When you take in a sample do they JUST do a float or do they actually look at it under a microscope?
Billy woke me up this morning throwing up. But what REALLY horrified me was that he threw up FOOD and hadn't eaten in over 12 hours!! YIPE.
So I raced him to the vet this morning and the vet was immediately as concerned as I was (throwing up undigested food after 12 hours is a big huge BAD sign of stuff like renal failure) so I was freaking out to be honest.
But ... he took a fecal first thing and not only floated it but looked at it under a microscope. AND .. he found grain mites!!
Now some dogs are bothered, some aren't -- but bottom line in Billy's case they made his intestinal tract so irritated that it didn't want to accept stuff from the stomach -- so food stayed in the stomach WAY too long (excessive digestive acids and that made him SICK).
I'm NOT NOT NOT sayig Gibby has this -- my point is do they actually LOOK at it to see if they can identify things or just doing a passing float to see if there is something typical?
It's just that some vets never do that kind of stuff -- and sometimes that's what it takes to identify something like this that plagues a dog. (and yeah - when we went to the car, Billy took a big dump and the first half was 'normal' and the second half was diarreha. All SORTS of things can cause diarreha).
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Keller
