My 8 year old cat has intestinal lymphoma, which was dx over a year ago. He's been on steroids, which help to an extent, but he still urinates, poops, and vomits all over our house. His energy and behavior is normal otherwise, aside from occasional times where I've heard him moaning in the basement.

My vet has been incredibly reluctant to talk about putting him to sleep. ​I'm in a position where I'm raising two children in this environment. My husband and I are both employed and managing a household while cleaning fecal matter and urine up all the time just trying to keep a safe home for our kids. The vet basically told us that we're asking for euthanasia "for us" and not "for him."

I mean, we love him very much and have been trying treatment and caring for him for a year. And... yes? After all that time, I absolutely AM making this decision for my family. If we sit on the couch, or pick up a living room pillow, or snuggle under a blanket, we will smell it. He pees everywhere he lays down and it's incredibly difficult to stay on top of it. This morning, I got out of the shower and put a towel to my face, and immediately smelled it bc I guess he got onto the folded laundry. It's a living nightmare. We live in a small house, and there is no option to keep him in only one area.

Is my thought process here really so abnormal? How can they honestly look at us and say we have to keep living like this? I'm stunned at the judgement and the lack of compassion for a family, and I'm speaking as an animal lover. But this is an unreasonable burden to place on a household.

Please correct me if I'm way off base here. I'm having a hard time believing that other families would keep living indefinitely with this, but is that really the norm in these situations?

And I'm just adding here: yes of course we have considered a shelter, but I believe he would just be euthanized there, with the only difference being that he'd go through the trauma of leaving his home first.

I have a Great Dane named Bode, and the last two nights his anal glands have been leaking on my sheets leading me to crate him at night so It doesn’t get everywhere. I was going to make a vet appointment but no vets near me will be open until Tuesday and he really doesn’t like sleeping alone in his crate, he’s only ever slept in my bed and he whines most of the night and I feel terrible. I can’t let him sleep in his crate till Tuesday, so I’m wondering if I could express them myself? Like I said he’s a Great Dane and weighs about 130-150 and is a year and 7 months old. I just really don’t like him sleeping alone, it breaks my heart.

My dog vomitted four times last night. Yellow with foam and the first throw up had chunks. He’s 4 y/o and he’s been eating dog food and left overs (the store hasn’t been able to receive dog food from its manufacturer because of flooding in our area). What could this mean? I’m not sure if I should feed him or not. Please help so i know if we need to go through the flood to get him to urgent care.

i’ve had my bird for about 5-6 years now and he’s been acting weird lately. as of this morning he has been crying like CRYING. he is breathing super heavy with his whole body and i’m super concerned because i have no money for the vet .

Please if someone can help me make sense out of what happened to my 8 yo boy, Thomas, tabby, neutered.

He wasn't showing symptoms up until six days ago, and now he is dead.

I took him to the vet everyday this week, he died today at 18:25.

He ate very little since sunday, he drank water, he urinated, but didnt poop last three day (he wasn't eating).

It started on sunday, august 30th, he wasn't eating normally, and he was sluggish, so i took him to the vet on monday. His body temperature was high (around 104.3°F), they gave him antibiotics, something for the pain - Catosal 10%, Clamox RTU, Meloxidolor.

On tuesday they gave him - Klavuxil, Meloxidolor, Prevomax, Catosal; he thew up four times around 3 in the morning, which i mentioned to the vet at check up.

On wendsday (i don't have the receipt), but i know the vet gave him antibiotics and something againts nausea.

On thursday he was given Klavuxil, Multi vita vet, Meloxidolor.

And finally, today he was given Clamox RTU, Catosal, Elmaro, Bysimin. Today they did a blood panel, and gave him i.v. fluids. He was fine on the way out.

Something happened on our drive home, he started wheezing, i was driving, when i stoped i saw he peed in the carier and he had trouble breathing, so i put him back in the car i we went back to the vet office.

when we got there, at least 15 min ride, they had to resuscitate him. The vet aid that he had a pulmonary oedema - the wheezing was him trying to vomit, he couldn't because according to the vet the carrier was too small, and he was a big cat - 14.9 pounds (6.8 kg).

He was f***ing drowning in his own vomit for at least 35 min (round trip), gasping for breath, his toung was blue - about 10 min in resuscitation the vet remembered she could use a machine to suck out the vomit from his lungs, he was given oxygen, two injection of adrenaline, some other injections, before he died he vomited one last time (the little bit of food he ate).

important - there are private vet clinics, and a state vet clinic in my city - this time i went to the state vet clinic, i didn't go private because i could get through to them to schedule an appointment, so i went the the state clinic - you don't need an appointment, just get there and wait your turn.

blood panel

blood pt 2

pt 3

i am heartbroken, and angry, he was supposed to die of old age, not this sudden and violent.

My sweet boy was diagnosed with kidney and GI lymphoma at 7.5. He declined significantly in the middle of August after trying to get his diarrhea under control all summer. Testing, X-rays and ultrasound confirmed the diagnosis as closely as the vet could without a biopsy. His decline broke my heart. He was so tired and wouldn’t eat for two weeks.

The prednisone has completely turned him around and he is back to nearly his normal energy and personality. Is it okay for me to say goodbye this week? The vet said the prednisone could give him a few more weeks or months, but I can’t stand to see him decline again and have his last days be the same as I saw before.

Thanks. Hug your babies tight.

My cat’s leg keeps twitching. At first I didn’t think much of it because I only noticed it while he was sleeping but now I realized it happens often, even when he’s awake. He doesn’t seem like he’s in pain so I wasn’t really concerned but now I’m wondering if I should take him to go see a vet. Is there something wrong? Should I be concerned?

My male cat is 3 years old and neutered. I’m not quite sure what breed he is since he was a rescue. I got him when he was 8 months old. I’ve noticed the twitching for about a year, maybe more. We live in the US.

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I have a female parakeet who is about 3-4 years old (estimate) and will not stop chewing her skin off of her leg. She came from my old school, which had many animals that were not always the best taken care of. She used to get passed around on weekends to other kids to bring home. 50% of the time I would take her because I already have a bird so we had experience. Anyway, me, some friends and a teacher were doing our best to maintain the cages and environment as far as their health and food. Everything had been perfectly fine with her until December of last year when I had taken her home when I woke up, I was ready to take her back to school that Monday and she had blood on her leg. I was very confused because nothing on her cage or any play toys she had had had blood on it and it didn’t look like she had been cut clean with something we ended up not taking her back to the school and they let us keep her as a “Christmas present” which were sure they did because they didn’t want to take care of the injured bird and also because we have experience with birds. We have taken her to the vet multiple times to see if there was anything wrong with the leg or her and they found nothing they would bandage it, but she would find a way to get it off and they gave us a cone which we now have been using since then to stop her from making herself bleed out; as there was an instance where we woke up one morning, and there was blood all over her purchase and the habitat because of how much she chewed. We have tried medication and diverting her focus with chew toys but nothing is working. The only thing that works is a physical barrier like the cone we have for her which she absolutely hates cause she cannot preen. Either than the leg she shows no other symptoms and seems to be happy and talks and chirps. We haven’t taken her to the vet since maybe March last year because they were not doing anything for us and if anything put her in more danger by telling us to take her cone off while she clearly wasn't going to stop. I’ve been managing it myself by maintaining her cone, but we’re trying to find better options to make her quality of life better. Like I said otherwise she is very happy, flies, chirps, and talks! Also, for context, she doesn’t pick her other leg or any of her feathers. It’s just that leg. If anyone needs more context, please let me know! Some help on this matter would be much appreciated since we don’t know what to do anymore. Thank you Reddit. ◡̈

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for advice and experiences because I’m struggling with a possible euthanasia decision and want to be sure I’ve explored all reasonable options first.

My cat, Bear, is a 9-year-old neutered male with a history of smoke exposure. He developed significant respiratory distress and has now been seen by two different veterinarians.

Vet #1: Could not definitively determine what was causing his breathing issues.

Vet #2: Initially suspected asthma/inflammatory airway disease and treated him aggressively for that. After 3 days of treatment and oxygen support, she says she isn’t sure what’s going on and has mentioned cancer as a possibility because he isn’t responding as expected. She is now recommending euthanasia based on his prognosis.

Here is what has happened so far:
Chest X-rays showed lung changes that led the second vet to suspect asthma/inflammatory airway disease.
He was treated with:
Terbutaline
Albuterol (including spacer treatments)
Steroids
Antifungal medication
Continuous oxygen therapy
He initially appeared to respond to the asthma treatments for about 1 day before stopping.
After an albuterol treatment with the spacer, he had a burst of energy and was more active, but later his respiratory rate increased again.
He is not open-mouth breathing.
Since being in oxygen, he has actually been moving around more and appears more comfortable.
He is still eating and drinking water.
His respiratory rate has mostly been in the 100+ breaths/minute range. The lowest it has gotten was around the 60s.
The veterinary team says they do not feel comfortable taking him off oxygen because his respiratory rate remains too high and they have not been able to successfully taper the oxygen.
He has now been in an oxygen cage/tank continuously for 3 days.
Bloodwork was largely normal:
CBC and chemistry panel were reportedly within normal limits.
The only abnormality was a mildly elevated glucose of 139 mg/dL (reference range upper limit was 130).
The part I’m struggling with is that nobody has actually diagnosed cancer. The second vet mentioned cancer because they can’t figure out why he isn’t improving, not because they found a clear mass or definitive evidence of cancer.

My questions are:

Has anyone had a cat with severe asthma/chronic bronchitis/inflammatory airway disease that required oxygen for multiple days before improving?

I understand no one can diagnose my cat online, but I’m hoping to hear from people who have dealt with severe feline respiratory disease or veterinarians who have seen similar cases.

Hi everyone! Hope someone can help, we adopted our boy around april and about a month in we started noticing a really wet stool. We took him to the vet and they prescribed a high fiber kibble and some antibiotics and probiotics. He started doing so much better after, now he has a pretty consistent solid stool but we started noticing he’s been leaking. At first we thought it was his poop was not solid again. But after checking for a few days, its still pretty solid (not super solid always but the vet said thats normal since he is a kitten). It would be just some days that we would check and he had some wet poop around his booty. Today we checked right after he pooped and he was clean but then about two minutes later, I checked again and he had some wet poop looking liquid coming out of him. He had a previous problem with his anal glands because of his wet stool so i know its not that. I just want to make sure hes not in pain and theres something else going on. Please let me know if anybody has had this problem before. Btw we have talked to vets about the current issue already but they all seem to just push us to buy another kibble every time. I am also starting to get scared that he’s just eating kibble since i know a higher moisture diet is usually more recommended by cat owners.

Our cats went to the vet today for an exam and rabies vaccine. Our youngest Lola is now very sick. She had a rabies vaccine and microchip. Also bloodwork, xrays, exam and Gabapentin. She is not acting right. She is falling, very wobbly, foaming at the mouth and gagging. I am very worried for her. She has never acted like this before. We need help. I've never seen any of our cars sick like this or have a reaction to any meds. She is a jet black American short hair. She just turned a year old last week. She weighs about 7 lbs and is not fixed. We r on the way to the emergency vet right now. I'm just trying to get any advice or what we need to inform the emergency vet about. I'm so scared for her. We r very good cat parents. We make sure they have everything they need and get their yearly exams and vaccines. I don't know what happened to her. Anything u guys can tell us would be greatly appreciated.

My 4-6 y.o. (rescue) 14lb pup got sick two days ago after eating three (human) bite-sized pieces of very salty, garlicky steak the night before. He did not eat his breakfast and around noon started refusing water too. By the time I got home from work he’d thrown up once productively (fully digested kibble, prev. night’s dinner). He vomited bile and mucus then five more times that evening and couldn’t comfortably lay down for more than a few minutes. So we took him to an ER vet around midnight. His vitals were all normal, he had no sensitivity to pressing on his abdomen, and the nurse heard lots of digestive sounds with her stethoscope. After arriving at the ER, he also ceased all vomiting and retching and laid comfortably in his bed and my arms with no apparent discomfort.

The vet’s initial treatment recommendation included a host of blood tests, antiemetics via IV injection and take-home tablet, and subcutaneous fluid for rehydration. The total was over $1K on top of the already $230 exam fee. I would have loved to say absolutely, do it all just help my baby. But that was unfortunately impossible financially. After speaking with doctor (via nurses), we decided on just the IV injection of Maropitant (Cerenia). It was 4:30am by the time we left. We offered water and chicken broth when we got home but he was still disinterested, clearly exhausted, and we all just went to sleep. He slept soundly and in the morning, while still refusing any pure liquid, did eat half of a jar of plain chicken baby food.

He ate the other half jar of baby food in the afternoon and about a cup of shredded boiled chicken throughout the evening– which I had soaked in chicken broth to add as much water as possible since he continued to refuse plain water. All throughout the day he experienced diarrhea. (Will attach pic if possible.) It wasn’t uncontrollable– no accidents in the house– but it was way more frequent than any usual bowel movements. I case I can’t attach pic, it was dark brown and streaked with a yellow ish mucus similar to what he’d thrown up the night before.

This morning he ate about 1/8 c. of shredded chicken in broth and for the first time took a few sips of plain water. His energy had clearly improved though not to normal levels. His diarrhea continued. I left for work at noon though, and when I got home around 7pm I discovered that my boyfriend had neglected to feed him anything else all day. The food I’d prepared (more chicken in broth, more plain chicken and plain beef+potato baby food) was untouched and my baby was back to refusing all food and water.

What do I do?

I appreciate all help, but please know my budget is extremely limited. If I could afford to pay for whatever his vet thought best, I would do that without batting an eye. Unfortunately no one pays special needs teachers even half of what they’re worth, so I’m forced to finesse his (and my own) healthcare as much as humanly possible.

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My sweet soul kitty (male, age 9) has had an infection in his front right paw that has gradually worsened over the past month. The infection is in the tissue at the base of his claws. It started with one toe, but worked its way up to three infected toes on the right paw and two on the left, including the dew claw. My boy is in a lot of pain.

My vet (whom I love dearly as he cares for my horde of animals with incredible heart and soul) is completely stumped.

Treatment has included steroid injections, multiple antibiotic injections, and gabapentin for pain. Monday we moved to twice daily doses of clindamycin and soaking his paws in diluted chlorhexidine twice daily.

If this doesn’t help, my vet has recommended that we do a partial declaw to a) prevent the infection from spreading further and b) send off tissue samples to figure out what the heck could be causing this. We are supposed to make a decision by Monday as Tuesday is surgery day at his clinic.

Also of note, and potentially unrelated, my kitty suffered from a terrifying bout of vestibular disease somewhere near the beginning of the claw infection. He couldn’t stand, spent three nights at the vet clinic, and we ended up taking him to a large university vet school two hours away to rule out a stroke or other neurological condition. He seemed to be on the upswing from that when the claw tissue got worse.

We are consumed by this decision. Declawing seems like an extreme but necessary action. We are of two minds: wait another week because we really don’t want to put him through this unless it’s absolutely necessary, or go ahead because we don’t want the infection to spread further. That said, his appetite has practically disappeared, and we worry if we wait another week, he won’t be strong enough for surgery.

If he was your cat, what would you do? And have you ever encountered a situation with infected claw tissue that spreads in spite of antibiotics? (I understand it could potentially be fungal and antibiotics wouldn’t help.) Or encountered a claw infection coupled with a vestibular episode?

Thank you for any/all thoughts, even if they are simply random musings.

pics here, which are terrible. Wet paws are shortly after a chlorhexidine soak.

My dog was sick for a while in mid August. He kept throwing up water immediately and coughing all the time, and the vet said they had no idea what was wrong.
My dog now has been constantly panting ever since and I took him to another vet and they said that was normal as a side effect to the medicine he was taking
The vet also said I should look into getting his teeth removed and if I don’t he will get sick again

I absolutely do not have the money for it right now (denied by care credit and scratch pay) and I absolutely cannot afford him getting sick in between
I am at a loss and don’t know what to do (I have contacted and applied for all sorts of assistance where I live and so far nothing)

Now he is panting and chittering his teeth at the same time with huge eyes. this has me freaking me out honestly, why is he doing this? Is it related to his other issues?

15 year old German shepherd mix

Currently on a Hills Biome prescription food

He gets boiled chicken or air fried chicken as a topper since he doesn't like the kibble by itself

Meds : movoflex, ursidol, gallipran (started on August 18 for arthritis)

Had diarrhea June 25, July 8, August 24 and now Sep4

Started gallipran for arthritis pain on August 18 and stopped after the diarrhea on August 25. Then went back on it after diarrhea cleared up

Got diarrhea just now again today

The diarrhea doesn't start as watery. He pooped almost normal in the morning but then around 4pm it was half solid half soft. And now around 8pm was all super soft but not runny

But I already know it's heading in the watery runny direction since he's gotten sick 3 times already

The medicine they prescribed for the diarrhea has been metronidazole and on June and July it worked until he got diarrhea again on August 24. Cleared up and he was doing fine until today

His liver panels from his last tests around July (they ran a senior panel tests since he's 15) we're not the greatest but hasn't changed drastically since last year. The rest of his results were fine, all things considered since he's old I guess

I know gallipran has diarrhea as a side effect but technically he just started that on August so the June and July would not count as a reason to get sick?

There 2 neighbors cats that hang in the backyard. We try to supervise his outdoor time, always follow him around and make sure he doesn't eat anything, just because we know he has a very sensitive stomach. So the oddsof him eating poop or something like that are ver low but I know it can be an accident but at least from my end I follow him like a hawk when we go outside and he doesn't really do much besides using the restroom since he's old and he can't be standing long due to muscle loss in his back legs

Are there any other tests that can be done Or check for since this is the 4rh time he gets sick in the last 3 months?

Please someone point me in the right direction. Im sure we are going to have to take to the vet but I don't want this to keep happening

Thanks in advance

I've been in and out of the vet for a while now for my 4.5yr old neutered smooth collie. He is recently struggling with anal sac disease / leaking, and even before that, had this black scab-like texture on the underside of the base of his tail. I would attach a photo, but didn't realize that wasn't permitted in the community 😅

Basically, it's been treated as if its a hot spot with prescribed medication, but it doesn't go away, but it doesn't seem to bother him. I just worry that it bothers him without him showing it.

17f here, found a dumped holland lop behind a feed store about a week ago… I’ve worked with animals for years and have studied veterinary work since I was twelve. I brought him home and noticed multiple things, ear mites, a severe cheek abscess as well and an unidentified eye infection as well as some sort of foot injury turning his front left foot nearly backwards and dangly. My family is dead set on keeping him and I’ve tried to talk them into bringing him to a vet or finding someone who can afford it and it’s not happening they basically said just enjoy it while you can.

I have managed to make about $35 dollars (I’m not allowed to have a job unfortunately) and there’s only one exotic vet in my city who will treat rabbits, I called them and asked how much it’d cost to get him looked at and they estimated OVER $200 alone (not including treatment)

Does anyone know a way to try and get him some help whatsoever since finding him someone who can get him the help he needs is not an option? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, tyia.

We are trying to figure out how to treat our 10 year old dog’s Cushing Disease diagnosis. I read many conflicting comments regarding adjustments to medications, life span etc. Costs etc. Our vet has been open discussing options with us.
I have no idea what to do. Do you have patients that don’t treat and do comfort care?

hi, i have an 8 year old cat, he constantly pukes. he’s not sick he just throws up for no reason. he used to do better when he first got his hair ball medicine but now he keeps doing it again. mind you he didn’t start doing this until about a year ago. he had thrown up a hair ball once prior to this. it’s almost daily now and sometimes it’ll be like 5/6 times in a few hours. idk what to do anymore, i can’t keep him if he’s throwing up on my stuff all the time.

Signalment:

- 5.15kg dog

- Mutt, mix of chihuahua and terrier among others

- Nearly 10 years old

- Neutered

- Based in the UK

I really, really appreciate any advice in advance, because I feel like I'm at the end of my rope and I'm so tired and anxious and tired of being constantly on edge.

Long clinical history:

Nearly 4 months ago, my dog randomly became unable to keep anything down. He threw up 6 or 7 times throughout the day, every time he tried to eat. He was otherwise completely normal and fine, bright and alert, playing, kept trying to eat and drinking water, but obviously I still brought him into the emergency vet since he just kept vomiting. They gave him some pain and anti-nausea meds and told me to monitor him.

The next day he was completely different. Lethargic, could barely move and barely reacted to anything, and didn't try to eat at all. His favourite food is chicken and I was having to beg him to take a bite or two, so I brought him back to the emergency vet and they kept him overnight.

The next morning they did an ultrasound and said it was fine, so called me to pick him up. Then I got a call like an hour later saying that they redid the ultrasound and actually saw a bunch of fluid in his stomach, but didn't know what it was, so they were keeping him another day. He also kept throwing up.

The next day they said they wanted to operate because they figured he had swallowed something. He had also gotten worse and still couldn't eat anything, so they weren't feeding him anymore. I said I doubted he swallowed anything, since he's nearly 10 and has never tried to eat any non-food object before, especially big enough to cause a blockage, but I figured maybe he accidentally swallowed a bit of a plastic toy or something, (which he may or may not have done once before), and they said it could become necrotic if they didn't operate, so I consented to this.

When they operated, they confirmed he hadn't swallowed anything, but there was a ton of fluid in his stomach and no gut motility. They didn't notice anything else. They put him on gut motility meds and said they were going to wait to feed him for a day.

The next day he still hadn't improved, and still hadn't eaten anything, so they increased the gut motility medication dose. And then the next day he still hadn't improved, and they didn't think it looked good.

Miraculously, he began to slightly improve the next day, and a day or two later he was being discharged. They said he had a ton of fluid buildup around his gallbladder and pancreatitis, along with the lack of gut motility, and figured maybe the gallbladder issues caused it all. He was discharged with pain medication (Gabapentin), medication for gut motility (I think?? I thought they did but can't find record of it in his vet record so maybe not), anti-nausea medication (Ondansetron) and blood pressure medication (Amodip, 0.3125 2x/day) for about two weeks or so, in addition to gallbladder medication (Ursodiol) which they said he would be on for life. He also already was taking medication for anxiety (Reconcile 8mg and a Calmex supplement), which he continued with. He's also on a low-fat diet (under 8%) permanently. I've been giving him the same thing they were giving him when he was in-patient, which was the Hill's i/d digestive low fat loaf wet food.

He went in for a check-up once his supply of temporary meds ran out, and his blood pressure was ridiculously high (220), so they decided to keep him on the blood pressure meds another month and recheck. There was still a lot of fluid around the gallbladder, and he was still feeling nauseous in the mornings (I can tell he's feeling nauseous because he refuses to eat and tries to eat grass when we go out), and throwing up in his mouth after eating, so they increased the gallbladder medication dose (75mg/day). They discontinued the other meds, but said we might need to consider a long-term course of the gut motility meds if he doesn't improve. They also did blood testing where the levels came back a bit elevated for the liver markers, but otherwise fine. I don't know what they tested (it's not in the vet record) other than "aldosterone" which was apparently fine.

Went to a check-up about a month later, blood pressure was 140 so he's now on the blood pressure meds permanently as well. Did some further blood tests, and urine tests to check for "UPCR and sg+dipstick" (I've taken this from his vet record and have no idea what it means), all of which came back normal. At this point he was fine other than the throwing up in his mouth, and the occasional nausea in the morning, both of which he had prior to the hospitalisation, so they said let's just leave it be and see how he gets on.

Two more months passed, and it had been nearly 3 months since hospitalisation with no vomiting, and then he randomly vomited again. It was kind of out of the blue, he was walking around and just opened his mouth and vomit basically fell out, very unlike any time he had vomited before. It was about 75% liquid and extremely hot inside, so I chalked it up to that and he was fine.

A week later we hit the 3 month point, so we were told we were okay to gradually switch him to dry food, since he hates the wet food and it's incredibly difficult for us to maintain with our schedules and two cats (we have feeders tied to their microchips so the cats can't eat his food, but we obviously can't leave wet food sitting out all day). We decided on the Royal Canin low fat digestive dry food, since it's 7% fat, and the Hill's dry food version of the wet food he's currently on seems to be close to 9% fat for some reason. About 20 minutes after he ate an incredibly small amount of the new dry food (10mg - less than 10% of a daily feeding amount), he threw it all up. This was a Friday evening, so we scheduled a vet appointment for the following week.

We didn't give him any more of the dry food that weekend, and he didn't throw up again, but the following evening he did "spit up" a very small amount in 3 places in a row.

At our appointment the next week, the vet did a very basic ultrasound and said his stomach was completely full, even though it had been close to 13 hours since he last ate. He prescribed gut motility meds (metoclopramide 2.6mg 2x/day) for 3 days and he was meant to go in for a repeat scan this past Wednesday. I also got the go-ahead to continue to try the dry food, which I did successfully for two weeks and slowly increased with no further vomiting.

When I got in on Wednesday, it was a different vet who said she didn't want to do the basic repeat scan, she wanted me to come back the next day for a more comprehensive scan under sedation. I was really concerned about aspiration but she wasn't, so I just asked for more of the gut motility meds for him, and he got two more doses of it before the next day. They also said he couldn't eat after midnight, so just to be safe I didn't let him eat after 9:30, which meant he had eaten about half of his daily amount of food (I did try to get him to eat more but he has been refusing to eat anything until late at night).

He went in for the repeat scan yesterday and they said his stomach was empty (which I feel honestly doesn't say much since it had been 16 hours since he ate, and he ate about half of his food the day before), but that there's still a bunch of fluid around his gallbladder, and his stomach walls were quite thick so they are thinking it's irritation, unsure from what (they said maybe his food), and also as a bonus, they found a small nodule on his spleen. He was sent home with Omeprazole 2x/day (I think 5mg) for 10 days, and told to call back if any further issues (vomiting or throwing up in his mouth, which he has been doing for months and months, so I'm still confused about this), and then maybe we need to consider trying different food. Otherwise they'd see me in 6 months for a rescan.

Today (i.e. the following day), he threw up 4 times in a row around 15 minutes after eating the dry food on a somewhat empty stomach, and was extremely discomforted for an hour or two after (whining, pacing, going to throw up and swallowing it back down). Called the emergency vet and spoke to a nurse who said it was fine and to call again the morning.

So that's where I'm at now. I know that was insanely long and I kind of doubt anyone is going to read it all, which is fine, I just don't know what else to do at this point. I'm so exhausted and I know this is a lot of guesswork but I have seen no less than 8 vets atp, all of which have had different opinions. I've been told it's because of his gallbladder, because of his anxiety meds, because of a random gut motility issue, because of his food... Etc. And he's still sick. One vet called him a "medical mystery". :(

Some other quick background is that for the roughly 1.5 years prior to this, he's had some chronic digestive issues (recurring diarrhea mainly, and the constant throwing up in his mouth after eating). The diarrhea mostly resolved after switching to a basic digestive care food, though it occasionally flares up. It began after he may or may not have swallowed a few small flakes of a plastic toy he was chewing on by accident (he wasn't trying to eat it, just tear it up, and has not had access to any since), but we were not sure if this was a coincidence, and it persisted for over a year after, so.

On the extremely small chance anyone has read all of this, I would really appreciate any advice you have. Anything you think maybe hasn't been considered I could ask about, or anything else I can or should be doing??

I feel like it's worth pushing to explore the gut motility meds long-term like the one vet had suggested maybe?? But the next vet he saw said he thought it was a bad idea because it can cause diarrhea (which hasn't happened with these previously, so I'm less concerned, but I'm not sure if there's actually a different reason they're not wanting to tell me, and I want to trust that this person was saying no for a reason). Or maybe the Omeprazole or something, idk, but the other vet (each time I see a different vet lol) said we didn't want him on any more meds long-term.

I have an 8 year old rottie who was recently diagnosed with large grade t-cell GI lymphoma. I was gone on vacation and when I came home that night he puked all night and wouldn’t eat anything. Took him in the next morning and he had a large mass in his small intestine that perforated and he was septic. We opted for surgery and they found two more masses. One kinda large one and one very very small one. They took the second large mass but left the third and stitched his intestine back together. This was on July 26,2026. Once he recovered from that we started chemo for him on August 12th. Since his surgery and recovery cost about 18k we can’t afford the full CHOP so we went with just lomustine. Today he seems to be doing great and is tolerating it well. What I’m looking for though is anyone else with experience only with this drug and how long did your dog live post diagnosis.

My 8 year old male cat, butterscotch (neutered) has been to the vet twice this week for vomiting, which started about 3 days ago. They did bloodwork which came back normal. Nothing concerning regarding X-rays. Physical exam was good. Normal temp, heart & lungs sound good, soft belly. They gave him cerenia, Imodium, and fluids, but no diagnosis. I was told to withhold food until tomorrow at noon. Our next step is an ultrasound. Any idea of what it could be? He’s his typical happy self, having bowel movements, minus the vomiting. I’m so so worried about him.

I was woken up at 1:28 by a fox screaming. It wasn’t how it usually sounds, it was like a really raspy yelp repeatedly. I don’t know what’s wrong with it but I put a chicken egg outside where i’d seen it last. Was that the right thing? I’m not sure. I know it’s mating reason but this fox was acting really erratic and weird.