Vets please help. My 4 year old French bulldog is having loss of appetite and lethargic. Bloodwork clean. Don’t know what it could be.
Hi vets. I have a 4.5 French bulldog, neutered, weight is 28pds.
I’m looking for some advice because I’m getting really worried about my frenchie and we were just at the vet 3 days ago.
A few days ago he had a sudden loss of appetite and was only eating 1 meal a day late in the evening. He was pretty lethargic in the mornings and wouldn’t eat or drink water until later in the evening after adding different toppers to his food. Then it got to the point where he didn’t want to eat his food at all so I had to add rice and 90/10 boiled ground beef to get him to eat. The whole time his stool was fine and there was no vomiting.
He saw the vet on Wednesday where they did full panel bloodwork, pancreatitis testing, and rectal exam which all came back normal. The vet said to feed him a bland diet but I can add in a little of his food (farmers dog beef) so he’s not completely on a bland diet. Thursday night he had what I think was a colitis episode at night where he went back to back to the bathroom and had a bit of straining with mucus stool. Friday he woke up and ate his food normally and also dinner normally as well. No stool movement.
Saturday( today)- he did not want to eat this morning and his stomach was making loud sounds. He was mostly sleeping and I saw him hold the prayer position a couple times. He ate the rice and ground beef at 230pm and wanted more food which I didn’t give. 7pm he woke up and drank water and then vomited yellow. I made an appt for tomorrow to our vet.
What can this be at this point? Is it gastritis, lingering colitis, gas, food intolerance, possible pancreatitis, or something else? Will the xray show something if he most likely gets it at tomorrow’s visit? What can I expect because I’m thinking the worst.