Hi I am new to this. On tuesday I bougt a springer spaniel puppy we called Frankie after my father (deceased). We have since discovered him to be very poorly and today he became an in patient at the pdsa.
He was the runt of the litter and is less than half the size of the others.| I took him home and bought some puppy milk from the pet shop and some james well ebloved puppy kibble .
The breeder gave me a tin of morrrison puppy food but had until then he had gave him chum.
He developed the runs and cried alot, further investigation revealed last week he had an anti biotic injection and was given lifeaid medicine from a vet.Which I was unaware of when I bought him.
Today he had some blood in his stools and started wheezing so I took him pdsa who admitted him and put him on a drip and gave him some more antibiotic, he is in over night I am so worried he won't pull through
. What do you think this could be , I know changing food did not help his little tummy.
He is so small and has very little body weight, he has been wormed on monday.please has anyone been through this thanks

Poor Frankie and poor you.

Puppies can be prone to a lot of different illnesses and I doubt he would be poorly to this degree just from changing his food. There are so many things that could be wrong it is not easy (or even helpful) to speculate on the internet but he is in the best place.

Having him on a drip and giving him antibiotics are going to give him the best chance to fight whatever is wrong and once he is stable hopefully they will get a clearer idea what is causing his problems.

Will keep you in my thoughts and hope he has a good night and you have more positive news in the morning.

To be brutally honest, it sounds as if your pup was ill before you brought him home. Have you spoken to his 'breeder'?

thank you both of you, yes spoke to breeder who said he took him to the vet last thursday and the vet gave him an antibi,otic injection but was not sure why, my friend feels awful (she is not the breeder ,her dog is frankies dad) As far as we were concerned the problem was low body weight due to not feeding well from mum and thats all.
The pdsa gave it 50/50 . thats if Frankie make sit through tonight, I have to ring up at 11 tomorrow morning.

sorry if posted in wrong bit should of put this under health, I see there is abug going around in cornwall and thats where I am , and the puppy came from.

Fingers and paws crossed for Frankie

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Welcome to the site Tracy and Frankie, Im really sorry its not under more positive circumstances.

Sending positive thoughts to little Frankie and praying that you get some good news in the morning

oh poor you, and poor little Frankie - will check back for hopefully, good news in the morning

Pol

Poor thing, hoping for good news in the morning for you.

Oh poor Frankie, hugs from us, and all our best for a speedy recovery! He's in the best place for now, hoping you get good news in the morning!

Hi morning everyone , no phone calls in the night which is good news as they said they would ring if anything happened. Off to work now will be back on much later probbably about 2100 long day ahead thanks for kind words everyone. I really hope there is some improvement when I ring them at 11 praying they don't ring me first.

Good luck today.....hope things are improving for you.
Many of us will be offline from later today at a ST event, but we will be thinking of you

Good luck, hope Frankie makes a good improvement today, sending hugs to you all

thinking of you today and Frankie

hope to hear from you later with some good news

It would tug on the old heart strings but I’d seriously consider returning the pup to the breeder.

Hope pups feeling better today.

Sending lots of get well wishes, please let us know how he gets on. I'm not off to the fling, so I'll be online later waiting for your news.
Sue