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Anyone recognise the symptoms?
hello everybody. This is my first visit to Pet Forums and I'm hoping someone may be able to give me some advice about Herbert, my 9/10 year old Battersea terrier cross. Normally full of beans, he's been laid low for about 2 weeks, starting with a nasty stomach bug - diarrhoea not vomiting - which the vet treated with antibiotics - Metronidizol. The treatment left him very weak and listless, and he didn't really eat anything for about a week - just water and a few bits of white fish. he then began to throw up whatever he ingested so we took him off the antibiotics a day early and he improved a bit. Thought he was back on his feet again but he still has very little appetite and as a result is very low key and dreary. He tends to sleep most of the day anyway but is now very inactive (he may well be lacking energy due to lack of food) and even walks have become a battle. he CAN run about - I chased him as he ate an old bit of bread he found in the park this morning! - but is mostly walking like a geriatric. He's also prone to going into a bit of a trance, so I have wondered whether he still has an infection or perhaps a bladder problem? I know these can make humans nutty, so why not dogs? He has also started peeing in the house and this morning he'd had a pooh in the sitting room.....it's a bit like he's got dementia, sometimes he's with us and other times he aint!....I have tried every type of food to get him interested again, but so far it's limited to a couple of biscuits or bits of carrot a day. Obviously I'll take him back to the vet if it continues, but if anyone out there recognises the symptoms or has any tips for getting him to take an interest in eating again I'd be most grateful. Many thanks.
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