Some of you might remember about a week ago I made a post about Zero having what I thought might be heat stroke. I want to thank all who responded again, but as it turns out, the problem was not heat related.
Zero was having episodes of vomiting at night time; I figured it was from the heat, seeing as he has a really thick coat. The days following that post, the vomiting continued but the heat did not. It got to the point where he could not keep a meal down. He was vomiting up everything undigested about 4 hours after he had eaten it, suggesting that the digestion process wasn't even beginning.
We went to the vet the following morning and tried to describe what had happened the night before, but Zero looked 100% fine to the vet. No sore abdomen, happy wagging tail.. no signs of anything being remotely wrong at all. He sent us home with some gastro food and said to "see how it goes".
I gave him some gastro, and sure enough about 4 hours later at night, he was having another violent episode of vomiting. Screaming, writhing around, twisting and bowing all over the place. I decided to take this video to show the vet the following morning.
WARNING: May be upsetting to some..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9cn6HlLSM_k
The vet was concerned so all day today, Zero has been at the vet on IV fluids and had X-rays done which showed nothing abnormal. They then decided to do some bloodwork and I will know the results in the morning. He is now home for the night but will be back to the vets in the morning for more IV fluids, therefore he has a catheter in his arm.
Hopefully the blood tests will show what's wrong. Until then, it's still a mystery. I will let you all know tomorrow what the results say.
Zero was having episodes of vomiting at night time; I figured it was from the heat, seeing as he has a really thick coat. The days following that post, the vomiting continued but the heat did not. It got to the point where he could not keep a meal down. He was vomiting up everything undigested about 4 hours after he had eaten it, suggesting that the digestion process wasn't even beginning.
We went to the vet the following morning and tried to describe what had happened the night before, but Zero looked 100% fine to the vet. No sore abdomen, happy wagging tail.. no signs of anything being remotely wrong at all. He sent us home with some gastro food and said to "see how it goes".
I gave him some gastro, and sure enough about 4 hours later at night, he was having another violent episode of vomiting. Screaming, writhing around, twisting and bowing all over the place. I decided to take this video to show the vet the following morning.
WARNING: May be upsetting to some..
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9cn6HlLSM_k
The vet was concerned so all day today, Zero has been at the vet on IV fluids and had X-rays done which showed nothing abnormal. They then decided to do some bloodwork and I will know the results in the morning. He is now home for the night but will be back to the vets in the morning for more IV fluids, therefore he has a catheter in his arm.
Hopefully the blood tests will show what's wrong. Until then, it's still a mystery. I will let you all know tomorrow what the results say.
