When you have two dogs that live for 17 and 18 years with no major
health issues it kinda makes a believer out of you. Neither had great
breeding either.
Chris
--- In Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com, "nicksbedwarmer"
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>
> I said I was switching from Maxximum Nutrition to Bil Jac which seems
> awful high quality to me at $25 a bag and vaccuum packed, fresh meat
> and all that.
> I find it humorous that people go so overboard on the "good food-bad
> food" thing when long ago I had a Great Dane that was just
> GORGEOUS...no fat, great muscle tone, shiny coat. A vet I was just
> using to get rabies shots from as I gave him his other shots myself
> commented on how beautiful he was and not overweight like so many she
> saw and asked what food he was on. At the time, my now ex husband
> would have never ever spent a ton of money on food so we either
> bought a big bag of high protein food from the feed supply store for
> $7 or we bought Petsmart's brand. Makes me wonder about all this so
> called "high quality" food.
>
> --- In Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com, Jen-CA <wartenaschihuahuas@>
> wrote:
> >
> > You can also keep Karo syrup in their water at all times. I would
> suggest a high quality food and Wal-Mart is not the place for that.
> I would also suggest a high quality can food and a tablespoon morning
> and night. It sounds like he has Coccidia and a severe case at
> that. Honey is good, Nutrical is better. Always make sure they are
> eating, if they do not like the food you offer, mix it with boiled
> chicken then slowly remove the boiled chicken until all they are
> eating is the kibble. These little ones CANNOT go without food. If
> they are not eating, find something they will eat. Nutrical also
> stimulates them to want to eat but do not give to much of it you can
> end up with the runs with will dehydrate your pup.
> >
> > Good luck, let us know how it goes.
> >
> > Jen-CA
> >
> > KAT <sinsation@> wrote:
> > I'm so sorry to hear about Sparky. It sounds like he may have
> hypoglycimea, hopfully he wont have to have surgery. We're having
> problems with our little girl "Tia" not eating enough and I
> constantly worry about her going in to hypoglycimea. I give her a
> little NutraCal once a day. If you don't have NutraCal on hand I've
> been told that you can give them a dab of honey everyday. Please
> keep us posted on Sparky's progress. Kat nicksbedwarmer wrote:
> My 12-week-old Chihuahua, Sparky, is at the emergency vet clinic
> > tonight. We just got him Tuesday night, late, and he threw up in
> the
> > car going home. Then, he threw up the next morning before going to
> > my vet for a checkup and a booster, since he was due. The vet said
> > it was probably just nerves and getting adjusted to a new home.
> > Fine. Yesterday, Friday, he ate nothing at all and only drank a
> > small bit a couple of times. Today, Saturday (just to clariy as
> it's
> > 1:10 a.m. as I type this so technically Sunday) he ate a teeny tiny
> > amount and drank some but then, about 10:45 p.m., he was sleeping
> > peacefully on my chest while I read a Chihuahua book I got at the
> > library and then woke up making a lovely hurling noise and I ran to
> > the pee pads to let him throw up there. He threw up brown stuff
> that
> > had a slight odor around his mouth after. He collapsed after that
> > and wouldn't move from the spot, was even stepping in his vomit. I
> > picked him up and tried to get him to drink something. He wouldn't
> > have it. He just looked at me so pathetically and I picked his
> limp
> > little body up and put him back on my chest where he promptly went
> > back to sleep. I made a mental note to call the vet's office
> > Monday. Well, no sooner had I thought that, he started in again
> > about 20 minutes later and same thing but this time he was a LOT
> > limper and just wasn't at all the way I think a puppy, even a teeny
> > tiny one, should be. I called the emergency clinic and they said
> to
> > bring him in so we did. They did a test for Parvo as they said
> even
> > though he had had parvo vaccine from the breeder that it could have
> > been ineffective as some people let them get warm and it's not
> > effective or something like that. Anyway, fine. That was
> negative.
> > They took some blood and popped an IV in him and gave him some
> > dextrose. He pepped up with that and they are keeping him until
> > tomorrow evening, she said, so they can see if they can get him to
> > eat and what he'll eat and run some more tests. She said he may
> have
> > to be on a different diet than my two Shih Tzus. I have them
> > switching right now from the Maxximum Choice stuff they sell at Wal-
>
> > Mart to Bil Jac puppy food but he really doesn't seem to want
> > anything to do with it much though he wolfed down a bowl of it the
> > first day he was here. I'm just worried about him and hope he's
> okay
> > and it is just a matter of finding a diet he will eat. She said
> his
> > blood sugar was so low it didn't register so it was good I brought
> > him in. Pray for my tiny baby everyone!! P.s. The vet assistant
> asked if the other puppies acted okay and I
> > had to admit that I only saw him and one other that was younger
> than
> > him as we met the lady at a McDonald's. She lives on an army base
> > and said that she "would hate for us to have to try to get on
> base."
> > The vet assistant said that, in the future, that should serve as a
> > big red flag if they won't let you come to their house as something
> > is usually amiss..dirty conditions..all the pups are
> sick..whatever.
> > I'm attached to this little guy though and I told them to do
> > whatever. Guesstimate was about $365 and I'm hoping it stays
> around
> > that and he doesn't have a blockage. He's so tiny I don't know if
> he
> > could stand surgery.
> >
> >
> >
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