Re: Fragile Doggie and Mommy Need Help!
Not back to normal yet, but we have achieved something other than the pudding-ey or liquid-ey diarrhea! We'll have to see how it all plays out after we resume our normal diet in a day or two, but last night Snowball was really beside himself. . .with excitement! because he manipulated me into a bedtime snack (aka BG was a bit low and he insisted it would go lower without sustenance. . . ) So at 84 I went ahead and caved in and gave him an ounce and a half of plain fat free yogurt. Sprinkled additional probiotics, and voila!, snacky time for the sad little starving Min Pin.
I expected some higher numbers with that, but they weren't horrible, and I told myself he really could use that yogurt for some good buggies in his belly and for the added calories.
He still had diarrhea at morning pre-breakfast poos. When he first got up he pee peed and then had a little diarrhea followed by some poo that looked as though it was trying to form. The best description I had for my mom was it was like those 4th of July snakes the babies and I did on the driveway this year. Skinnier, more like a pencil, and definitely soft, but not just applesauce-ey or runny. I had to haul him to Sunday School again because my husband disappeared this morning, but we have a tiny church, and our Pastor told me last week that Snowball is "family". So he had his breakfast and AM shot there. When he pottied after eating he had some diarrhea liquid, and I was hoping (but still a bit worried) that we might be coming to the end of getting out all the ickiness. He also had a little accident in his pet taxi while he was waiting for Sunday School to end so he could get his breakfast on.
When we got home this afternoon I decided to give just a little Pepto Bismol to try to reinforce the pumpkin (I increased his breakfast and supper amounts today). I figured I would try a day or so of that before loading up for the vet. So we had supper tonight, and after supper he pottied, and we had more of the formed soft stuff. Most certainly not back to normal yet, but I am happy it is not a pile of mooshy diarrhea. Also glad I didn't constipate the ol' boy. I will add the pumpkin for another day or two and just deal with the slightly elevated numbers. Really not too much of a big deal. The yogurt gave him a little kick in the BG pants, but the pumpkin is not horrid. Then hopefully when I get back to things as usual the poop will be okay and revert back to diarrhea. I have a sense that even with intervention, if he had some significant issue causing the diarrhea it would not resolve so I am feeling better. Of course he looks the same as always. Hungry and perturbed at the lip-jabbing and lack of tasty morsels.
And I was noticing tonight that when he pees his pee pee stream is nice and strong and aimed somewhere besides down his front or back leg. And he can get into position and hold himself up to poo with no problem. Last night I skimmed back over some of what I posted when I first arrived here, and it really drove home how significantly he has improved over the last couple of weeks. Sure makes me feel better. Now to master that poo!
Not back to normal yet, but we have achieved something other than the pudding-ey or liquid-ey diarrhea! We'll have to see how it all plays out after we resume our normal diet in a day or two, but last night Snowball was really beside himself. . .with excitement! because he manipulated me into a bedtime snack (aka BG was a bit low and he insisted it would go lower without sustenance. . . ) So at 84 I went ahead and caved in and gave him an ounce and a half of plain fat free yogurt. Sprinkled additional probiotics, and voila!, snacky time for the sad little starving Min Pin.
I expected some higher numbers with that, but they weren't horrible, and I told myself he really could use that yogurt for some good buggies in his belly and for the added calories.
He still had diarrhea at morning pre-breakfast poos. When he first got up he pee peed and then had a little diarrhea followed by some poo that looked as though it was trying to form. The best description I had for my mom was it was like those 4th of July snakes the babies and I did on the driveway this year. Skinnier, more like a pencil, and definitely soft, but not just applesauce-ey or runny. I had to haul him to Sunday School again because my husband disappeared this morning, but we have a tiny church, and our Pastor told me last week that Snowball is "family". So he had his breakfast and AM shot there. When he pottied after eating he had some diarrhea liquid, and I was hoping (but still a bit worried) that we might be coming to the end of getting out all the ickiness. He also had a little accident in his pet taxi while he was waiting for Sunday School to end so he could get his breakfast on.
When we got home this afternoon I decided to give just a little Pepto Bismol to try to reinforce the pumpkin (I increased his breakfast and supper amounts today). I figured I would try a day or so of that before loading up for the vet. So we had supper tonight, and after supper he pottied, and we had more of the formed soft stuff. Most certainly not back to normal yet, but I am happy it is not a pile of mooshy diarrhea. Also glad I didn't constipate the ol' boy. I will add the pumpkin for another day or two and just deal with the slightly elevated numbers. Really not too much of a big deal. The yogurt gave him a little kick in the BG pants, but the pumpkin is not horrid. Then hopefully when I get back to things as usual the poop will be okay and revert back to diarrhea. I have a sense that even with intervention, if he had some significant issue causing the diarrhea it would not resolve so I am feeling better. Of course he looks the same as always. Hungry and perturbed at the lip-jabbing and lack of tasty morsels.
And I was noticing tonight that when he pees his pee pee stream is nice and strong and aimed somewhere besides down his front or back leg. And he can get into position and hold himself up to poo with no problem. Last night I skimmed back over some of what I posted when I first arrived here, and it really drove home how significantly he has improved over the last couple of weeks. Sure makes me feel better. Now to master that poo!
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