Dog with abdominal pain

[BillyDaveysDaughter]

My terrier is really suffering tonight - hard stomach making all kinds of squealing, growling, surging sounds, restless, keeps pacing, stretching and pulling her hind feet up. She has been panting on and off so I know she's in pain.

She's been fine all day, ate breakfast as normal, hasn't had anything else. Her discomfort started around 4.30pm and although DH kindly put wellies on over his pj's to walk her around the nearby field to have her fill of long, thick grass for 20 mins, she's still not right and has barely given the chicken breast in her bowl a second glance.

These absolutely nothing I can for her is there? She's not vomited or had diarrhoea and there is plenty of intestinal sounds...can't think what might be going on. She is 10 and takes long term medication for spinal pain (but haven't managed to get any meds down her tonight, the painkillers might have helped).

I'm wracking my brains for something to soothe her, poor old girl.

I would suggest she sees a vet sounds really severe if she won't settle.

She needs a vet tonight , could be some kind of abdominal blockage .

Vet .could have a blockage.

I'd take her to the vet if that was my dog. One of mine has a longstanding dodgy stomach but I've taken him to the out of hours vet for less.

Vet asap. It could be gastric dilation or something else sinister and extremely serious.
Abdo pain is horrific - she needs medical treatment

Hmm this dog has had so many medical interventions in her life, she's no stranger to the vet - they invariably give her a sedative and the episode passes. She finds vet visits very traumatic so we hold off where possible.

She's also quite neurotic, so we give her a chance to settle on her own first by following our usual routine (going to bed as normal). In fact, she has actually come up and stretched out beside me, and hasn't got up for a few minutes - that's a good sign I hope.

I wish I could give her a rennie to settle her stomach! It's very very active and noisy.

Quite a few posts while I was typing that. I think there would be less sounds if thee was a blockage? What's dilation? She's a small, 7 kg terrier. Has eaten nothing other than dry food at 8am ish, has been drinking as normal.

Oh okay, I googled...dilation is bloat. I wonder if she would be trying harder to vomit if it was that, plus she hasn't eaten. Unusual in small dogs too?

Well, although the noises are still loud, that's not unusual for her when she's empty anyway...and she has now stayed settled for 15 minutes, which is an improvement. I'm not going to sleep yet - I'm recovering from gallbladder surgery myself, I've done bugger all all day - so I'm watching her closely. She seems more relaxed now.

If she was mine and I thought she was in pain she would have been at the vets fore treatment or at least pain relief.

My mums 14 yo JRT/border x had something similar sounding a couple of months ago and had to spend 2 nights at the vets on a drip .

She's ok. She vomited a little froth, ambled off and ate some dinner and is now snoring peacefully in her own bed. Although the abdominal discomfort is unusual for her, the other symptoms (loud intestinal rumblings, grass eating, loss of appetite) are not uncommon.

Thanks for all your replies. If she had continued at that level of pain and restlessness I certainly would have called the vet, but she's over it for now - I'll see how she is in the morning and whizz her over for a check if she still seems uncomfortable.