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Gosh, lets go from "My dog has the trots" to "You are now officially too poor to be allowed a dog." SHEESH. Everyone goes through times when cash is tight. EVERYONE. I have owned,worked and showed dogs, specifically pits, for 15 plus years. There have been 2 times in my life when a trip to the vet ONLY happened if it was life and death and mine have made it into their teens to eat yet more chicken poop. Diarrhea is not necessarily a vet trip. It's also not the death warrant that seems to be tolling here. Sure, it COULD BE any number of things or it could be just an upset GI tract. Heck, I could probably open my Merk vet manual and find stuff scarier than PARVO. And for the record, how does one poop at all with a blockage? You don't. You vomit, cuz if it ain't going out one way it's going out the other, so quit it with the blockage thing. Lets use some common sense here. The dog is stable: its eating, drinking and pooping all without a fever. I think that it is reasonable advice to withhold food for 24 hours. Personally, I'd give the electrolytes, but that's me. After that, use your eyes! Is the dog better, worse or same? Fever or no? Roached back, or no? Drinking and hydrated, or no? Pooping every five min and it's getting worse, or no? This dogs stools aren't bloody or slimy according to the owner and she doesn't have a fever. I don't think we need to sound 8 bells quite yet.
That was hard to read..lol! She isn't dying...dying dogs don't want to play ball. She will be fine. If all the dogs whose owners couldn't afford a vet gave their dogs up right now...I'd hate to have to do a body count.
She did eat today, but very little because I withheld it from her. Her bowels aren't AS loose as they were yesterday. I noticed when I let her out into the fenced yard this afternoon. I think it may be the dog food. Maybe it's producing too much gas? Gas is painful, and could be the pain problem. The rice seemed to make her feel better and she was wagging her tail really hard..not like yesterday when she just wagged the tip of her tail when I called her back in and petted her. She's still feeling a little sickly because she crawled her big 60 pound carcass up in my lap, but better than she was for sure. She has been more playful this afternoon.
I'm not the type of person to jump to the worst case scenario on my animals health. I DO very much appreciate all the advice and options, the caring comments, and the cautious comments as well. Jumping in and saying someone shouldn't have a dog because their opinion on how to care for them is different than what you would personally do is just overly judgemental and not a welcomed comment. I can "properly" care for my dog and myself with OR without money. Everything doesn't have a pricetag. My dog going to another home or whatever would not soothe any of her issues, but would only make them worse, because it would stress her too much. Actually, EVEN a vet trip upsets her, so she may be better off not going anyway. So I would have to get her well before rehoming her anyway.
ETA:SillyChicken...I DO appreciate your other advice. I actually am considering some and using some of it. Thank you.
The getting rid of her is just not an option...she was my responsibility when I got her as a pup, and remains my responsibility until she dies...hopefully at a ripe old age. If I thought this were truly that serious, I'd go to the vet with her and work something out.
