My hypothesis was either 1). Stress, 2). Water (contaminated), or 3). Change in diet
Out of 9 animals, one cat was already on meds for smoke inhalation, now two dogs were going down due to something and the rest of our crew (humans included), look really, really rough.
Dr. A. Thomas Maiolo was the vet we seen today and he concurred to the theory of stress after a couple of tests and his many years of experience. He gave me some valuable information that I knew a long time ago and forgot - when anyone is suffering from diarrhea remove food for 24 hrs. By doing this you give the intestines a chance to heal itself, but if food keeps coming in - it keeps everything irritated.
The tests on Georgia came back clean on parasites, and no virus, she weighs 25#, doc gave her an injection of Vetalog and put her and Caroline on Sulfasalazine for 5 days. Though this was my first time meeting this gentleman he knew of my rescue and the fire (probably because of Phoebe Peppercorn), he was very helpful and put me at ease, he actually made me feel good about my diagnoses on Georgia, and on how well the animals are cared for.*
*Each of the animals in our rescue have a file and everything that needs to be recorded is and kept in their file, when we go to the vet office the file for that animal accompanies us. Though my memory is one of the better parts of my brain it is still hard to keep up with 9 animals and their individual medical issues.
Having a bit of an issue with the cold snap, no working plumbing and now badly soiled laundry. All of the towels I was using as beds for the dogs are covered in bloody diarrhea so need to go to the laundry mat.
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| Little Georgia not feeling so good. |
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