My Toby can't catch a break

iguana

My poor Toby who suffered a really bad broken leg in April is back in hospital today with Hemorrhagic GastroEnteritis. He was fine yesterday evening when we went out for dinner with some friends. When we got home a few hours later he had been sick in the kitchen.

He was still in good humour so we initially assumed he had been sick as he had been separated from Dougal and wearing a cone as he has a cut on one of his paws that he (or Dougal) is not supposed to lick. They hate being separated, they can see each other but can't cuddle which does worry him a bit.

As the night went on he had no interest in eating or drinking. At about 1am he started being sick again with the most foul, foul smelling vomit. My husband and I decided to stay up in shift so he went to bed while I stayed up. He was sick on and off until 4am, then at about 6.30am he did a bright red extremely runny poo. We had to wait another 2 hours for our vet to open in which time he was just basically leaking red, smelly liquid.

He's in hospital now on an IV as he's very dehydrated. He'll be on antibiotics and anti-nausea drugs too. He was very upset when he was taken away, he was crying softly when the vet carried him off.:( His prognosis is good, but I'm still very worried. A few years ago Dougal's brother died from poisoning which wasn't diagnosed until after he died, so I'm terrified the vet is wrong. Dougal is looking everywhere for Toby and is very upset that he can't find him.

mymo

Sorry to hear about Toby, I hope he's feeling better soon.

anniehoo

Fingers crossed Iguana

Blueprint

Sorry he's so ill.

But I'd like to reassure you that my guy had something pretty similar last winter (started with runny poos at six, by seven he was throwing up and by eight I was calling the emergency vets as he was throwing up non-stop and it was red froth at that stage) and once he got the anti-nausea drugs etc. he was fine again by the next evening. They do look pretty miserable and depressed though, but hopefully your guy will recover as fast as Jasper did!

joyce2009

poor toby,fingers crossed for him...

iguana

Toby has kidney failure.:(

Kyri

omg /hugs hun

The poor lil tyke

iguana

The next few hours are critical. I'm completely terrified.

andreac

Oh no, poor Toby, fingers crossed that he pulls through, poor fella.

PetrovthePrat

Hi Iguana,I hope you've someone you can talk to while you've this worry hanging over you. Fingers crossed for Toby and everyone who's worried about him.

YOURFACE!

Oh No! That's awful! I'll be thinking about the little guy and you Iguana.

star-pants

The poor little thing!
My thoughts are with you and Toby & Dougal and your family
I'll hope for him to get better!

fatmammycat

Sorry to hear this Iguana, hopefully he will pull through, they're tough little buggers, dogs. My thoughts are with you.

tfak85

oh iguana, hope you, your partner and dougal are ok..... fingers crossed and thinking about toby...
xx

FAYESY

Oh poor Toby - I hope he is home & well with you soon!

iguana

He is on a very "heavy" IV to try and flush as much liquid through his system as they can to get his kidneys working again. His bladder has started to fill which is a sign of his kidneys coming back to life, so it's a good sign. The vet was positive about this but he's not out of the woods yet. He'll be on the IV for a few more days and when he comes off it they will be able to assess how much damage has been done.

My poor baby.

andreac

Well hopefully hes strong enough to get through it.

Do they know what caused the kidney failure?

Diogenes

He's doing alot better. He's no where out of the woods yet, but we got a phonecall from the vet, she helped on the operation on Toby's elbow, and called to let us know how he is.

God this was terrifying he went from puking to leaking blood out of his bum within 6 hours. God what I couldn't give for a House VD.

If you know myself and Iguana we lost a 7 month old puppy to what we thougt was a infection 2yrs ago, and we got toby as a replacement. We had two springer puppies Dini and Dougal. Dini was poisoned and died. Dougal was heartbroken. Then we found Toby He broke the mould we never thought that anyone could replace Dini, but Toby proved us wrong. The idea of losing another dog slays us. Dougal could never cope.



*The infection turned out to be a piece of bone laced with paraquat. Poor puppy Dini never stood a chance.

star-pants

Goodness that's awful Diogenes! you poor things, I can't imagine losing one of my dogs (we lost one years ago but she'd lived a good life).

My heart and thoughts go out to ye and I so so hope little Toby can pull through, I really do, please let us know how he's getting on. *hugs* to ye

Blueprint

I hope Toby recovers quickly and it's something that will repair itself over time, the poor lad seems to have had more than enough bad luck in his life!

iguana

andreac wrote: »

Do they know what caused the kidney failure?

The most likely cause is some sort of poisoning, either through eating rotten food, picking up something like an old battery in the park or possibly even a snake bite (in Surrey, Eng).

ghost_ie

Fingers crossed for Toby. He sounds a tough little guy and hopefully he'll be ok in a couple of days

iguana

He is able to urinate now, so his kidneys have recovered some function. They are doing more tests later to see how much recovery has happened.

mlettis

Thats great to hear , hope he has a full recovery.

MsFifers

Shocking tale - hope he continues to recover. The poor guy. You will never let him out of your sight again I'd say after all this stress!

iguana

Toby is home!!!!!:D

It appears the gastroenteritis caused the kidney failure, rather than the kidney failure caused the illness, which is the better outcome. His kidneys are in recovery, so we are hopeful he will make a full recovery. He'll need to be monitored closely for the next few months and is on lots of medicine and special food for now. But so far things look good.

He's really, really happy to be home and a completely different guy from the one we brought to the vet yesterday.

Here he is just home.

And back with Dougal and his beloved ball.

mlettis

ah thats great news . they are beautiful dogs .

mymo

Thats great, he looks very happy with his ball.:D

andreac

Oh thats great news, you must be over the moon to have him home.

They are 2 beautiful doggies.

fatmammycat

Absolutely terrific news!

Blueprint

Great news! I hope he makes a full recovery.

ghost_ie

Brilliant news

dee o gee

Thats good news! I can't see the pictures though?

CathyMoran

Your dogs are gorgeous, am so glad that he is doing so much better.

summer_chic

I love a happy ending ! what beautiful dogs, I love springers, they have such a huge zest for life !

MsFifers

Yay! Delighted he is ok!

YOURFACE!

Thats BRILLIANT news Iguana! Well done Toby, ya little trooper!!

PetrovthePrat

Glad to hear Toby is doing better,I bet that's a wait off both your minds. I can't see the pictures tho.

iguana

Had a vet's visit this morning and things are better than we'd hoped for. He looks set to make a full recovery. He's put on some weight, he's no longer dehydrated and seems to have full kidney function. On the first night home he needed the toilet 4 times over night and even then he peed twice on his bed. But last night he was in bed for 7 hours without needing the toilet.

The vet has doubled his food allowance which is great as he was starving. Yesterday I caught him trying to steal some bread off the kitchen counter, which is not Toby's usual style. I was just happy to see him display so much "initiative" after being so sick - though I was relieved he didn't get his paws on it, it could have made him ill again.

He even got to take a small walk this afternoon. I took him to the small park around the corner which he was eager to explore as he never goes there as dogs have to be kept on lead as it's grade II listed. (It was closed for renovations while he was recovering from his broken leg). We just had a short walk (learned his diarrhea is gone ) came home where he had his biggest meal since being sick and then he had a long satisfied nap.

ghost_ie

Glad to hear Toby's doing so well. He'll be back to normal before you know it

FAYESY

Great to hear he is doing much better! I hope he is back to normal ASAP! & fingers crossed he has no other mishap!