So much harder than it has to be.

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

I brought my first doodle on one week ago. She was only 8 weeks and has runny poo but I figured it was the baby food the breeder gave her for the long car ride. Well the runny poo just got worse and by Monday night I felt like all I was doing was sitting out in the cold or cleaning the carpet every 20-30 minutes. Tuesday morning in the day light I saw her poo was now pretty much liquid and now has blood in it. GREAT just my luck I get a sick dog. So I called the vet and they had a parvovirus freak out... Turns out not parvovirus and they did labs on her stool. All they could tell me was it must just be stress from a new home. So they send me home with canned prescription food and a medicine to give her. It seemed to be working the first day and a half and her poo went from water to soft serve ice cream looking. Last night I noticed it going back to watery this morning and blood returned.
So off to the vet we went this morning they gave me more food and changed her meds and added a powered for her food. Vet said if not improvement by morning to call back in...and if her poo is not at the consistancy to be able to pick it up by Monday then they will do more invasive testing.
So here I am $150.00 in vet bills already wight this puppy I have only hadw for a week this afternoon.


So the nights have been horrible because all the poor thing has done was pooped every 45-60 minutes at night and I'm about to loss it with the no sleep.
I made the mistake of letting her in bed with us but after changing the bed two times last night I'm done with that and going to be putting her in the cage and pray my daughter can sleep through it. My husband is out of town this weekend and he is the one who can't handle the dog crying. I. Told him this morning to get ear plugs! I have been putting her in her cage here and there during the day and she is doing really good and settles down fast so I hope it's an easier night. My only question is How do you know if they are just crying to get out or have to potty? I am also having to do all this with no treats because the vet said none for about a week after week get her stool under control. It's making this puppy thing so much harder than it has to be because she can't hold her poop and right now its not her fault and my poor carpet :(
I hope this new med works because I'm at my wits end. Having a puppy is a ton of work but when they are sick its just pure he'll.

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

Sorry for all the typos my I pad was not wanting to let me see half of what I was typing.

[Amy, Kokomo & Killian]

Hi Lindsey,

I just wanted to let you know you are not alone. Killian came to us Dec 23 and also had diarrhea... We crated him at night and everytime we went to get him in the morning (despite going out 2-3 times at night), he was covered in poop. He didn't really bark or cry to tell us, but he couldn't hold it either. His testing all came back negative, too. So, the vet had us boil chicken breast and give him that over white rice for a week to see if it would help. It did. And, then a few days later, the diarrhea was back. He was going pure water and we had to wipe him everytime we took him out because it would get all over his fur. We confined him to areas where it is easy to clean the floor because he wouldn't be able to tell us when it would happen. We felt so bad for him. After our 3rd visit to the vet (and $$$ for meds) he is better. They gave him an antibiotic and 3 different de-wormers. We changed him to kibble 2 weeks ago (Blue Buffalo chicken and brown rice) and he was finally having formed poop. But, he got his shots this past Tuesday and yesterday and today he has diarrhea again. I am now thinking it is a reaction to his shots! Maybe your puppy is going through the same thing? Last night, he was out at 11 pm. At 2:15 am he was whimpering and pacing in his crate. I took him out and he peed and pooped (diarrhea). At 5:00 he was whimpering and pacing again and he went again. So, something is bugging him again.... Going to wait and see if he is better tomorrow or we will be calling again.

It is tough to have a puppy and even tougher when they are going through all of this yucky stuff! Hang in there...and I will too!

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

Glad to hear im not alone in this.

I have heard of the Chicken and rice and my Vet even brough that up but she asked me to try this first.

 

[K and Racey]

Lindsey,

Have you contacted the breeder? Are the other pups from the litter sick?

I would switch to boiled chicken breast and white rice. It's easier on her stomach. I'm not a fan of prescription food; it seems most people in the food group aren't either.

She is probably crying so much because her stomach hurts. Poor you and poor little girl!

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

I am so upset about this breeder she seemed so great and yet she is not responding to my Emails about the dog.  I have not tried to call her because typically with in hours she had Emailed me back.... and I just dont know what to say I am not good at confertation situations.  In the heath warrenty you have 3 business days to take puppy to the vet and I have done that so if the meds dont work this weekend im having DH call her or I will just drive the 3 and a half hours to her house with the dog and sit there because I am not paying hundreds in vet bills for a dog that was given to me sick.

We tried a dog last fall from her that was fully potty trained and 5 months old but the dog had seperation problems and we could not control her she just went crazy. The breeder was here first thing in the morning to pick the dog up saying how sorry she was. So this is just strange to me.  I am hoping she is just out of town of has an emergency or something.  She is a vet tech so you would think she would have Emailed me back to give advice or something. I first Emailed her Monday and its now Friday.

 

Well im trying to stick to what the Vet is telling me to do to the T just so I dont void the heath warrenty by doing my own thing. Because if it doest get better the vets going to have to write me something for the breeder.

 

She only crys when I leave the room or lock her in the cage.

[Lisa King]

Hi Lindsey,

The same thing happened to us 10 years ago with our golden retriever, henry, he was really ill, but gradually he got better but always had a weakness in his stomach, so we got him tested once he was adult and he has colitis. It's all good though, we learn to manage it with his diet. I hope you get your puppy sorted soon I know how hard it can be.

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

Happy to report we hit a turning point last night.

Yesterday with all the new meds the poo was much less frequent and started to get more solid.

I noticed a her engery doubled yesterday as well. So the poor girl must have been feeling pretty crappy but since she started out like that I had no clue.  This morning I let her out and she had a really good almost solid poo!!! YAY

So 10:00pm rolls around and I had been playing with her for hours took her water away at 8:00pm & last feeding was 6:00pm. I did lots of potty breaks to try to empty her out.

So we come in and right to her cage we went. She fussed for about 8 minutes.  Midnight she let out a yip and it woke me ad i wondered if i was dreaming because she did not bark or yip again.  So down stairs I went and let her out to potty. Then right back into her cage. She fussed again but by the time I myself went potty and got into bedshe quit.

3:00am I woke up and had to use the bathroom. So I figured its been 3 hours I better go let her out. Down I went let her out she went potty right away and back in the cage she went.  She fussed again for about 8 minutes.

Next thing I know its 7:30 and my daughter woke me up talking in her room.

I went down to let her out and she was still sleeping and there was no mess in the cage.

 

I am SOOO beyond happy. I just hope the wonderful night in the cage was not just a fluke.

[Nina, Phil, Harlow & Lacey]

Hi Lindsey, Gald to hear puppy is starting to firm up. Did you do the chicken and rice? You should try a bit of pumpkin too as it will help firm up the stools.

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

Im giving the vets food a try first. Nex time I go to the store I will grab some canned pumpkin to have on hand just in case in the future she has a bad poo day.

Her poo is not 100% what I was call normal but far from what it was. The vet said it might take a couple days. My worry now after being on this canned yummy food she will refuse to eat once we go back to her dry kibble.  I have been mixing a little bit in each feeding hoping that might help.

But they have her on a pill 2xs a day for 5 days and Proboitic powder in her food for 2 weeks.

[Pattty Oehrlein]

So glad to hear your pup is doing better. We brought our Quincy home a week ago today, she was sick the first night but it was puke all over and continual. Our breeder was so supportive and worried and the vet came next day. We did the chicken and rice thing plus the vet prescribed antibiotics and a half a Pepcid in her morning food. She had her stool tested and it was neg the vomitting stopped and now we have the post shots diarrea - again advised to add some rice to diet. I wish you luck and hope tht you get more fun time with your new baby than clean up time, that puppy is lucky to have such a great mom.

[Mimi Linna, Lilly and Lolly]

hows the puppy doing??? so sorry that both of you are having to go through this. did the breeder ever get back to you> just being nosy.

[Lindsey & Cocoa]

We found out she has Giardia so 5 days of Panacur and 10 days of metrodozonale and we are praying it clears it up. I have heard his can be a hard thing to get rid of.

I ended up calling the breeder and that is how I found out about the Giardia, I guess litter mates also had it..... Thanks for calling me UGH.

The breeder offrered to mail meds to me but I did not think the dog could wait 3 days since she was back to the bloody stool and pooping 10xs a day again.

So far things are getting better, potty training is going so-so  she has about one pee accident a day and has no pooped since the weekend in the house and before that no poop in the house the whole week before.  So I think once we get this problem cleared up its going to make things really easy.

She has started liking her cage. She wont go in on her own and lay down but she does not bark or whine when I put her in there for the night or just so I can get some house work done.

 

Thanks for checking up on us... this site as been wonderful.