Hi Mups , I think you made a wise decision to take Pip for IV treatment.
I know it must be really horrible for you leaving her, I would be beside myself with worry but even if she only has a few hours on a drip to rehydrate her it will be well worth it.
I am sure your vet will be monitoring Pip for signs of distress and will contact you promptly if concerned.
Years ago vets used to allow us to stay with our dogs, how times have changed.
I am so sorry your much loved Pip is not well, I know how you must be feeling, but you have done the right thing Mups even though it must have been so very difficult. Hopefully tomorrow Pip will be feeling better.
Mups, I am so very sorry to hear that your little one is so poorly. I’m new here and don’t know you very well yet, but I have had the privilege of being Mum to three beautiful girls.
Jessie was a long haired Border Collie who went to Rainbow Bridge when she was 11 - tumours bleeding into her abdomen. It happened in a day and was as fast as that. I knew she had had a good life and had been much, much loved, so that helped a tiny bit.
I didn’t think I would get another dog after losing Jess but the house was so still and silent, I couldn’t stand it, and we got a German Shepherd pup (my hubs had grown up with a GS) but lost her at 10 months - she had swallowed a tack or nail and had had to have about 2" of her intestine removed, developed septicaemia and just never really recovered. It was horrible losing her on top of Jess.
Three months later someone asked me if I would take a smooth haired Border Collie as she was the last pup in the litter and they couldn’t keep her, so we did. Had her for 2 years and she died on the Saturday of the Queen’s Jubilee…brain tumour the size of a large walnut. We had no idea and she had a horrible fit, which is what made me take her straight up to the animal hospital. They did scans and stuff and told me, and because of the size and location of the tumour they couldn’t even attempt to remove it. So my third furry baby went to join her sisters and I miss them all so very much.
My heart goes out to you in the predicament in which you find yourself. Thinking of you.
Thank you for your words of hope and encouragement one and all. You’re ever so kind, and I’m grateful.
Pip will be mortified if she wants the loo and can’t get out of her cage.
I hope they remember she is stone deaf, so it’s no good talking to her to reassure her, but she follows hand movements if I want her to do anything.
Just another hour to go and I should get an update.
Oh Mups … :hug: Pip’s in good hands… but the waiting must be awful and time never dragged so slow for you.
9 o/clock on the dot, the surgery phoned.
He said she seems peaceful, not stressed, and the drip is going in beautifully.
He thinks she will be ok to stay overnight, and the night nurses will monitor her. I said OK. They are going to phone me in the morning to bring me up to date.
They also took her for a little poddle in the garden to see if she needed to poo, and they will take her again last thing before bed.
I trust John to be honest with me, so feel a bit better knowing she is peaceful. It’s very strange at home without her though. I keep going to check on her but the bed is empty!
I am just washing her bedding, so it’ll be nice for her tomorrow.
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A good report … hope it put your mind at rest Mups.
I know how much our furry friends can bring us anxiety … but it’s because we love them.
You get that bed all nice and clean … and tomorrow it’ll need scratching about and rearranging into a heap again.
And remember to sit down with a cuppa and … try and relax yourself.
Yes, you’re right. Thanks Morty. 
Good news to date Mups, I’m glad Pips doesn’t appear stressed … they sound a very caring practice
Yes, they are Mags. I do trust them, which is terribly important isn’t it.
I guess part of my problem is, no one ever handles my dogs but me. No one has ever walked them, fed them, or done anything else for them, so we’ve got a tight bond. Not always a good thing perhaps, for either party.
Hi Mups, don’t know how I missed this thread when you started it, sometimes I don’t get to log in for several days.
Your vets are good and I’m sure they’ll do everything they can for her. I’m also sure that even 'tho you are the perfect bond she will survive a night at the vet hospital. In my experience dogs don’t go into panic mode immediately and if you are back together tomorrow I’m sure all will be fine and of course I do hope the drip and things make her better.
For what it’s worth I always think if they are eating well (Albeit on special food) then ‘the time’ has not arrived.
Will try to keep up to date on this from now on 
Dont know what to say Mups, thinking of you,i know how much your dogs mean to you. Stay strong.
Hi Mups - how is Pip today ?
Hi Mups I hope you managed to get some sleep and that Pip is a bit better this morning and able to come home.
Hope Pip is better this morning and gets home today xx
Fingers crossed that Pip will be on the mend by the time you read this…
Mups is very quiet today …
I thought the same … I hope everything’s alright.
Thank you so much again for you good wishes, and I can now tell you she is home again. http://yoursmiles.org/ksmile/dogs/k4913.jpg
The vet rang this morning and said she had been out for a wee, but seemed afraid today. I think she felt so bad last night that she was past caring, but when she woke this morning she would have probably been disorientated and worried where she was, and I had gone too. He thought he’d got enough drip into her overnight and would now be better off with me nursing her at home. He said he’d phone later to see how she was doing.
So off I goes to bring her home. When the nurse brought her up from the kennels as soon as she saw me, her old tail started wagging and if dogs can smile - she did.
She has had 4 tiny meals today, though I am concerned she is still not drinking enough.
The vet rang me tonight but it was from a witheld number and it was really bad reception. He’s not on duty really, so it must have been from his mobile. Like an idiot, I thought it was someone messing about and put the phone down!! When it went again a few minutes later, I wouldn’t answer, and it was only when I heard him trying to leave a message I twigged who it was but couldn’t get to the phone in time! I was so cross with myself, but it honestly didn’t sound like him. I couldn’t ring him back because he wasn’t at work and had witheld his mobile. The message said he will try again in the morning.
I spent this afternoon making her favourite cheesy biscuits, in between offering her frequent drinks and tiny morsels of tempting food. She has stopped vomiting and ‘the other end’ seems to have settled down too, now she just wants to sleep all the time.
So I shall see what tomorrow brings. If I stop kidding myself, it doesn’t look very good at the mo, but I can only play it by ear and do my best for her.
Thanks again for such good wishes, I’ll just pop in the bedroom and tell her. x
That’s great Mups the more she sleeps the better to give time for things to settle. Have you got any bovril or honey a tiny bit in water may encourage her to drink.
