From:
227peck@bghost.net
Date: 2001-11-18 21:20:00 UTC
Subject: Help for Yoyo, please!
The vet and I had narrowed down Yoyo's problem to an injury to
his spine. After one week of treatment on antibiotics of Baytril,
Amoxicillin in addition to Prednisone, Yoyo seemed to be greatly
improving each day and by this past Friday, Yoyo was up walking
(on all fours) no longer dragging his hind legs, and used the
litter box with no problems.
Saturday, I noticed that he was sleepier and it took some
encouragement and tempting with a toy to get him up and
moving around. This morning I came in to let my buddies out to
play and Yoyo stayed sound asleep. When I picked him up I
noticed that he was salivating and had not used the litter box all
night. When I set him down in the litter box he was straining and
whimpering and managed to only pass urine. This afternoon I
had given him the last of his antibiotics and his Prednisone. He
seemed very shaky and his head was bobbing.
When I came in to check on them this evening I noticed that the
litter box was still clean. I know that the one sure way I could get
him to go would be to put him in the tub with some nice warm
water -- this always worked before whether I wanted it to or not.
Sure enough he was in there for no more than a minute when he
started to go and again he was having difficulty and whimpering
but managed to pass both urine and stool. The stool looked very
grainy and there was not much of it.
While being dried off, he seemed to keep grabing at the towel
and whimpering like it was painful for him to try to groom
himself. These symptoms have come on so suddenly it's like a
reaction to the medication he's been on. He didn't have these
(the salivating and head-bobbing) before until he had been on
the Prednisone for a week.
I will contact his vet on Monday but if anyone has seen anything
like this please let me know what I need to be doing. It just
seems to strange to me that these have come on almost over
night so any help would be very welcomed.
Thanks,
Barb