Baby Teacup Chihuahua sick - retching, listless, sleepy after shots and flea treatment

There is no such thing as a "teacup Chihuahua", but I'm leaving that phrase in the title because that's how I get all my views. This so-called "teacup" turned out to be HUGE and FAT as an adult dog, so don't believe the nonsense about "teacups". They are just runts, but they could easily grow up to be normal sized.
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This is my 9 week old female Chihuahua. She's only 1 pound and 2 oz and I bought her one week ago. I took her to the vet on 05/20 and she was diagnosed as having parasites and worms. The vet gave her a LOT of medicines and treatments. Here is the rundown of all the different meds.

The vet gave her a shot of Pyrantel Pamoate for pinworms. The invoice says "Qty 2 - Pyrantel Pamoate (Strongid).

He also gave her a partially used bottle of Albon 5% oral medication for parasites, which I was to continue giving to her until it ran out. She has taken the medicine for 5 days now. I've read online that 5 days is the normal length of treatment so I am not giving her any more of it. I read online that you are supposed to shake the Albon very well before using it. The vet did not tell me that. He also didn't bother to tell me about any side effects that could occur, although there are several.

He also gave me a small tube of Advantage Dog flea treatment (ointment) that I was instructed to rub between her shoulder blades. The tube says that it is for dogs under 10 lbs. I asked him if I should use the whole tube considering she is only 1 lb. He said yes. Looking back, I see that I should have used my own common sense and intuition. Obviously you don't need the same amount of medicine for a 1 lb puppy as you would need for a puppy 10 times her size. I'm angry that they would hurt her this way and not care.

I applied the flea treatment (poison) on 05/23. After I put the medicine on her, it left a nasty glob of greasiness on her coat, so I looked online to see how long I had to leave it before I could take it off. (Of course, I called the vet to ask them but they didn't answer and did not return my call, even though they were still open.) What I found online shocked me. Flea treatments are PESTICIDES and can be very harmful to dogs. If you apply a pesticide to your lawn (which I would urge you not to do) the bottle clearly tells you NOT to allow your pets or children to walk on the lawn for a certain length of time because the POISON can harm or kill them. So why then would a vet advise you to put a similar poison directly on your puppy's coat? Maybe because he only cares about money and not you or your puppy. It's a possibility.

If he cared about my tiny, adorable, 1 lb puppy, I doubt he would fill her with as many poisons as he could in such a short amount of time.

I really don't think he cares at all about Lil' Nibbles. She's only 1 pound and it doesn't seem like he's taking that into account when prescribing meds to her.

The same day (Friday) that I put the flea treatment on her, she ate some grass outside. That evening is when she started retching and she has continued doing this all weekend. It is now Monday and she's been sleeping a lot and is still retching some, although thankfully not nearly as much.

While reading the warnings about flea treatments, I also found many people who warned that you must be careful with choosing a veternarian because many of them are only interested in making money and they would rather fill your pet full of unneeded poisons and make a quick buck than to do what is best for your pet. I already knew that was the case with human doctors, which I why I never go to them anymore, but I never suspected that the people that we trust to care for our pets might be the same way. The medical industry is such a sad, sorry place.

I'm wary of going back to the vet since I believe that may be what caused the sickness in the first place. I used to have dogs when I was a kid and we never took them to the vet and they didn't get sick. I'm really starting to think that the vet CAUSES sickness instead of preventing it.

Update: Little Nibbles healed up from her sickness. I ended up finding a new home for her, but I want to leave this video up in case anyone else has a similar problem with their puppy. I believe her illness was caused by the medications she was given. Please do your own research into each medicine that your vet prescribes. Do what you feel is right. Do not blindly follow the orders of someone who may not have your pet's best interest at heart.

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Pets & Animals

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• teacup
• chihuahua
• sick
• retching
• gagging
• albon
• advantage
• flea
• treatment
• pyrantel
• pamoate

[SheWolfDanielle]

As with doctors, not all vets are ideal. Vets should be willing to give you the package the medicine came in so you can have the instructions. It's always a good idea to shake any medicine, too. It can't hurt.

Also, flea treatments from reputable (NOT FROM WALMART) are safe WHEN USED CORRECTLY. It basically has to be a pesticide to kill fleas: it's only a problem when the dog is too young (just like how babies can't take certain medicines).

[7heather]

@SheWolfDanielle Speaking of flea treatments from Walmart... I heard that Frontline's patent expired and now they are selling the same active ingredient under the name Pet Armor Plus at where else but WALMART! It's only like $10, compared to the $50 treatments under the Frontline brand name. I'm glad that racket finally ended. Drug companies are so greedy and selfish.

[7heather]

@Demonickitten666 And btw, I'm not the same Heather as your neighbor. I wouldn't live next to an animal hoarder (or "rescuer" or whatever.) Too many animals in one place is dirty, smelly, and loud. Not at YOUR HOUSE, I'm sure, but just everyone else's home where there are more pets than normal (to the point where someone calls the RSPCA on them). Even just 3 or 4 pets in a home is something I can't tolerate. If I WAS your neighbor though I'd report you. Animal hoarders should live on a farm.

[7heather]

@Demonickitten666 That's cool "DemonicKitten" (lol). I hope everything works out well for you and your pets. It's really concerning when someone has a lot of animals. A big reason that it's a problem is that spaying and neutering is expensive so most animal hoarders can't afford to do it for all of their pets. The pets end up breeding out of control and that's a big reason why so many animals have to be killed every day at the pound. It's the EXCESS of animals that create a problem.

[Demonickitten666]

@7heather Funny that your youtube name is 7HEATHER because my neighbour of that name called the RSPCA thinking that I have 2 many pets and dont look after them even though she's never seen them.

Funny. The RSPCA found nothing wrong. The cages are spotless, trays cleaned. Fed, watered etc regulary... perfectly happy pets. Some people dont know how to look after pets. It has NOTHING to do with the amount of pets making u a bad owner, only the time and money you have available for them.

[7heather]

@SiobhanCohen Thanks for your comment. I removed the remark about autism.

[7heather]

@Demonickitten666 So terribly sorry to have offended you. I've seen people with "many animals" on a show called Animal Hoarders and every one of those people truly believe they are doing what's best for their pets, but they're in complete denial about the fact that they are mistreating and neglecting their pets. Most of them are sick, and the houses are disgusting. Now I'm sure that YOU aren't like that, but the truth is you wouldn't be able to admit it if you were. None of the hoarders can.

[7heather]

@lordnhoj Thank you for your comment. I clarified that "teacups" are runts in the description. It was something I had added to my other video a long time ago but apparently forgot to add to this one. And I removed the part about autism since I also heard the updated news about it several months ago, but I forgot that I had mentioned that on this video, so thanks for letting me know. :)

[7heather]

@chatte99 Thanks for reminding me that the autism stuff was in there. I took it out. I've heard the updated research about it and I agree with you. Of course, you had to go out of your way to act like a jerk about it ("Stop propagating lies."), but whatever, I guess you could have acted much more. So many YouTubers don't have even a shred of common decency. It's like they've been locked away their entire lives and never learned how to get along with people. Anyway, thanks for your comment.

[Demonickitten666]

@7heather load of f*cking bollocks.... I wanted a dog FREE to a good home because I have many animals and love them all, yet I got them all FREE (well, the cats anyway). You might be some selfish person who couldnt be arsed (this is according to your comment) to look after a dog so sold it to family, or cant be arsed to look after something thats given to you..but that doesnt mean other people will mistreat and animal or not love it just because its free..God help your age. You sound 14yrs old

[chatte99]

There are exactly ZERO links between vaccinations and autism...but if you learned information from more places than online, you would know that. Seriously, take that part out of your info section, as you're just spreading ignorant urban legends. The researcher who came up with that hypothesis is now being prosecuted because he skewed his research (he only used seven subjects in his experiment) and he lied in his results.  Stop propagating lies.