Wednesday, October 10, 2007

It doesn't look good


This is Roo. Up until last Thursday she was pretty darn healthy for a senior puppy. Sadly, although the head tilt is going away, she's still vomiting. On the vet's advice we've tried switching her hard food for soft, tried not giving her the anti-biotics, tried giving her Gatorade. She'll eat or drink a little and then at some point later on it all comes back up again. We were hopeful yesterday - she went for almost 24 hours without bringing anything back up again, but today... let's just say we're going through paper towels at an accelerated rate. The vet says that if the vestibular disorder diagnosis was the correct one, we would have seen a marked improvement within 3 days so it is likely something else. We'll wait to see how she is on Friday, but if there is no improvement, we will probably have to say good bye to Roo this Saturday.

6 comments:

Lesley said...

Hugs to you and Fred. I'll be thinking of you and hoping that everything turns out all right.

Laurie said...

Oh, poor little Roo. I hope he gets better real soon.

*hugs*

allison said...

Oh sweetie, I am so sorry for you, Fred and pretty Roo. I hope she gets better. And if she does not, I know that you will take the best care of her that you can. [hugs]

-- jlb said...

ooh, no - sorry sorry to hear this. yarney hugs from me & my furries. She's a very pretty dog. We'll hope for the best.

Amanda said...

I hope there was good news today. [hug]

Simon said...

Aww man, I'm really sorry.