Post by angelfish on Dec 23, 2010 13:48:15 GMT -5
Thank you all so much for your replies.
As I said in the other post, I had given her some pumpkin last night. This morning I was ecstatic to see.... poop! It was green and gloppy and had in it *sigh* the cotton batting from the puppy pad. So I guess that is what she got into after all.
She went to the vet this morning along with her stool sample. He found that her abdomen is still a little tender in a spot. He told me to watch her stool for the next 24 hours and if she stops going or is straining to call back tomorrow.
As for the meds, I'm still at a loss. One of the antibiotics she absolutely abhors! It's only .5 of a cc but it just makes her gag something awful. I put her down today and she was pawing at her mouth, trying to spit it up. Just miserable. The other one she doesn't like but she tolerates it decently. It doesn't make her gag but she does try to wipe it away by rubbing her face on the ground.
She is starting to eat again. She ate mush last night and she was eating hard food again this morning.
I'm gonna try making some soup to see if I can coax all of them into eating some raw. I'm still perusing the nutrition section but I'm a little squeamish about serving mice for dinner (they're so darn cute!). All our meat is grass-fed, pastured stuff so I'm sure I can turn out regular meat into a meal for them. As soon as I get them off that darn Meow Mix (I read the ingredients last night, that stuff is basically corn chips!).
Oh yeah, and our vet advocates a raw diet for the little furballs so I'm very pleased with him. (Not so pleased with the emergency vet though, our vet was not pleased that they didn't even give us any kind of softener or laxative.)
They also gave me stool softener (lactolose) to give her which she absolutely does not like. She got a little bit and I'm going to try thinning it out with water and using a syringe for her next dose tonight. He also said to continue the pumpkin and the antibiotics.
The problem I am having is that she is an extremely picky eater. She's not in love with ferrevite or ferretone and doesn't care for Nutri-cal. She seems to like the pumpkin so after a med I give her a bit of pumpkin to help with the nasty taste.
As I said in the other post, I had given her some pumpkin last night. This morning I was ecstatic to see.... poop! It was green and gloppy and had in it *sigh* the cotton batting from the puppy pad. So I guess that is what she got into after all.
She went to the vet this morning along with her stool sample. He found that her abdomen is still a little tender in a spot. He told me to watch her stool for the next 24 hours and if she stops going or is straining to call back tomorrow.
As for the meds, I'm still at a loss. One of the antibiotics she absolutely abhors! It's only .5 of a cc but it just makes her gag something awful. I put her down today and she was pawing at her mouth, trying to spit it up. Just miserable. The other one she doesn't like but she tolerates it decently. It doesn't make her gag but she does try to wipe it away by rubbing her face on the ground.
She is starting to eat again. She ate mush last night and she was eating hard food again this morning.
I'm gonna try making some soup to see if I can coax all of them into eating some raw. I'm still perusing the nutrition section but I'm a little squeamish about serving mice for dinner (they're so darn cute!). All our meat is grass-fed, pastured stuff so I'm sure I can turn out regular meat into a meal for them. As soon as I get them off that darn Meow Mix (I read the ingredients last night, that stuff is basically corn chips!).
Oh yeah, and our vet advocates a raw diet for the little furballs so I'm very pleased with him. (Not so pleased with the emergency vet though, our vet was not pleased that they didn't even give us any kind of softener or laxative.)
They also gave me stool softener (lactolose) to give her which she absolutely does not like. She got a little bit and I'm going to try thinning it out with water and using a syringe for her next dose tonight. He also said to continue the pumpkin and the antibiotics.
The problem I am having is that she is an extremely picky eater. She's not in love with ferrevite or ferretone and doesn't care for Nutri-cal. She seems to like the pumpkin so after a med I give her a bit of pumpkin to help with the nasty taste.