.   I feel really bad for him because I know he isn't feeling well.  Any advice would be helpful....Thank you....

Update:  We took Brady to the vet as soon as we got home from work and they checked him over and did 2 blood test one came back ok and the other their machine wsan't working right so they said they would know tomorrow.  Of course it's the one that wil leet them know how his kidneys and liver are.  They gave us a can of food to try and he wouldn't even touch it he's at 75 lbs.  Hopefully they call first thing in the morning..

Update #2:((Wed. pm) The vet called and said they needed more blood so we are going to take hime back in a little bit so they can get some more.  They said his blood had alot of fat in it what ever that means so they could get a reading from it.

UPDATE #3: (Thursday am)  We took Brady back to the vet and they took more blood and said that all of his blood test looked good and normal. They said there was a chance he could have cancer and wanted to hook him up to an IV for 4 days and do x-rays and a sonogram.  This unfortunately isn't an option for us right now.  He got sick all over right after we got him back home from the vets so they gave us some anti nausea medicine and we called his original vet back (he doesn't do lab work like x-rays and blood tests) and we took him out to him last night and he gave him a shot of penicillin and said we could try this for 6 days and hopefully it would help along with the nausea med and we might be able to get him back on track.  He said before when we were giving him the pills he was prob just throwing them back up and so they never got a chance to work and by giving him the shots it will start to work right away and he shouldn't get sick from them.  We have our fingers crossed.  We feed him some sliced turkey deli meat  and some rice with a little gravy on it to give it some flavor and so far he has kept it down and is wagging his tail a little more this morning.
Update #4:  (Thursday pm) Well things were starting to look up this morning and then tonight after we gave him his shot of penicillin and his cerenia pills for the vomiting he started acting all down again and just lays there and then got sick twice a little and won't eat (  i bought baby food , sliced turkey , every kind of canned dog food pedigree makes, hamburger, hotdogs)  or drink and is drooling way way more than normal.  I just got done talking with my husband he's thinking about calling the vet tomorrow if he isn't better he doen't want to see him suffer anymore if he isn't going to get any better and he really needs to eat.  Then I looked at the box for side effects for the cerenia and it can cause depression , weight loss, hypersalivatation, loss of appitiet and vomiting of all things which is the reason they gave it to us in the first place.  So now tomorrow we are not going to give him the pills to stop vomiting because they are not helping they are making it worse and we are going to see what we can get him to keep down.  He did eat some things this morning and kept it down til after he took his pills this evening.  I wish he would get better.  Molly "doodle" is sticking very close to him but also staying out of his way I think she knows he feels bad. Today my stepson was playing his x-box and she was laying on his bed w him and he said about every 15 minutes she would get down go check on Brady and then come back and lay down.  Hopefully tomorrow is a better day...  Thank you all for your well wishes , thoughts and advice. 

[shelly]

How's Brady this morning? Hope he has 'good' news for you! This is like when your kids are sick and you don't want them to say "it's a virus".... hope they have something they can do for him!!!

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

Tara and I are keeping our paws and fingers crossed that your vet finds something easily fixable for poor Brady!! Doodle hugs to all of you!!!

[Ellen aka BeauBeau's Mom]

How is Brady doing? Hope he's OK!

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

I hope it is not cancer and that the nausea shots start working. Keep us posted!

[shelly]

Awe... poor Brady... Hopefully the shot will get right to work! Glad he he eating and wagging! Let's just hope for the best... I know exactly what you are going thru' that happened to our GR too - with the cancer. It was in his nose and the only way we knew was an x-ray... BUT he was NOT throwing up.... just lethargic and snorted a lot.... at first they thought it may have been kennel cough or allergies.... after months we insisted with our doubt of the allergy diagnosis and finally found out... of course we would have rather it be allergies than cancer, but at least we knew. I am sending good thoughts...

[Ellen aka BeauBeau's Mom]

whenever I cannot get Beau to eat anything else, the one thing he will always scarf down is a chicken hot dog with cheese inside. I hope Brady is better soon! Any news? Paws crossed for him!!