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Pawbly | 9 years ago
Hello! I Have A One Year Old Yorkie. He Has Been Having Some Problems Recently…

Hello! I have a one year old Yorkie. He has been having some problems recently – he started coughing and it sounds like he has something stuck in his throat. This gets worse when he is excited about something or when he is about to be taken for a walk. He vomitted only once and after that the coughing got more severe. I took him to two vets – one told me that he has tonsilitis and prescribed some antibiotics. The situation got better for several days but now he is coughing again. When we visited him for the second time, he recommended having my dog’s tonsils removed. The other one told me that my dog had a problem with an elongated soft palate which I found very strange for I didn’t know that Yorkies can have such problems. Also, he made this diagnosis just by listening to him coughing, without any kind of examination. Other than coughing, my dog is active and hasn’t lost his appetite. Can you please help us?

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tracy | 9 years ago
My Dog Is Vomiting A Liquid, Yellow, Flemmy Substance. He Still Wants To Eat And…

my dog is vomiting a liquid, yellow, flemmy substance.
he still wants to eat and drink. no fever or different behavior.

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  1. Kelly Furgason

    Hello,
    It sounds like your dog is vomiting bile. Sometimes if a dog hasn’t eaten in awhile the bile can irritate the stomach and then they vomit. How long does your dog go between meals? If your dog only eats once a day, try doing twice per day…or even three times per day if possible. Use the same daily amount of food, just divide it up into more than one feeding.

     Of course, it could be other things that can cause this, but this would be my first thought.
    ~kelly

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Pawbly | 10 years ago
Our8week Lab Developed Parvo. Still, Our5week Golden Had The Same Symptoms(vomitting,bloody Dihharea,lethargy), But His Parvo…

Our8week lab developed parvo. Still, our5week golden had the same symptoms(vomitting,bloody dihharea,lethargy), but his parvo test was negative (4 day), while our labs (2day)was positive. Is there a possibility it was a false negative test?

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  1. Anna K

    Thanks Krista,
    Our Golden seems just fine right now. It’s his 10th day of parvo, but he’s eating like a crazy, plays, walks around. Our lab feels horrible despite hospitalization. It’s his 5 / 6th day of parvo, but she began to vomit again after meals. He was in hospital from Monday to Friday. Now she’s at home, but they’re separated.
    Our lab takes oral fluids right now and is on amoxy, curcumine and metronidazole.

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Pawbly | 10 years ago
She Has Now Been Vomiting For 2 Wks And Vet Doesnt Know What It Is…

She has now been vomiting for 2 wks and vet doesnt know what it is. 2 days ago she begun to lose mobility in her hind legs again and now can hardly walk, she is still vomiting and today poo just seems to be falling out of her butt and the outside of her bum looks quite red and swollen. She continues to have an appetite but is understably down in the dumps, as are we!

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Pawbly | 10 years ago
10 Years Old Cat Was In Heat Then Suddenly The Next Day She Acts…

10 years old cat was in heat then suddenly the next day she acts like she wants to vomit but cant and around her vaginia dark mucus.
If touch her above her tail she acts like she wants to vomit.

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Pawbly | 10 years ago
3 Week Old German Shepherd Suddenly Starts Wobbling And Acting Dizzy. He Stares Off Vacantly…

3 week old german shepherd suddenly starts wobbling and acting dizzy. He stares off vacantly. Started all of a sudden last night. No vomiting, but no eating either. Took it to vet. They saw no problem in the test. What could it be?

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  1. Raymond Clark

    Has your dog recently received Ivermectin or Trifexis?  Both can lead to permanent neurological damage I’m told.  Also some dry dogfood and dog treats are being recalled for fungus contamination.  One dog treat I gave my 3 dogs caused them to have the same symptoms and then they had seizures.  Luckily I figured out what it was and they all recovered.

  2. La-Tonia TD

    Maybe it has water in the ears, which can cause the equilibrium to be off.

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Pawbly | 10 years ago
My Dog Is Vomiting And Pooping Blood And Not Eating Her Breakfast (just Breakfast…

My dog is vomiting and pooping blood and not eating her breakfast (just breakfast) and we have already taken her to the vet and she couldn’t find anything and gave us special food but it doesn’t seem to work. What could possibly be wrong?

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  1. Christina Chambreau

    One of the challenges of conventional medicine is a limited number of both diagnostic and treatment options. Depending on what your vet said yesterday (I assume after Dr. Krista’s comment you did call the vet back) this may be a time to seek integrative care. 

    I
    strongly recommend finding an integrative veterinarian with whom to work because they are 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. If this interests you, please read my article on selecting a holistic vet at my site. 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 other 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

  2. caroline challita

    Hi Amy,

    Im not an expert but i don’t think its normal that they haven’t found what’s wrong. Maybe if she needed more time for test results or more info from your end like if your dog ate something spoiled or if he has diarrhea or something… Contact your vet again and tell her the special dog food isn’t working. If the vet keeps saying “i dont know” I’d always go for a second opinion just as you would with a child. Vomiting and pooping blood are signs that the dog needs medical attention.

    Hope she feels better soon,

    Caroline.

  3. Sharon Martinez

    Laboratory studies need to be done on her if they have not been already. Specifically, a blood panel. One concern that comes to mind is immune-mediated thrombocytopenia which is what my girl, Hannah, died of. You did not mention her age? Hannah was 5-weeks short of 8 years old. Older dogs are more susceptible to immune-mediated diseases – just like humans. However, immune-mediated diseases can affect younger dogs, too. Just like humans. 

    The key signs for immune-mediated thrombocytopenia would be a blood panel that showed low platelet counts because they are being consumed through an immune-mediated process. Low platelets when the count reaches to a certain level – about 50,000 – can lead to spontaneous bleeding in both the dog and the human. Platelets are responsible for our clotting mechanism. i.e., without them, we will freely bleed and bruise (both, internally or externally) without a means of quelling the loss. 

    This will, then, lead to low red blood cell count as the dog or person will not be able to manufacture replacement cells to make up for the loss. The dog will be anemic. Dogs are stoic creatures and they can become pretty darn anemic before they will show us physical signs of their anemic state. They are people-pleasers and will compensate for their anemia. 

    With spontaneous bleeding, a dog can have gastrointestinal bleeding which would lead to bloody  stools. The colon could be bleeding which would produce bright red blood per rectum or the bleeding could be higher up in the stomach or small intestines which would produce black and tarry stools. 

    Bleeding in the stomach can cause nausea and vomiting in the dog and person because blood is a somewhat caustic product. My Hannah was not vomiting but she had no appetite when the illness was clinically apparent. Unfortunately, I lost her because the veterinarian did not bother to carefully look at her laboratory studies that I had ordered. 

  4. amy lucas

    In 5 days she will be 3 years old. And she is a beagle. I think I’ll go back to vet

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Jana | 10 years ago
How Long For Drontal Plus To Kill Tapeworm And Could The Death Of The Worm…

How long for Drontal Plus to kill tapeworm and could the death of the worm cause stomach upset? (no vomiting, just upset)

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Dawn Gillispie | 10 years ago
I Am At Work But, My Husband Is At Home And Just Called Saying He…

I am at work but, my husband is at home and just called saying he gave Paige, our Boxer her Heartgard and she vomited about 30 minutes later. He cannot tell if the Heartgard was in the vomit or not. Is it safe to give her another one later or tomorrow?

Thank you,
Dawn Gillispie

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Pawbly | 10 years ago
My 8 Month Old Old English Sheepdog Shirley Gets Extremely Car Sick Every Time She…

My 8 month old Old English Sheepdog Shirley gets extremely car sick every time she goes for a ride. FYI at most the ride is 15 minutes. Excessive niagra falls drooling and vomiting. HELP. Otherwise she is perfection ❤️

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  1. Kelly Furgason

    Also try no driving trips where you just have her get in and out of the car without it running,and give lots of praise. Such a cute photo!!