Got really worried when Ah Di started running a bad diarrhoea since last week, and has stopped eating 2 days back.
Brought him to the animal hospital this morning and got his blood, urine and fecal tests done.
He is diagnosed with a severe case of hookworm, causing him to suffer from a serious case of anemia now.
He was prescribed with 4 medications to be taken orally, and will have to visit the vet again in 2 weeks time for a follow up. Now, he is not eating anything already. Its really hard to get him to consume the medication, and I have to resort to breaking down the pills and washing it down his throat by force.
Its really heartbreaking to see him looking so sad and weak...
He started to show problems of having blood in his stool a few months back, and we could not find any root causes for it then when we did an examination at the animal hospital.
The vet told me today that the reasons for catching hookworms are usually due to interaction with contaminated environment (soil, grass), or through the faeces of infected dogs.
It couldn't have been his usual walking grass patch at home cause we never had any problems all these years. Then I realized that the timing for the onset of blood in his stool is coincidental with the time when I first brought him to the Dog Run. So the conclusion might be that there are some other infected dogs at the Dog Run, since Ah Di has the bad habit of sniffing at other dog's poo.
I hope Ah Di gets well soon, and I will stick to bringing him to the beach instead of the dog run when he gets well.
Everyone please pray for Ah Di to recover quickly...
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