Parenting-Furkids

Queen Eva is rejecting all canned food but will eat cooked chicken (I roasted a chicken on Sunday) or her own cooked meals (pork with chicken and the broth) or raw, in small amounts.  She had a tiny formed single poop earlier, I found it when I came home for lunch. Formed but still very soft.

I can keep her hydrated with the fluids.

Things went haywire, she stopped eating and had diarrhea all day yesterday.  Sitting around in that crouched cramp.  I would say adding fat is not going to work for her, but at least she's cleaned out.

i tried to give fluids last night but she objected and disconnected the needle after only about 10 ml.  I think it wasn't warm enough. It's so cold here, even with the furnace running it just got chilled again from me taking it from the kitchen to the bathroom. No way to keep the fluid in the tube warm, usually I let it run into the sink before I start but I forgot that step.

I let her go 13 hours without food and this morning she is asking to eat, but I haven't fed her yet.

PS rejecting breakfast.  Gave her the fluids, went a lot better this time, and she allowed it. I kept it warm by leaving it in the basin and carrying it, in the basin of warm water, to the bathroom.

I told her what was going to happen, gave her the Burrowing Towel in case she wanted to tuck her head in (she did), remembered to check the temp and flow before starting, and while she complained a bit, she did not struggle and allowed me to give her 50 ml fluids.

EDIT after she washed the indignity off in front of her favorite hot air vent, she ate a little of her breakfast, but not much.

She had some more hard pieces in her poop overnight, including a marble. So this morning I added rather a  lot of fat to her raw meal, and gave her only half her s.boulardii. That did the trick, 10 hours later, she's finally gotten the rest of it out I think, and it was quite soft.

So now we're starting from square one again, and I'm hoping to manage it with the added fat going forward. 

One more thing, oh happy day, she's up to 6 pounds 14 ounces, which is her normal weight.

Thank you!

Well I made a hash of the Vitamin B-12 injection because I couldn't get the cap off the needle, and lost half the contents in my efforts.  No trouble getting the needle into her, that was easy, she didn't even notice. But she only got half the dose.

I'll talk to the tech and see what they can suggest, a different kind of cap maybe, or I don't know what, for the next two.

Queen Eva had a better poop in the middle of the night. Not sure if she's completely cleaned out or not, but I'm going to try upping her fat now, instead of relying on the lactulose, now that she's had a good poop.   It took 3 days of lactulose, 1 ml every 12 hours, to get her back to normal, now I'm going to try to maintain it with added fat to her one raw meal a day.

She was back up to 2 raw meals while she was coping with the reduced pred. But now that she's eating up the canned again without all that picking, I'll keep her on that mostly, since I have $560 of it sitting here. 

I just love seeing her tuck in and clean her dish in one sitting. I can't get enough of it. She's never eaten like this, ever.

Also, I'm hoping the GLM will help with the constipation too. With her arthritis and the spondylosis in her spine, it is likely causing her pain to squat or hold a squat too long. I've upped her to the therapeutic dose of GLM now. She's showing no signs of stomach upset from it, and she eats the meal with it dusted over right up. She seems to prefer it dusted on top rather than mixed in. Her wish is my command.