Took our older dog to the vet. He has been a little off his food for a couple of days, a bit lethargic, but yesterday he seemed to stop drinking water.
Still peed, but very resistant to going out, so ten seconds later he went on the floor. Trying to tell us something, it seems.
He got "looked at," severely, samples taken, stool (yep, live sample), urine, (catheterized, unpleasant, but I restrained him during the procedure. He still loves me and thinks I saved him. God bless him!) and blood (Leg, so not bad, he really did not mind after all the other) and vet gave us some antibiotics to give him. They will notify us of the results of all the tests.
I thought and asked, Wait, if we don't know what might be wrong yet, how do we know what medicine to give him?
She assured me that it was a very wide ranging penicillin equivalent to help build his own defenses and it will only help whatever might be wrong.
Honestly, he seemed better at the vet than he did last night. So, maybe nothing big is wrong yet. He is assessed by the vet as way older than the shelter told us four years ago. Maybe twelve to fourteen years old, not eight. We were told by the Humaine Society that he was three or four when we got him.
I've had old dogs. He has cataracts. I knew he was old, but the news from a trusted source seemed to bother my daughter. I tried to tell her.
Should call me by Monday with formal test results.
