We are sick
I went to see my doctor today about some persistent mild abdominal pain I’ve been having, and, after feeling me up, she prescribed me two antibiotics. I took the first one (metronidazole) a few minutes ago, and it was awful. The pill, medium-sized, wasn’t coated at all; when I failed to swallow it on the first try and it started dissolving in my mouth, I gagged and almost threw up.
I managed to get it down on the second gulp, but the horrible, bitter taste lingered, even after a whole glass of water. I thought some food might dull the taste, but I only ended up bitterizing the first half of my dinner. One down, twenty-seven to go. Blech.
Any suggestions out there for swallowing nasty, uncoated pills? I think I might try putting it in a spoonful of yogurt.
Sam is also ill today with stomach troubles, which I strongly suspect he brought on himself by snarfing down a dead bird Tuesday night. And I mean a VERY dead bird, as in lying in the parking lot for three days, run over by multiple cars dead. The thing was nasty. When I saw he had it, I yelled DROP IT half a dozen times, spanked him, and even held him face-down and shook him (not too violently), but to no avail. I saw the squashed head hanging out of his mouth but couldn’t bear to pull on it, so down it went.
He hasn’t eaten or pooped in two days, so we’re going to the vet tomorrow. He doesn’t appear to be in any obvious pain, and he doesn’t mind me poking his guts, but he’s been generally mopey. Last night as I was going to sleep his tummy produced these incredibly loud gurgles for the better part of an hour. It didn’t seem to bother Sam, though—he dozed off just fine.
I can’t get him to touch kibble, rawhides, dog cookies, or even pizza crusts, but of course this morning he grabbed a piece of bone out of the grass and managed to crunch it up before I could get my fingers in there. He vomited up that delight this afternoon.
By the way, Sam’s vomit, no matter what he’s eaten, is always neon yellow, as if he’d swallowed a highlighter. Is this true of all dogs? If so, why? Whence the brightness?
Tags: Sam
April 25th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Think thats doggystyle!
Ours always had ‘glow in the dark’ vomit aswell, so it might be in the genes!
April 25th, 2008 at 10:55 am
oh just looked it up, its normal when dogs do the yellow foamy stuff when they eat stuff like garbage or people’s food (pizza crusts?)
May 15th, 2008 at 8:32 am
“Any suggestions out there for swallowing nasty, uncoated pills? I think I might try putting it in a spoonful of yogurt.”
Yeah, I may be able to help. I just try chewing up some food first. something more hearty (like a bite of hamburger). I think that chewing up this food makes you salivate and makes you ready to swallow, so then you can pop in the nasty uncoated pill just before you swallow the bite of chewed-up food. You won’t even noticed the pill if you do it right; it’s like tricking a dog into eating a pill by sticking it in a hunk of bread or something.