Comments on: Health Issues, Symptoms and Treatment

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:14:34 +0000

Hey, im amanda. I got my little teacup chihuahua on the 12th which was on a thursday… I woke up this morning and her and my other teacup was throwin up. I got worried and brought them to the vet as soon as i could. The on i got on the 12th her name is chica…the boy is chico. Chica hasnt been wanting to drink or eat. Chico eats everything n he doesnt have diarhia and hasnt thrown up anymore… Chica, wont eat her food so i fed her some hamburgar meat from mcdonalds…she loved it. But still wont drink anything. Shes the one im worried about. I have her on IV fluids and watch her all through the night…i havent seen her poop yet she hasnt pooped today…it confuses me bc she’ll be down & sometimes she’ll be playful. What is wrong with her????? Plzz…help me and save her life!!! Any advice besides the vet bc ive already been there!!! Thank u.

By: mayra

mayra — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:37:03 +0000

my chihuahua is almost 5yrs old and i WAS REAding about the kennel cough and it sounds like she has that it started when she was about 2yrs I thought it was asthma couse it looks like she cant breath, what can I do to help her?

By: cassandra

cassandra — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:00:34 +0000

you can take your dog or animal to the local university and the students who are taking the vet courses they will only charge you for medicnes

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:26:24 +0000

Christina, maybe changing your dogs food might help. Maybe she us allergic or sensitive to something in that brand of food. Oh, & just take her to another vet. If your vet can’t figure it out, try a new vet for a second opinion

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:22:14 +0000

To everyone else, when your dog acts sick or hurt, take them to the vet. Vet prices vary widely! Some are shockingly high & many very reasonable. Call around & ask how much a visit costs or how much vaccines cost, etc. dogs can’t tell you if they aren’t feeling well. Usually by the time symptoms are bad enough to be noticed by the owner, the problem has probably been coming on for a good while. If they are acting odd, depressed, withdrawn, helping when you pick them up, take them to the vet! Even if your only symptom that “your dog just isnt acting herself”. People know their dogs & vets know this. If they are not acting themselves, then something is wrong. It is cruel for you not to get them care when they need it, they can’t take themselves to the vet, & cant tell you how bad they are feeling or how much pain they are in. Pkwase consider these things & ALWAYs take your dog in & not sit there and have them suffer while you hope the problem goes away. A good vet will work with you or direct you where to go if expense is a problem. Oh, & to the person who’s dog shakes their head & falls down. Take her to vet. Ear infections are very painful & can cause deafness. Take that baby to the vet please people.

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:10:44 +0000

Stacey, what you described what your chi is doing sounds just like my sisters boxer symptoms. He gets this awaits stare & starts bobbing his head like he is catching flies. My sis scoured the Internet b/c the vets didn’t know what it was & he didn’t do it all the time. She found something called Bobble Head Syndrome. Common in boxers. She read that it is due to low blood sugar. At the time, we had went to leaving food out all the tine, to feeding them twice a day. So, we figured that was the problem. We went back to having food out for them all the time & he hasn’t had it since. Appears to have been due to drop in blood auger due to us feeding them only twice a day. We think that he just wasn’t eating enough to sustain him to the next feeding. Hope this helps!

By: Christina

Christina — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:48:42 +0000

Hi there, i just recently got a baby toy CHi and she is awesome, but very , very tiny. I have had some problems with her health, she has had some sugar drops and some upset stomach and bowels. I took her to the vet and they gave her an antibiotic for her an antiboitic in the sulfa drug line. It did help her, but now we are back to the upset stomach and bowels and being lazy. It’s not due to sugar drops that is causing her to act like this, because i have kept up with the nutra -cal. She is now 12 weeks old and weighs 1 lb and 3 oz. I had a good vet so i thought, until she needed to be seen one morning and they would not work her in, so i am searching for another caring vet. I love my baby Tinka and i am going to do what it takes to help her get healthy. Good luck to everyone.

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 06:56:38 +0000

I have my little chloe in the last week her left ear has become hyper sinstive and when she trys to shake her head she goes down on her tummy all legs out and looks at u as to say wow what happened is this just an infection or something more please some advice would help also I read they need calicum and karo syrup why is this and how much is what she would need I am lost she was my daughters dog but she is now mine and I am lost as to over all health. Thanks

By: Lorain

Lorain — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 15:48:03 +0000

My buttercup is almost 8years. For the past month she has not been herself. she become mellow. less agressive and not as loving she sleeps all day . she dosn’t what to go out for her walk. sshe seems so sad. she sometime yelpse when i pick her up. please help

By: stacey

stacey — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:11:34 +0000

Hi, I have a 3 1/2 year old male Chihuahua that is acting very strange. he will pace back and forth on the edge of my bed really fast and bob his head up and down and side to side. He acts like he sees things or trying to catch flies that are not there. He hasn’t slept in days the vet gave him something to help him sleep but that hasn’t even worked. This has been happening on and off for over a month now and i’m getting really worried. I have her sister as well and she used to get the same thing but not as bad but she hasn’t had any problems for over a month now. what could it be… please help

By: Angel

Angel — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:11:23 +0000

I just got my first Chihuahua. I was told he was house broken and in good health. I first realized he’s not house broken, though with direction will use a piddle pad. Secondly I noticed he’s a trash digger. Leaving me to believe he was a back yard pup who learned a meal could be found in the garbage. I think he prefers garbage as I have had a mess trying to get him to eat the right foods. Finally..I noticed a tint knot on top his head which appeared to be in the skin, as it moved when the skin moved. I watched it & thought it had gone away, but realized it had moved further back on his head. As of yesterday..his whole top head is full of these tiny,pin head sized knots. Does anybody know what they are ? The cause & how to rid them?

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:50:56 +0000

My boy is 10yrs old. he has epilepsy, and thyriod problems. Took him in for blood test. He his gained 2 lbs in the last three months. Looks hard and puffy on main cavity. Should I get x-ray, or we are getting fat, diet and walking first?

By: chi owner

chi owner — Wed, 18 May 2011 09:16:08 +0000

I own 4 chis, they were all rescues from the local shelter and vary in age from 8 weeks up to 2years. When i got them they were in horrible condition, one was said it may not make it. i offer this advice as an experienced owner, please cook your dogs food and don’t feed them that crap they try to sell you “dog food”. your babies are so small and the food in dog food is just food that was deemed “not fit for human consumption”. an easy recipe is to take fresh ground turkey breast, brown rice, a teaspoon of flax-seed oil and veggies such as cauliflower, peas, carrots and / or beans and make a mix. You can cook several days worth and store it in Tupperware / freeze excess. I buy the veggies in the frozen section and just steam them in the microwave, couldn’t be easier and your babies will gobble them up….they will be healthier, have a much shinier coat!

By: Taylor

Taylor — Wed, 11 May 2011 21:59:22 +0000

i just recently got a toy chihuahua for graduation she will be 8 weeks old this coming up Saturday. She has had some diarrhea and was walking funny yesterday when i came home from school at 1:30 and i fed her and she was better. well today i came home from school and i went and tanned and got home about 2. well she was very lethargic could barely stand and she couldn’t hold her head up i was freaking out thinking she was going to die well i was about to take her to the vet but i wanted to give her some wet food first to see if she had an appetite and she ate it but she fell over in it and rolled she was so sick and weak. i took her to the vet and they got me seen really quick she had perked up some since i got home from school she could stand now and move around he said her blood sugar was 23 and it was supposed to be like 130 or something … im really glad i came home when i did or she could have died. hypoglycemia can be really scary because low blood sugar can kill you in a very short amount of time… he gave me something called “nutri-cal” it looks like honey or caramel and she actually really likes it he told me to give it to her 4 or 5 times a day. she was so much better after giving her the nutri-cal she is still very tired but she has her playful moments. shes still very wobbly and weak when walking and she doesn’t really want to walk right now. im hoping she will be better by tomorrow. it’s really scary knowing this can happen to your pets. i already worry constantly about stepping on her or someone else stepping on her haha i love my baby girl

By: misty

misty — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 04:58:56 +0000

i have a min chihuahua hes bout a yr old weve moved around alot but the past three days hes acting sick. Hes laying around hes usually a hyper dog n hes crys when u touch him every now n again he eats but not much ive been giving him pedialyte to help bt what else should i do i believe hes depressed bt wats up with the symptoms

By: Ariel

Ariel — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 03:54:29 +0000

my dog is about three months and today she has been acting weird. She has been sniffing around the house as if shes finding something, she sometimes has a ‘tear’ i think on her face, she is reacting to small noises like a zipper being zipped and shes really tired. We had company come over and she was touched alot and she was playing around… and we just got her 3 shots 2 days ago…. so is my puppy sick or is she just tired?

By: Litsy

Litsy — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:57:17 +0000

my dog doesent want to eat or drink nothing and he is so cold and hes been vomiting also what should I do?

By: Teresa

Teresa — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 02:02:26 +0000

hello…I have a 10 week old chihuahua. My husband brought him home 3 days ago. We immediately noticed that he was not acting like a normal puppy usually does. He has been peeing, but not drinking alot of water. He was not eating at all. The 3rd day we had to take him to the vet immediately, since he litterally slept the whole time and we spotted bright red blood spots in his feces. They said he was probably depressed and gave him sugar water to bring his blood sugar up and we have been feeding from a serringe since he wont eat on his own. We have fed him since yesterday, 4 times a day, every 3-4 hours and he still isnt up and aware, he has been sleeping all day and his feces still had some blood and i honestly do not know what to do. We called the vet back to update him on our baby but he never called us back.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 11:09:40 +0000

I have a new litter of 4 puppies. For some reason now I am greatly in fear of vaccinations for them.. they are the smallest babies I have ever seen and I am very attached to all of them … They are now 6 and 1/2 weeks old and regular little members of our household.. The smallest male is probably barely over a pound and a complete riot.. I am keeping all of the puppies LOL… What should I do as far as vaccinations go? I have always given all my other dogs their shots myself , but now I’m worried to do so and even more afraid to have the local vet do this.. any advice here would be great…

By: miguel

miguel — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:18:58 +0000

i bot a tea cup chihuahua puppy i dont no how old he is but he vomiting diarrhea a lil bit has worms doesn’t move as much crying every other hour i don’t like this it scary i gave him his fomer an water also so pediatric he going to the vet at 8:30 am i hope its not that bad i gave him a gift for my girlfriend for xmas any help plz!!!!!!