am extremely worried,
last week my dog was given a few more treats in way of cat food then in retrospect was a good idea and on wednesday night she had runs.  fasted her Thursday but no better-and it was bloody mucus comming away so Friday was up at vets. he reckoned colitis. he gave her imobilion syrup and antibitics and said she should firm up quickly. saturday no better so called the vets emergency number who increased imobilion dose. 
shes a bit quiet but not acting in pain,not dihydrated (from skin test) still chasing cat and barking at passersby out of window but losing weight terrible, does not want to eat-all I've got down her is tiny fragment of white fish today and she is passing tarry black liquid and having accidents frequently as its still liquid :( 
we are off to vet again in morning but I am increasingly frantic over her. my last dog could have bad tums (she was wheat allergic) but I always got her straight quick with fast and plain diet aside from one occassion where ate half loaf of bread and vet gave a steroid to calm reaction down-this little one I just can't seem to get right and am worried sick. shes bright, alert, playing with cat etc but I've never seen a belly so bad .

anyone?

Hi Weimed,

> am extremely worried

Oh you poor thing! You have done everything right though (Bar the Cat food!! ;-) but we all live and learn!) But seriously, you've done the right things.
   My thieving Wuluf likes to partake of dropped kebabs in the street, which gives him the most horrendous colitis but will he learn!!?? So I can sympathise with you.
  I use Protexin's Pro-Kolin+ which is a great probiotic that helps settle & soothe the environment in the digestive system. I find this works a treat and has never failed me, have a chat with your Vet about it?

HTH.

(p.s. I find lots of dogs are 'tempted' by catfood, its the smell! Perhaps you might want to think about 'chappie' once her eating picks up as its a bland food so good for a short while to help with upset tummy but also smells like catfood so they like that!! It's certainly not something I'd feed permanently but lots of folk have a few tins of Chappie stashed away for convalesence ;-) )

I think there is a gastric bug going about at the moment.  A friend of mine woke up to find her kitchen floor covered in blood last week by her 11 year old Weim.

She was admitted into the vet and put on a drip and had to stop in overnight, but was allowed home the next morning.  Vet said is was hemorrhagic gastroenteritis.

My old girl had an upset tummy last week but was fine in herself, but she'd been drinking out of dirty puddles, which is a nightmare to try and stop her doing at the moment with all the rain we've had.  I gave her prokolin paste too and a light diet for a few days.

Hope you managed to get it sorted today :(

thank you both. will look into probiotics.
Nells a weimaraner too. she looks bright this morning but still bloody diareah. just waiting for vets to open and we are off- see what they can do.
I am horrified how much weight she has lost. when weighed friday she had lost 4kg since her spay a month ago-and has lost more over weekend.
drains all flooded here last week so dirty water is a possible cause aside from her cat food session. I thought she had been kept well clear as had been taken out only on lead however now not so certain?

Hi,
Hope your girls feeling better. My springer had this trouble not long ago, after eating some sort of sausage treat given to him by another dog walker. He like yours was passing bloody mucas, and lost alot of weight in the space of two days. He is a small springer and only weighs around 20kg so the weight loss was very noticable. He refused food for two days, this is a dog who has never missed a meal in his 4 years of life.
Like yours he was drinking ok which is a good sign. After a few days though things did start to improve think pro-kolin helped.
I was given science plan tins by the vet to try and tempt him to eat, went straight through him after only eating a tiny amount, as did chappie. In the end a tin of tuna went down fine and the looseness improved and blood traces dissapeared.
It is horrible when you see them straining and not being themselves, but through my own experience im sure your girl will be fine soon.

I havnt seen the person who gave him the sausage treat since, but would love to know what c**p was in them. You live and learn though. He hasnt though, he decided a whole head of raw broccoli was a tasty treat on friday night. Only realised when he waltzed in with the stalk sticking out his mouth.

glad to report she seems on mend.  after having good look at her this morning decided to hold off on vets for a few hours while monitered -no accidents - and she has actually eaten a small portion of chicken and potatoe-first real portion of food since wednesday and is begging for more. which I'm withholding as worried going to upset her belly again so going for 4 times a day feeds of small amounts rather then letting her scoff a big dish full which is what she is aiming at.  I'm crossing fingers over the worst of it now as no diareah after this morning-well no motions at all and she is clearly now hungry and looking for food.  I think she is going to take a fair bit of building up-like your springer Nell is quite a small dog and small boned so her weight loss is really showing. and the short coat makes it look even worse. 
Shes got antibitics till end of week so just going to watch her close and I'm hoping over worst of it. I am thinking now its more likely infection then the food as shes had fairly iron consitution up until this.

Aww thats good news :)

Tbh I'm suprised I'm not up at our Vets every bloomin' week with dodgy tums, with the amount of rubbish my lot consume :)

Agree with husky gal about Protexin, I always have it in stock, and I'm surprised that your vet didn't have you use it in conjunction with the antibiotics.

If you want to have it in stock, the best place I've found it is
http://www.hyperdrug.co.uk/Protexin-Pro-Kolin-for-Dogs-Cats/productinfo/PROTEXPK/

I had a bitch very, very ill with haemorrhagic gastroenteritis early this year, and she was on a drip (they didn't expect her to survive) but she made it.  I had her on Protexin for a while, along with AB's.