You know how Cody came to live with us and I was all, “Damn! This dog is mel-low!” Well, guess what? He’s not always mellow. Just, some of the time. Like when he’s sleeping. And that’s only after he and Charlie have wrassled (that’s right, not wrestled, wrassled) all over the house for a good 20 hours. He was mellow because he was 1.) stressed out from so much change in a short period of time and 2.) he didn’t feel good.
I should have known better. But wishful thinking, well, it is wishful. Anyway, for the last two weeks Cody has had a very delicate stomach. Things haven’t been right out of both ends. The things I have seen…and cleaned… it cannot be unseen. But, our decisions several years ago to buy a steam cleaner has once again more than paid for itself. And I will say that pet stain removers have come a VERY long way.
When Cody first came to us, he was passing, well, what looked an awful lot like brown loogies so we went to the vet for our welcome home visit as well as his delicate stomach symptoms. He got put on a bland food diet for a few days as well as some medicine to settle his stomach. Fast forward to week 2 of Cody coming to live with us. He started pooping out what looked like (as my vet called it) strawberry jelly for lack of a better descriptor. And when he wasn’t pooping that out, he did not have…um…healthy poos. So off to the vet we went and he got put on more meds. Also, he had at least 4 fecal float tests during this whole time. All of them came up clean. No parasites of any kind. So we discontinued this medicine and went on that medicine. Then we went back on this medicine and discontinued that medicine. And then also give him this medicine.
Things started to calm down on his back only for him to start puking. Repeatedly. So we went back to the vet. Twice more. The final visit was an overnight stay that also involved a barium swallow and lots of blood work to determine that…everything is normal. That’s right. EVERYTHING. IS. NORMAL. About SIX HUNDRED BILLIONTY DOLLARS (give or take over something like 5 visits to the vet) worth of normal.
Very expensive NORMAL dog
Also? The vet put him on reglan to stop the vomiting during his overnight visit. He got 2 doses, one that night and one the next morning before we picked him up. Twenty seconds after getting into the car? He puked all over my arm. It was not awesome. That was yesterday. He puked multiple more times yesterday and then a few time this morning and now the puking has finally stopped. Thank goodness.
But the best part? Today he finally had a normal poo! That’s right, people. I am excited that my dog had a normal doggie poo.
I’ll say this for the little dog. It’s REALLY easy to give him meds. All I have to do is hide it in his food and he’ll gobble it right up. If it’s a flavored medicine, he’ll eat it like it’s a treat. I guess it’s from being a former junkyard (stray) dog. This is bad when we’re on walks and he wants to put random things in his mouth or drink from nasty puddles. We’re working on him being more selective about what goes in his mouth.
And despite all the trials and tribulations of this little dog’s GI tract, he and Charlie are getting along fabulously. They have both become my little shadows and vie to sit in my lap. And they LOVE to play with each other. And take walks. And mostly ignore their toys. They play with toys separately. They aren’t really into playing tug of war with each other, though. Just with me. Simultaneously. And when they are all worn out? They have taken to sleeping together. In the same bed. Seriously. You should be warned that this next picture? It will kill you ded from teh cute.
BFFs
Can’t comment. Ded from teh cute.
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I totally know what it means to be excited about normal dog poo. When we finally found out what was wrong w/Bouncer years ago, we were able to get him on meds to help. The first time he started layin’ little logs instead of pooping cow patties, I think we cheered out loud.
Hope he’s ok now!
Love. Teh cute, not teh poo.
Aw, Charlie has a friend! I have only ever seen my cats lay in the same bed once, and that was because Freddie sat on Charlie. They might lie near each other, but they do not seek out the same bedding unless I am there.
And been there, done that with the expensive vet bills. We called Joe the million dollar cat for a reason – vets should give t-shirts to people like us!
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