lolanu
The Clueless
I adopted a puppy on the 15th, from a foster home with forty dogs in it. The lady takes in pregnant dogs and puppies from Help Every Pet, which is a shelter that rescues dogs off the nearby reservation. While she does awesome for her situation, there's no way to care for that many dogs alone.
My puppy, River, is about three months old, looks like a German Shorthair Pointer mix, spayed way young (fully healed, barely noticable scar) and was just diagnosed with giardia, as well as two types of roundworm and some kind of protoza common in puppies. We don't know how long she's had these, and started medication today. She barely eats, her little belly is swollen and hot, and seems to have weird complusive behaviors. I am her second or third home, but she's very intelligent and actually calm. I am worried about her behavior though. She cries randomly, I'm assuming from the pain from worms, and will only use the bathroom inside unless she's desperate. The strangest thing, though, is sometimes when she's reaching for something, like her food bowl, she'll stop and start pushing around blankets with her nose, crying and acting like she's trying to reach something fifty feet away, rather than right in front of her on the ground. She licks a ton, it seems like to me, whether its herself, the floor, a blanket or a person. Now, I've never had a puppy myself, but she acts really weird to me. The not eating worries me, could it just be stress?
I guess my biggest concern is the giardia. I know that, depending on how long she's had it, it could be affecting her mental and physical growth. The blanket pushing and crying is odd. Thoughts?
My puppy, River, is about three months old, looks like a German Shorthair Pointer mix, spayed way young (fully healed, barely noticable scar) and was just diagnosed with giardia, as well as two types of roundworm and some kind of protoza common in puppies. We don't know how long she's had these, and started medication today. She barely eats, her little belly is swollen and hot, and seems to have weird complusive behaviors. I am her second or third home, but she's very intelligent and actually calm. I am worried about her behavior though. She cries randomly, I'm assuming from the pain from worms, and will only use the bathroom inside unless she's desperate. The strangest thing, though, is sometimes when she's reaching for something, like her food bowl, she'll stop and start pushing around blankets with her nose, crying and acting like she's trying to reach something fifty feet away, rather than right in front of her on the ground. She licks a ton, it seems like to me, whether its herself, the floor, a blanket or a person. Now, I've never had a puppy myself, but she acts really weird to me. The not eating worries me, could it just be stress?
I guess my biggest concern is the giardia. I know that, depending on how long she's had it, it could be affecting her mental and physical growth. The blanket pushing and crying is odd. Thoughts?
