My Pug Scoop (Precious Scoop has passed... )

Sharlene-Scoop ate his chicken when I gave it to him. It was weird. It was like he just wasn't hearing me but I was right next to him. Recently he's been giving me a hard time about not wanting his dog food and carrots but he will eat Raleigh's food, anything more meaty. The vet changed his food. So far he ate that. It's only been a few days. Yesterday he has such bad gas, worse than usual, then the next time he pooped it was pretty soft. Today it seems better. I don't remember exactly what day it was last week he had one of his weird episodes after supper and he vomited 3 times. One wasn't much at all but the other 2 were. Everything just seems so off lately. I'm so scared for him.

I was never able to do home BG testing on Scoop so if they are off, I don't know. I did check just a while ago with a keto-diastix and it was high according to that, like it usually is.

Just went out for another poop, 3rd today. It was very, very soft. Maybe it's the new food. Just thought it was weird since the soft one yesterday he had 2 that were ok and now one soft.

Well it could be a new food. That can always be tricky. Or could be something else such as pancreas too. Any signs of pain in the abdomen? Scoops hearing might be getting a bit more off too. Have you looked to see if there is any redness there? rule our an ear infection?
It's scary how many things can be wrong with these little babies and it's hard for them to tell us what is what.

hugs,
Sharlene and Molly Muffin

No signs of pain. His ear doesn't look bad. He had another soft poop yesterday. Couldn't tell this morning's. It was dark. Will check it out later when I clean it up. Scoop has been drinking so much water about the last week or so. This morning got up at 2:45am, got a drink, 3:30am got a drink, 4:30am got a drink, after he ate at 6:15am got a drink, 7:45am got a drink. Diabetes, cushings, kidney problem?

Anybody see anything of concern with Scoop's bloodwork?

Hi Vickie,

The thing that jumps out at me are the liver values. Has the vet mentioned anything about that organ?

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alk. phosphatase, 2029, 10-150 U/L
alt (sgpt), 447, 5-107 U/L
ggt, 68, 0-14 U/L

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Some of the electrolytes are a bit low.

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NA/K ratio, 26, 27-40
chloride, 99, 105-115 mEq/L
sodium, 138, 141-156 mEq/L

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The blood glucose is too high. Was a urine test done to check for diabetes?

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glucose, 273, 60-125 mg/dl

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Was the BUN or creatinine listed as high? This ratio indicates something was off with one of those values -

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B/C ratio, 30, no range given says High

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So based on my VERY limited understanding, I would want to know about Bug's liver, kidneys, and diabetes status asap.

Hang in there sweetie, you are doing a fine job.

Hugs,
Leslie and the gang

Leslie-Thanks, I appreciate your help. Scoop is diabetic, not well controlled.

The vet mentioned the one liver value was close to the same as his previous test and the other went down a little. Not sure about the other one.

Nothing was said about the electrolytes. I'll have to look up his last test results and see what the vet says. I know they should be checked when an ACTH is done. Could slight low counts have anything to do with cushings?

From what I can see it doesn't say if it's the BUN or creatinine that's high. Just says what I wrote. Would it be listed right there with B/C Ratio or somewhere else? When Scoop had his fructosmine test and his urine test to check for protein the vet said he was concentrating nicely. She gave me a couple of numbers but I didn't write down what they were for. She goes too fast for me sometimes. She's always in a hurry. I haven't gotten copies of those tests yet. I looked up reticulocyte. Scoop's is a little high. That could have something to do with his kidneys, too. He will have another urine test done next week to check the protein again.
Big hugs.

Can anyone tell me how to archive private messages? Thanks.

Hi,

I am not aware of any on line archiving but you can download them to your computer.

Goto your messages
Tick the messages you want to download (click in the little box beside each message to the far right OR click the top little box and it will apply a check mark to all the messages on that page).
Goto the bottom and you will see "selected messages" and there is drop down menu
Choose the format for this download

Another way would be to create a new folder called archive and Move the checked messages to this new folder. (will have to recheck to see if members are able to do this - but try it anyway). Look at the left hand menu bar going down the side and click on EDIT FOLDERS. Follow the instructions from then on.

Terry

Hi Vicki,

If you recently changed to a new food and Scoop is having soft stool, did you transition from another food over a weeks time? Hopefully his system will get used to the new food or you can cut back to the point durring transition that he did not have soft stool, stay on that mixture for a few day, whatever it was, say maybe it was 50% new food and 50% old food and then do the next step more slowly. Sometimes they just need a little longer transition.

Hang in there, sweetie, you are doing good!