Pet Emergency: PLEASE HELP!!!

[w4terb0ng]

This is a little long, but PLEASE bare with me....
My girlfriend has a puppy that I've been keeping at my house, because she can't have pets in her apartment. The dog has been staying here for a few months now. When it first got here we kept it inside. My mom was saying that it had worms so we had to put it outside. I never saw the worms in her feces or anything at first. Anyhow, we put the dog outside in a fence. She was fine up until the past few days. My cousin, who also stays here, got another pup and we put it in the fence with my girlfriend's dog. It had gotten to the point (a few weeks ago) where my cousin's dog would not let my girlfriend's dog eat. So I had to start standing out there during feeding time to insure that the dog was getting enough to eat. Well, I was gone for a few days and my cousin was supposed to keep food out for the dogs. I went out to feed the dogs when I got home. When I approached the fence, she was lying on the ground on her side, just staring at me. My first thought was that she was paralyzed, as she usually jumps up and gets all excited to see me. I also noticed that she had a lot less weight on her. Well, I picked her up and brought her inside. She couldn't hardly stand up on her own without falling down. She REFUSES to eat. She drinks water on her own every once in awhile. She lays around with the muscles in her legs jumping and twitching. Occasionally, she whines. Most of the day, she just lays around for a bit, then gets up and wanders around aimlessly. We are going to take her to the vet, but cannot do so until Wednesday. I examined some of her feces out in the fence and found a really big roundworm in her stool. Will worms cause this jerking of the muscles and such? And all the sudden weight loss in just a few days? I'm really worried about her and don't know what to do until we can get her to the vet. Does ANYONE have any idea what this could be? Is it just worms? It seems that there may be more to it than this. Also, she's having alot of discharge around her eyes. This morning I woke up and checked in on her. One of her eyes was so full of gunk that she couldn't open her eyelid. The other was just blurry looking... like a thin film was covering it. Her eyes got better and finally cleared up quite a bit througout the day. Someone give me some useful advice here. My girlfriend is crying her eyes out and I don't know what to do.

w4terb0ng Reviewed by w4terb0ng on 02-28-2006. Pet Emergency: PLEASE HELP!!! This is a little long, but PLEASE bare with me.... My girlfriend has a puppy that I've been keeping at my house, because she can't have pets in her apartment. The dog has been staying here for a few months now. When it first got here we kept it inside. My mom was saying that it had worms so we had to put it outside. I never saw the worms in her feces or anything at first. Anyhow, we put the dog outside in a fence. She was fine up until the past few days. My cousin, who also stays here, got Rating: 5

[turtle420]

1st --> Your gf should keep her dog in her place.
2nd --> Take that dog to the veterinary NOW, unless you REALLY want to see your gf in tears.

WTF? How the hell could this had happened? Somebody fucked up dude... period. Doesn't matter who, this was a major fuck-up.

For feeding time, try separating them. Take your gf's pup and feed her inside the house... when she's done, put her outside.

WTF? Go to the vet NOW!

[BabyFacedAbortion]

hon, call your vet. and ask them what's going on, you can atleast find out what it could be. The worms could seriously fuck up her insides but I'm not an expert on this at all. Try and comfort your girlfriend and feed the puppy with a bottle of milk or try and get her to eat wet dog food. Keeping the puppy fed (and alive) is the important thing right now. Stay around the puppy as often as you can and pet her and keep her comfortable. Call the vet though, that's the most important thing.

[bedake]

Yea the only advice we can give is go to the vet ASAP! They can put the dog on medicine that will prolly get rid of the worms, although it sounds like the dog may have some nerve damage. Dude i watch animal planet animal cops alot, makes me want to cry at time

[turtle420]

Another thing....

Call the vet, because, depending on the puppy's condition, if you give her food, you might "shock" her system.

I have no idea what's wrong with her, but there are cases where the internals get "sucked" together. If you feed her, she could... you know. Puppy no more.

Vet dude. Vet.

BTW: Don't even THINK about paying the vet's bill. That's your girlfriend's responsibility. Trust me dude, pay this time, pay for the rest of your life...

[potsmokingnome]

Yeah call the Vet, and find a way to get the dog to the vet as soon as possible! do not wait till wednesday!

[w4terb0ng]

I've tried wet food. she won't eat it. The dog IS seperated from the other. I've kept her in the house in my room since I found her this way. I've stayed with her all day today trying to comfort her and keep her drinking water. I found her this way yesterday. I did try giving her some gravy, which she took a little, then became dis-interested in. I had considered just taking her to the SPCA and letting them have her since it won't be until Wednesday that we have the money to take her to the vet. I checked into it and from what I understand, now you have to make a reservation to turn an animal into them. I don't think she will make it long enough to wait on a reservation. I hadn't called the vet yet, because I thought they'd just tell me to bring her in and I don't have the money right now. I will call first thing in the morning and see what they say though. I'm just really worried. Thanks for the input guys. I hope I can get her better soon.

[BizzleLuvin]

definetly a parasite. probably bloodworms or tapeworm because there are none in her feces. take her to the vet ASAP or the parasites will literally consume her.get the other dog out of the yard and clean the food immediatley because certain parasites are 'contagious'. \

[w4terb0ng]

I know I need to call a vet guys. I was mainly just wondering if anyone here had experienced anything similar with a pet, so maybe I could get some advice on what to do until then. I will definitely call the vet tomorrow morning though.

[Das Boot]

My dog ate some rotten food and the exact same thing happened to him. (nothing went wrong with his eyes though) The constant jerking in his legs and inibility to stand were him having seizures.

He's fine now but he almost died. I took him to the vet a few hours after he ate the food and he just BARELY made it.

If you give a shit about that dog you should take him to a local animal hospital now. (but call first. I don't know if you described the dogs problems accuratley enough. He may not be in as a dire situation)

I just took my dog to the vet and they gave him every kind of (whatever they were using to knock him out) Drug they had in the place and it didn't make him sleep or stop having siezures.

We had to drive him to an animal hospital.