Just want a bit of advice please.  My 4 month old puppy started with sickness and diarrhoea on Thursday afternoon/evening.  He's still drinking plenty of water so he's not getting dehydrated and the bouts of vomiting don't appear to happen when he's just eaten or drunk.  He goes really quiet for a little while and then starts leaping and frolicking about like a mad eejit and then quiet and sad again...it's like sometimes he forgets he's unwell (or he remembers that he should act unwell!)  Have taken all wet food away from him and just left the dry down.  I can't feed him chicken and rice cos he gets sick with chicken, as does my other pooch.

Hubby is reluctant to take him to the vet because he's still quite perky and not being sick or pooing loads really, just a couple of times a day for each.  The poo shoots out of his bum at a 90 degree angle (sorry for the gross info) with no consistency to it at all.  Not watery though, very brown and very stinky.

Now, he has been eating things he shouldn't.  We chased him round the garden with some plant bulbs he dug up (don't know what variety they were), he also chews roots, stones, paper tubes, the hinge from an old cupboard door we have outside, berries, bicycle pedals and seats etc...all the usual tasty stuff!  He hasn't been sick yet this morning or been to the toilet properly but he's still going through his sad phase sometimes and has a windy bottom.

Sorry it's so long but I'm sure there's something I've forgotten to tell you.  Don't want to run off to the vet just for an upset tummy so wanted to know if any of you have had experience of this?

Thanks.

Even when drinking water he can become quite ill with prolonged diarrhoea as he will not be able to replace the minerals and salts with water alone.  I think you need to see the vet as this has been going on for nearly 48 hours which is a long time for a puppy.

Have you tried scrambled egg and kaolin and morphine? 

I would also try to get to a vet for a check up, I tried most things with my GSD when she first came to live with us, but ended up at the vets and antibiotics were the only thing to shift it.

If you were stuck you could try rehydration sachets that are sold in Boots, but they are different from what the vet could give you and only to be used as a stop gap.

Puppies can go downhill very quickly and you may end up with a higher bill if you have to take the pup out of hours or on a Sunday, so if there's a saturday afternoon surgery that may be your best bet?

Good luck and let us know how you get on please :)

My vet does an all day Saturday surgery so I took him there at 3 o'clock.  She said it was most likely something he'd eaten (probably the plant bulb).  Of course, while we were there he was in one of his perky states and only started to feel sorry for himself again just before we left her.  Anyway, she gave him two injections, one antibiotic and one to settle his tummy.  We left with a sachet of that stuff to put minerals and salts into his system and some more antibiotics but not before he gave her stethoscope a chew.  She said he wasn't dehydrated and didn't have a high temperature but she wanted to be sure and that we should take him back to open surgery in the morning if he's sick or has diarrhoea at all before then.  Got to feed him bland soft food until Monday at least, possibly even into Tuesday and then slowly introduce his normal food (does this mean bicycle pedals and twigs then??)

He definitely seems perkier but you can't help but worry, can you?  Better go, he's started to eat my fireplace....:rolleyes:

LOL @ Bikes and twigs :rolleyes:

I think the antibiotic will clear him out, and I am really glad to hear it's nothing serious.

Your vets has an open surgery on a Sunday - that's a good service, even in London that's a rarity.

They're open from 8.30am until 6pm every weekday with between 6pm and 6.30pm as open surgery.  Then on a Saturday they're open until 4.30pm and it's open surgery on a Sunday from 10am while 11am.  There's always someone in the flat upstairs on a night for the animals that are kept in and they are only a small vets with about three surgeries.  I realise how lucky we are when I hear of people having to wait days to see their vet.  You always get a same day appointment at ours and they are a very popular surgery.  Don't know how they do it!