The one word of advice I can give is this: Some dogs react poorly to certain dog foods or human foods. I would change the dog food to another brand or if you give table foods, experiment with different combinations for a few days and see if you notice a difference. Can be a long process, but we eliminated chicken strips that you buy in flats and we noticed a HUGE improvement in our dog. Take note of certain preservatives.
Does the puppy walk with a stomping sort of gait; Heavy footed? Could be neurological.. Don't let a specialist raid your wallet and then tell you he or she "doesn't know". Try a change of food/diet.. Buy a microwavable bag of veggie (cauliflower/broccoli/carrot mix), set it to 4 minutes then cool for mixing a portion in with the pups regular dog food.
Having a dog can be heart-breaking, but you do your best and hopefully FReeper prayers will help!
Sorry for rambling but I want to help because I love dogs!
We’re leaning towards a head injury because of the bonk on Sunday but the vet kept scaring us with worst case scenarios.
She doesn’t stomp but has a funny gait due to her puppy hood injuries.
She sort of ‘casts’ with her front legs because her depth perception and stereoscopic vision are sub-normal.
Today, she went from running outside to not wanting to moeg at all.
Then at the vet, she went from not moving to pulling me around the parking lot but with a strange leaning-into-turns with her head motion thing going on.
It’s really hard to describe.
Think of a kid playing ‘airplane’ and banking into turns with his arms, except she was doing it with her head and neck.
Never seen such a thing in my life.
It looked like severe vertigo or something of that nature.
She eats the same or similar foods all the time and though I never give her people food, hubby does.
[but I bet he won’t anymore]
FReeper prayers -always- help.
Somebody can probably find her original thread where she was nearly dead.
She is a miracle, already and that’s what makes this so heart wrenching.
Vet said the dyes can sometime cause seizure. Pup ate a little bit of morning-glory vine. I took the bits from his mouth, called the vet and he told me to bring the pieces of leaves to him along with my pup.
He checked him out and said to keep an eye on him. When I asked what I should look for, he said hallucinations!
I watched and watched as the pup just went about his business. What does a hallucinating dog look like? <8^)
Do you have snakes, spiders (especially brown recluse), mice or rats Terminex spray. Sometimes you don't see a bite mark because of the dog's fur.
I don't know what part of country you are in, but with spring, Insects, etc. climb out of their nests to get warmed,
Best wishes.
Both of our pups love cooled down green beans. A good, lo-cal treat!