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I rescued an abandoned 10 day old kitten. Now 16 days old. just starting have diarrhea and now sore red bottom. Appetite is waning. Also meows constantly as if in pain. Please help!
Just looking for advice before I contact the vet.
I would say the vet is a very good idea the sooner the better. Every litter I’ve every had from cats to rats to dogs and pigs. The runt rarely survived. But they usually were very sickly from day one. It is possible this little pup is off to a slow start but with a vets help it can be a survivor. Keep it warm and dont let it get picked on by the others. Good luck.
Thanks I appreciate it she is urinating and deficiating she is also eating as I feed her every 2 hours I then put her back with the rest if the litter and this is when she starts to cry she also is very fidgetated can never stay still
Thanks I appreciate it she is urinating and deficiating she is also eating as I feed her every 2 hours I then put her back with the rest if the litter and this is when she starts to cry she also is very fidgetated can never stay still
Thankyou I will be contacting the vet in the morning
My dog has been having diarrhea for about 4 days now, and is only eating at night. He will happily eat two meals worth at night. He has been having super smelly farts. I noticed that the farts seem to come mostly after he eats (several an hour for a couple hours), but through the rest of the day, its about once every few hours. His diet doesn’t really change, but he does love spending a lot of time in the back yard.
I recommend having a vet do an exam, fecal float (to look for parasites) and possibly x-rays. Diarrhea for 4 days in a dog this large is not an emergency but he should be seen by a vet soon.
We moved into this apartment in February of this year, beautiful home out the country across from a farm. Anyway, the previous people had outside animals including dogs and cats. My boyfriend are thinking that they never did anything for the flea issue and we are taking on their issue. We have done at home remedies and chemicals, nothing is working! Our upstairs where the cats litter box was, is infested with these parasites. Can somebody give us some feedback?
OK this is is what I have done many many times over the years helping friends and family and it works 100% of the time. It takes some time, effort, a little money, and mostly, elbow grease. First thing you need is to purchase some flea killing pills called Capstar. Ebay, or a vets office or online, the animal swallows the pill and 30 min later all fleas are on the ground dead. Order them today. Then go out and get a good flea med. Some vets won’t give you any if you haven’t been seen by them, so I suggest Frontline from the pet store, use by body weight. Don’t apply it just yet. Purchase at least 3 new vaccum filters as the vacuum is your best friend in this scenario. This requires at minimum a weekend for the initial treatment and then continuing to vacuum daily so suck up any new eggs that hatch. Repeatedly.
Capstar pills, flea meds for each pet, flea bombs for each room of the house except kitchen, vacuum filters, and most importantly cat carriers or cages or somewhere to place them while this is happening besides the house.
Now sat morning wake up and get animals out. While they are out give each one a dose of the Capstar pills, a bath, and then apply the flea med. Next move all furniture and anything a flea can be under to one side of the rooms and cover with bed sheets. Next. Vacuum like a crazy person. Twice! Change the filter and take trash bag with old filter immediately to the outside dump. Vacuum again. Under beds. Under under under.. under couch cushions and anywhere a flea will hide. Closets, etc . Take litter boxes to bathroom and bleach clean. Pick everything up off floors. Next let the bombs off in center of each room with doors closed and leave the house for alloted time frame. After that come inside and vacuum good again to suck up all dead fleas. Now clean off bomb residue off cabinets and stuff and anywhere like tile floors and wipe it all up. Open windows air out a while. Let’s pets back in. Wash sheets covering the furniture.. And put things back. Beside off of floors because you need to vacuum daily for the next 2 weeks. This will work. It takes effort but will work. At the 3-4 week mark. I would repeat and bomb again. At the 4 week mark apply more flea med to animals.
At some point try to get a better flea med from a vet but for now the frontline will work. Good luck!
Thank you for your advice! We are getting flea collars for our cats to see if that works. Unfortunately, the landlords will not do anything about it, sadly. We also do not have the money to get a professional out here to take care of these parasites, so we are working with what we got. We have used raid spray for bed bugs/flea/dust mites that has worked a bit, but we need to spray again. These fleas are never ending…
Thank you for your advice, much appreciated! Capstar may work great but, I am not sure how I feel about giving my animals something that they ingest, just seems off putting to me! We vacuum every other day, we have a bagless and wet vac that we use to vacuum our home with. We have no carpet in our home, just hardwood floors so it is a little easier to keep up with. We have tried raid flea spray that you spray around your home, we think it worked a little bit, but where their cat box used to be — we are having no luck there is still load of fleas there. This weekend we are getting the cats flea collars, as much as I don’t want too I think it will work.
Thank you again for your advice!
Flea collars won’t do anything and just annoy the animal that isn’t used to them. If you have hard wood floors getting rid of the fleas should be easier. You haven’t tried to bug bomb the room with the litter boxes yet so that is the best bet. That room needs to be bombed and vacuumed over and over again. Not a spray but an actual bug bomb that you leave in the room for a day. Make sure to clean up after using raid and bug bombs.
Ohhh damn, maybe I wont get the collars then. I have tried frontline, it was a waste of money and did not work for us. We vacuum every other day, I will have to try the moth ball thing!
Dang, you are the second person to say that the collars do not work… so I will not be trying them. We have sprayed and we always vacuum and mop the floors after I do not want my fur babies tracking through poison. The fleas are not terrible in our living room, kitchen, and bathroom. However, once you step foot into the upstairs where their box used to be, it’s loaded with fleas. We live in an old farm-house so there is cracks in the floor, and I am 99.9% sure they have been laying eggs in the cracks and reproducing. Such a pain… I’d rather deal with house flies than fleas!
It’s under the skin about the size of a dime it’s squishy not hard, he also doesn’t seem to mind when we touch it or push it. What should I do? It has only been 2 days since I noticed it. I want to take him to the vet but I think theyll just say keep an eye on it. It’s not red or anything you cannot see it.
I would keep an eye on it to see if it changes in a few days. Then I would take him to the vet to get the lump biopsied.
Before I provide details, I plan on taking her in to the vet tomorrow as her regular vet is closed to. I’m hoping someone will be able to provide me with what I can do in the meantime. My three year old dog is in alot of pain in her hind legs and when I lightly touch her left hip down to her leg she yelps. She cant walk but still has a little feeling in both legs. I have tried almost everything to help relieve some pain but it doesn’t seem to be working.
Probably the best thing right now is to make her comfortable until tomorrow. Try to keep her from moving around too much. A crate or dog travel pen is commonly used to avoid moving around. I would place her inside.. right after she uses the bathroom one last time and given some food or water. Don’t keep touching her where it hurts and don’t fuss over her just keep calm and relaxed. Good luck.
Unfortunately there is no pain medication you can give her. Keep her calm and laying down. You can also try ice or heat to her painful area.
dachshund frequent urination, lack of appetite, tired and weak. No fever, he’s dehydrated and currently getting fluid at the vet along with antibiotics. What could be making him sick? he started getting like this earlier this week
With out additional info the problem list is long even if you have ruled out infection. Let your vet perform some blood work and other test to reach a diagnosis
Hi David. Blood work has been done and they only said his while blood count was low. Also checked his urine and it came back ok. Haven’t really gave any information as to why he is sick
Vomiting can be for many reasons.
Upset stomach? Could he/she have gotten into anything? Ate something they weren’t suppose to?
We recommending withholding for for the day and starting to then feed small amount if they seem to be improving.
Next steps would be radiographs to confirm whether anything seems odd, and sometimes sending out a blood panel to check levels.
Let us know if you have any questions!
I have two cats both around the same age Sushi and Loki. I got Sushi at 8weeks and Loki a week later at 10 weeks old. Sushi was playful and full of wonder. Loki was loveable and cuddly. After getting them both fixed, Loki started to pull away a little at a time. It’s been a year now and he don’t like to be touched,pet on,won’t cuddle. I don’t know what to do..help!
They get along well they play and they groom each other. It’s Sushi will be cuddly and lovable but Loki nothing.
Working with a holistic veterinarian or trying some holistic approaches at home can reverse the behavioral change that I feel was caused by the surgery or the anesthesia. Some animals are sensitive and do have serious reactions that I could not treat when I merely had my conventional treatment.
I strongly recommend finding an integrative
veterinarian with whom to work. This is a person trained in many different
approaches, including using conventional drugs only when absolutely needed.
Working with one can increase the chance that your cherished companion can live
a long and healthy life after recovering from this current problem. There are
good ones and great ones, and a few homeopathic veterinarians will consult by
phone or email. You can go to the web sites for each type of holistic practice
and use their referral list to find one near to you. Many practitioners are
members of only one or two of the organizations, so you do need to go to every
site to find who is near you:
1. Wide range of treatments: http://www.AHVMA.org, American Holistic Veterinary
Medical Association and http://www.civtedu.org.
2. Homeopathic veterinarians (these can often help you by phone if no other
holistic practitioners are nearby that you like): http://www.theAVH.org and
http://www.DrPitcairn.com;
3. Chiropractic and Osteopathic – http://www.animalchiropractic.org; http://equineosteopathy.org/ (they treat
dogs, too)
4. TCVM (Acupuncture and Chinese medicine): http://www.IVAS.org, http://www.aava.org &
http://www.TCVM.com
5. Herbal – http://www.VBMA.org
At home you could take a class to be attuned in Reiki and offer it to everyone in the house on a daily basis. This may reverse the problem (see below). flower essences are totally safe and could help him become normal again. Maybe try a session with Sharon who makes the Anaflora line and is also an animal intuitive.
Personally, I think every person who lives with or works
with animals must know at least Level I Reiki. The practitioner offers this
energy and the animal comes over to get it (or places her hands upon the
animal), or it can be done from a distance, even around the world with the
intent for healing to occur. The energy flows through the healer into the
animal. This is based on directly applying Chi (energy) to rebalance the energy
field so it no longer needs to produce the physical symptoms. It is a very good
adjunct to any healing modality, especially to relieve pain and inflammation. I
have seen cats who began to eat again when their food was treated with Reiki.
It also “takes the bad out of” things. By doing Reiki on smelly water
in restaurants I have been able to drink sweet tasting and smelling water. Use
Reiki anytime that you must give injections, vaccines, drugs, flea or heartworm
drugs, or other substances with potential toxicity. Reiki is great to calm
animals, relieve discomfort, and can deeply heal some problems in some animals.
1. Great information on Reiki – http://www.reikicourse.org.
2. Kathleen Prasad is a wonderful teacher and works with my favorite sanctuary
and holistic education center, BrightHaven http://www.brighthaven.org. Kathleen leads
a free monthly telechat for anyone trained in Reiki and using it with animals.http://www.animalreikisource.com/.
3. If you cannot find a Reiki Class near you (same class for people and animals
as it connects you through an “attunement” to the healing energy of
the universe, making you a channel of healing), the following groups offer long
distance, free, attunements.
a. http://theholisticcare.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=13,
b. http://freereikiattunement.com/
c. Christine at cbearse@earthlink.net, http://www.awakeningrainbows.com. To receive
free distance Reiki send her your first name only, city and state, and whether
or not you have had any Reiki training. She invites you to include your
pets as well. She uses a teddy bear and does a full body Reiki distance
treatment for one hour each Sunday evening from 9 p.m. until 10 p.m. EST.
d. And a team of over 100 healers will send free healing energy until you say
not to. Email Barbara at nancelot01@aol.com with your healing request, name of
animal, species, color & age. In the subject say request through Dr.
Chambreau
4. for a fee:
Excellent recommendation in 2015 – http://reikishamanic.com/
http://www.ReikiBlessings.com offers many types of
energy healing classes- search a bit to find the reiki ones or email them. Long
distance healing and training is at http://www.animalhealers.homestead.com.
5. Get a free treatment for yourself at http://www.interdimensionalhealing.com.
Thank you Christina I have a cousin who works in that field. I’m going to make a Call to her for Loki. Thank you I wouldn’t have thought about it.
I am so glad, Crystal.
If you want to learn more yourself, join our Thur 1-2 eastern Blabs run by Jeff Feinman (free) and then look at taking his on line course coming up or one of my two in Maine and Maryland in Sept/Oct. Sign up for my RSS feed on my site to learn more.
My name is Ankush Singla from India. I have my friend from turkey. She has a dog of breed mixture of wolf and Burmese …so we can say he is Burmese wolf . From last 7 days he is not eating. He is around 11 years old. She took him to doctor, he prescribed some medicines and giving some liquids to him through glucose bottles. But after three days of treatment, still hr is not eating…lay whole day and sad too. Before that he was never like that. What should she do ?,please help us because we can not see him in pain.
Often when a dog decides to stop eating it means that they are going to die. Eleven is an old dog when it is mixed with wolf. Since the dog has been seen by a doctor I would suspect there is not much to be done for this dog save to make him comfortable (manage his pain).
So sorry to hear of his troubles.
Of note, I took the kitten to the vet at 11 days, and she tested negative for parasites in stool. I am using the correct formula.