Pet Vet Woes
Earlier this month, right before our Christmas dinner with my family, we had to take Tiabeanie in to the vets because she had a spot of diarrhea that was persistent for a couple of days. I was expecting a partial blockage, but the vet after examining her concluded the most likely culprit was - and I keep telling everyone who will listen how much I love this term - “dietary indiscretion”.
That is, she probably ate something she shouldn’t have on a walk, and it upset her stomach. Knowing Beanie, that’s really quite likely. Anyway, they sent her home with some probiotic paste and some instructions, it cleared up, and she went back in for a check-up and they were pretty happy. Thus far, she’s not had any recurrences. That’s the third time this year she’s been into the vet!
But then immediately after the lunch, we noticed that Jemima was not herself. Because of the noise (my folks are loud, and there was a lot of them) it’s to be expected that the animals would be tired the next day, but Jemima was both very tired and not eating, nor pooping, all of which was concerning.
So we made an appointment for her, which involved actually setting her up at the vet, as she’s not been since we adopted her, and Horsham PAWS had her at a different vet. Whoops.
They checked her out and found a small lump that felt like an abscess on a tooth (a molar on the right lower jaw I think?), and she had a mild temperature. They sent her home with some antibiotics and meloxicam (which is terrifying stuff if you read the potential side-effects, I think it’s basically similar to Ibuprofen but animals handle it differently). Both of these can lead to soft stools, which they sure as fuck did, but at least she’s eating.
The course of these made her perk right up, and she was better on the follow-up (including temperature back to normal), but now we’re waiting for her stools to firm up…
She’ll likely go back in in January for a teeth clean and they can inspect things while they’re in there. I absolutely hate having one of our pets knocked out, but she’s done fairly well that she’s about 8 years old and hasn’t been to the vets since spaying.
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