On 30 Jul 2006 09:42:17 -0700, "Jay" , clicked
their heels and said:

Janet B? Still there! Im really sorry for the time Im getting...anyway,
thanks for the help. God bless you and help me pray for my dog that
she'll be still alive tomorrow so i can bring her to the vet..please!
in the power of prayer I trust...help me please...

I wish you both the best. Let's hope she makes it overnight and you
see the vet as early as possible. Raising abanadoned puppies is not a
simple thing to do. Come back and let us know, hopefully with good
news.

--
Janet Boss
www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com

Jay wrote:

i think she's in normal temperature...i ask a student who study as a
vet about my puppy. he said there's just some kind of worms in her...so
he ask me to make the dog take a pill to release those worms with
feces. my dog did but she still don't wanna eat...i dunno what's
wrong...im starting to accept what will happen next but i don't want it
to happen...im really crying now! help please!


Jay,

I don't want to get your hopes up too high, but to get your puppy
through until tomorrow, possibly the most important thing you can
do is try to prevent or improve dehydration. If she is not eating at
all, try giving her Pedialyte or Gatorade instead of water.

I have two five-week-old puppies I am hand raising, and one has
diarrhea. I don't think he's as sick as yours, but I also just wormed
him on the vet's advice, and today he didn't want to eat. I made some
boiled white rice and mixed in a little cottage cheese, checked the
temperature to see that it was warm, not hot or cold, and he ate it
willingly.

I also found this site,
http://www.leerburg.com/pup-med.htm
which covers a lot of things including how to get a little food and
liquid into a reluctant puppy. I haven't tried the techniques, so use
at your own risk.

If you can't get food or drink into her mouth, perhaps your vet
student friend can get the equipment and solution to give her
subcutaneous fluids, and explain how to do it. I don't know if that
would be considered ethical or not, but it is not really difficult to
do, and can be a lifesaver.

Are you feeding this puppy kibble, or milk replacer, or what?

Amy DAhl

Jay, I hope you are checking this. I have somewhere I have
to go, and I don't know if you're still on line or if your puppy is
still alive.

Let me repeat that the most important thing is to keep your puppy
hydrated. I have seen mighty miserable-looking puppies and dogs
improve "miraculously" when given fluids. I have kept a very, very
sick puppy alive that way for three weeks while we struggled to find
what was wrong with her. A vet said to me once, "people can
survive cholera if they can stay hydrated." Dehydration is a killer,
and is often the reason a dog looks miserable and weak.

The reason for the cottage cheese and rice is that it is very easy on
the dog's digestion. Boiled white rice is considered 100% digestible,
and the protein in cottage cheese is one of the easiest for dogs to
handle. I used Esbilac formula on my puppies, and it contains the
same protein as cottage cheese (casein). It also has a much higher
water content than dry feed, of course, and probably a more
appealing smell. I am lucky, so far, with my puppy in that he
is well enough that the warm, moist cottage cheese and rice mixture
appealed to him when the dry kibble did not.

I hope you get this, and that your puppy pulls though.

Amy Dahl

WHY HAVEN'T YOU TAKEN HER TO A VET? A VET IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS
GOING TO BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR DOG'S LIFE! WE CAN'T!

On 30 Jul 2006 08:54:53 -0700, "Jay" wrote:

sumone please help me...im not sure but i think my dog is dying.
she doesn't want to eat for the whole day...she's weak, she wanted to
vomit but nothing come out her mouth...she neither want to drink any.
she likes hiding somewhere where i can hardly see her..please help help
help!! before it's too late!!! please!!!

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:01:49 GMT, Dreamspinner3
wrote:

WHY HAVEN'T YOU TAKEN HER TO A VET? A VET IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS
GOING TO BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR DOG'S LIFE! WE CAN'T!

The world is a very big place, and there is not a vet in every corner of
it.

--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
-- Francis Picabia

in thread : Shelly
whittled the following words:

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:01:49 GMT, Dreamspinner3
wrote:

WHY HAVEN'T YOU TAKEN HER TO A VET? A VET IS THE ONLY PERSON WHO IS
GOING TO BE ABLE TO SAVE YOUR DOG'S LIFE! WE CAN'T!

The world is a very big place, and there is not a vet in every corner of
it.


That's true .. but there was no way in the world that a newsgroup could
help this dog except by offering moral support to the owner. And
sympathies. I hope the puppy is ok.

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:02:10 -0500, diddy
wrote:

That's true .. but there was no way in the world that a newsgroup could
help this dog except by offering moral support to the owner. And
sympathies. I hope the puppy is ok.

Absolutely. But yelling at the owner to do something that s/he has
already said is impossible, which is what Dreamspinner did, is just
plain unhelpful. And it's kinda mean.

--
Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)

What I tell you three times is true.
-- Lewis Carroll

On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 20:31:45 -0400, Shelly
wrote:

Absolutely. But yelling at the owner to do something that s/he has
already said is impossible, which is what Dreamspinner did, is just
plain unhelpful. And it's kinda mean.

You're right, it was mean. I apologize to the original poster, I
didn't know that you are in a part of the world where emergency vets
are not available. It is just so frustrating to see posts like this
come up time & time because the majority of them are posted by people
who could very easily get their dog to a vet or an emergency vet but
simply don't. I shouldn't assume that each post like this fits those
circumstances.

Again, I apologize. I hope you're puppy will be okay. Maybe you
could find a human doctor who could give your puppy fluids under the
skin to help keep it hydrated until you can get to a vet? I know that
is a long shot, but maybe?