Poor Skippy!
On Thursday, yves told me he walked out into the dining room that morning to find what he thought was Neo’s hairball spitups. It happened again Friday morning. Saturday morning around 2:30, I woke up and forgot to bring up the heat for the night so walked out into the dining room to do so and stepped into this mushy mess. I didn’t have my glasses on so I just hobbled into the bathroom to wash my foot in the sink. I was pretty sure it was Skippy’s doing. I went back into the bedroom to get my glasses and slippers and was cursing under my breath as well. I guess that woke Yves up and I told him what happened.
He still wasn’t convinced it was Skippy’s doing because it didn’t smell like stinky poop. I was pretty sure it was. That night, we kept Skippy in the kitchen all night and sure enough, he did some poop on the kitchen floor. It was soft, mushy poop so clearly he ate something that he shouldn’t have. He didn’t have much poops when he was walked either. Then that morning on the family walk, I noticed some blood on Skippy’s rectal area. That got me worried so we went to the vet later that morning.
It must have been a crazy animal day because I waited a little over an hour to see the vet and the receptionist said Sunday’s are usually smooth sailing. Turns out Skippy’s intestine was enlarged probably from eating another dog’s poop or some plastic thing or other, something not food related. Poor guy had to get his temperature taken (the old fashioned place!) and get a spool sample. He had to get 3 painful shots and I never saw him so upset. And to top that off, his teeth have gotten really bad! He’s going to have to get 3-4 teeth taken out! I regretfully have been neglecting his teeth this past year because I remember last year the vet saying his teeth were ok. Sigh. And I also asked the doctor about why he keeps peeing in the house. It’s because he still has his testicles! Apparently, it produces something called testerone (or something like that) and it enlarges his prostrate and he can’t hold his urine or release it all or something like that. Anyway, the only way to fix it is to fix him! Poor guy!
He is taking 4 medications for his diarhea, his vomiting (he did twice Sunday morning) and to temporarly stop his peeing in the house. And then after that is better, he needs to go in for dental maintenance and then after that, he will need to be fixed otherwise the vet said it would only get worse. Sigh. Poor Skippy!!
