Last night she scared the crap out of me. I noticed she was going around the house howling and she did that for about a hour before my alarm bells went off. She does howl from time to time but never non stop like last night. In watching her, she was running around frantic, would squat where ever she was and strain.. I would check where she strained and nothing was there so I panicked.. Was she blocked? She would run from me when I would try to pick her up so I could check her bladder, would not let me touch her. She was freaking out and so was I. I called her vet and my call was rerouted to the ER vet in Baton Rouge. During the time I sneaked into the room where the kennel was kept and got it ready for her and actually got her... (had to do the "ignore her" game to actually catch her), she had dumped a rather long poop (for her) on the kitchen floor. I snatched that up in a zip lock bag to take with us thinking it may be important. Her going OUT of the box has NEVER happened before so that alarmed me also.
She howled all the way over there. In the exam room waiting for the vet, she was investigating it and acting pretty normal. He came in and I explained what was going on and he checked her bladder which he said was hard to find because it was just about empty. He checked her colon and said she was sensitive there and it was probably all about her trying to pass that long BM. He gave her a anti-inflammatory shot, told me to watch her and follow up with her regular vet if she continued to act like that.
Once back home, it took her awhile to settle down but she finally did and has been her usual self ever since.
This was my first real scare with any of my "girls" and I hope never to have that happen again! She is her usual self today, thank God!
(I had to get Rie to come take us over there since I knew I was to panicked to drive.)
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