I rescued a English bull dog off the streets and were having some trouble - Page 1

 Well, she looks really bad. She had eye cherries, vet fixed them for me. Yeast infections in all of her wrinkles that smelled like death, working on those, but 85 % better. Heart worm free, thankgod. She got all of her shots. Then I took her to get spayed and she ended up being four weeks pregnant. Dr. Green removed the puppies and seen that she has had several c-section and there was a ton of scar tissue. She had a lot of trouble during the spay, because it was very time consuming, she stopped breathing, but the vet was able to bring her back. She has been in the hopital for four days and I just picked her up this morning. She still isn't eating or drinking, so I cant give her medicine. I'm going to call the vet in the morning if she doesnt eat or drink by 10am. She does seem alert and her incision looks really good. I was kinda wanting to coax her to eat, but I'm afaid giving her some kind of goodies (meaning anything I can get her to eat) will hurt her stomach and cause her to vomit.  If any of you own any bullies and have any advise let me know. Thanks

I would go slow. Small amounts. Others will come along and be able to give better advice.

She is really lucky to have you. Good luck.

SP

After any surgery involving the abdomen, the bowels stop moving (the peristalsis stops). This is why nurses are always asking their post-op patients if they have 'passed gas' yet, becuase this means the bowels are working again. If you try to eat or drink before this happens, you will vomit, no question about it.

Due to the complicated nature of  the spay, it could be her bowels are still paralysed, and if you feed her anything, it's just going to come right back up. Call the vet, have him take a look at her, and listen to her tummy. If her bowels are still silent, he will likely give her IV fluids to keep her from getting dehydrated.

Good for you for putting all this time, effort and money into rescuing this poor girl. It sounds like she may be a puppy mill dog that has been repeatedly bred so they can make money from her pups.

It is common practice in Bulldogs to artificially inseminate the female as they cannot breed naturally and also to perform C-sections for puppy birth.  Sad isn't it???  We have to aid both sides of the birthing process because the dogs cannot do it on their own. 

She is starting to come around, she began eating ,yesterday, can food and pets milk. Now she is drinking water. She looks like she is feeling alot better and Im not so worried all the time. Her eyes are looking really good and her yeast infection is gone. She almost looks healthy. I cant wait until the day I get to give her a good bath. I think she was a puppy mill dog, the vet thinks she is about 3 and that she has had 3 or 4 litters not including the litter she had to take out.  Some one loved her at some point because she is so sweet and just wants to be loved all the time. She seems to be crate trained  and she is house broken.

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