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Title: dog won't eat, hardly drinks. lathargic/slow moving Post by: smeb on May 03, 2009, 10:38:30 am 8 and a half year old house APBT. Came out of nowwhere Friday morning. doesn't want to eat, hasn't drank much and is just lathargic/slow moving?? anyone have ideas?
Title: Re: dog won't eat, hardly drinks. lathargic/slow moving Post by: Mike on May 03, 2009, 01:48:17 pm Have the vet do a blood test. Could be a number of things. My dog is down now with ehrlichia and i've also had some in the past with swine brucelosis... all had the same symptoms.
Title: Re: dog won't eat, hardly drinks. lathargic/slow moving Post by: smeb on May 06, 2009, 08:11:55 pm ended up being some virus?? they didn't know what. the peniciln i was giving for a few days was helping but then we took him in. The penicilin would probably have taken care of it but we just didn't know.
Title: Re: dog won't eat, hardly drinks. lathargic/slow moving Post by: sgt.davis on August 05, 2010, 09:24:56 am Have the vet do a blood test. Could be a number of things. My dog is down now with ehrlichia and i've also had some in the past with swine brucelosis... all had the same symptoms. HEY MIKE IS THE BRUCELOSIS CURABLE? IM TAKING HIM TO THE VET TOMORROW BUT WAS WONDERING SOME OF THE SYMPTOMS. I JUST LOST A DOG A COUPLE DAYS AGO AND HE WAS DOING THE SAME THING.IT HAPPENED IN ABOUT 3 DAYS. THANKS, CHRIS Title: Re: dog won't eat, hardly drinks. lathargic/slow moving Post by: Mike on August 05, 2010, 10:02:50 am Yes, if you catch it and treat it early enough. You'll know if it's brucellosis because their testicles will swell up. If it's just the symptoms mentioned above, it could be a number of things. My old Blue dog had those symptoms and had to be put down. He evidently picked up some type of poison in the field and his organs were shutting down. My Tweety dog had them and it ended up being erlichia from a tick.
I'd get him to the vet, especially if you already lost one. |