We have had our rescue for almost a year. He is nearly 3 years old. Although he has many behavioural issues he is basically fit and healthy.
However, at the beginning of last week he started to yelp when he ate and it became apparent there was something wrong with his mouth/jaw area.
Because of his history, he does not like to be examined thoroughly and absolutely hates the vets (we have to have examinations either in the car park or go through to the vets via the back door).
The vet could not examin him so we opted for him to be put under anaesthetic on Wednesday for a thorough examination of his mouth and ears.
He had two Trazadone beforehand to allow us to get him to the vets. The day before he had 2 Gabapentin for the pain and 2 afterwards.
The vets say they could not find anything but there was a bruised/purple area on his gum (which we believe was from him grabbing a branch from a bush on his walk a few days beforehand).
However, since Wednesday he has gone downhill somewhat. He was not too bad on Thursday but would not eat which I put down to the anaesthesia but has not touched any food since.
The most worrying thing is from Thursday he started getting diarrhoea which has progressively become worse and since Friday evening it has been pure blood (the colour of claret).
We took him to the vet yesterday. They didn’t seem at all concerned (he even passed this claret coloured diarrhoea in the examination room) and said this has probably been caused by the anaesthesia. The vet told us to get probiotics into him and try to get food in him over the next few days. He couldn’t examine him as he was too agitated, he wanted to check his gums for signs of anaemia but as he was fully alert and appeared to have lots of energy he was happy with the signs.
But dh and I are concerned this morning. We have got up to a few more piles of claret coloured watery patches in the kitchen (and he has been in the garden and passed some more) and although he has been able to go out into the garden and still seems to have energy, he will still not eat anything. Therefore I can not get the probiotics into him.
I managed to look at his gums and his under eye lids and they are very pale.
How the hell do we get food into him? I have tried everything:- scrambled egg, rice, chicken, ham, Turkey, wet dog food, his normal dry food etc all the foods he would normally gobble up in an instant.
The vets gave us some chicken flavoured hydration liquid but I can not get that in him either.
I am worried he will start to go down hill rapidly if he keeps passing this blood and doesn’t eat.
Any suggestions? What can we do?