This is NOT fair.
I have had my current fur baby for maybe 19 or 20- months (Humane Society rescue) and I am going to most likely lose her in the next 24 hours.
It all started about 4 weeks ago when her food intake started to drop. Not significantly at first but enough that I noticed.
Now I have had this happen before (as in periods of lower food intake) notably at the end of Sept. this year where she for some unknown reason stopped eating her dog food. She would eat almost anything else just NOT dog food. I tried several "Food additives" such as cubed ham that seemed to do the trick and she resumed her full rover hover eating habits. But about 4 weeks ago the food intake dropped again and no amount of ham or beef gravy would entice her to eat. AND she stopped eating EVREYTHING else. Plus her stool turned into sever Hersey' Squirts with mostly liquid and not much else. She did continue to consume water at her regular rate.
So off to the vet's office 2+ weeks ago. Nothing obvious to the vet they gave me antibiotics and probiotics to try and reset her gut bacteria. We also had to force feed her a bland diet out of a can. Between me and my daughter we have been feeding her twice a day. With little progress we go back to the vet. Tthey did blood and urine workup and all was REALLY normal. They gave me an appatite stimulant. 3 or 4 days and not much progress.
She still has not come around and is getting really lethargic and weak with the Hersey's Squirts. Consulted with the Vet again today, they are still not sure ans suggested some steroids that I had left over from this summer when she got a sever skin allergy attack.
Tomorrow is decision day and it does not look good.
I do not want to lose another one DAMN IT.
I have had my current fur baby for maybe 19 or 20- months (Humane Society rescue) and I am going to most likely lose her in the next 24 hours.
It all started about 4 weeks ago when her food intake started to drop. Not significantly at first but enough that I noticed.
Now I have had this happen before (as in periods of lower food intake) notably at the end of Sept. this year where she for some unknown reason stopped eating her dog food. She would eat almost anything else just NOT dog food. I tried several "Food additives" such as cubed ham that seemed to do the trick and she resumed her full rover hover eating habits. But about 4 weeks ago the food intake dropped again and no amount of ham or beef gravy would entice her to eat. AND she stopped eating EVREYTHING else. Plus her stool turned into sever Hersey' Squirts with mostly liquid and not much else. She did continue to consume water at her regular rate.
So off to the vet's office 2+ weeks ago. Nothing obvious to the vet they gave me antibiotics and probiotics to try and reset her gut bacteria. We also had to force feed her a bland diet out of a can. Between me and my daughter we have been feeding her twice a day. With little progress we go back to the vet. Tthey did blood and urine workup and all was REALLY normal. They gave me an appatite stimulant. 3 or 4 days and not much progress.
She still has not come around and is getting really lethargic and weak with the Hersey's Squirts. Consulted with the Vet again today, they are still not sure ans suggested some steroids that I had left over from this summer when she got a sever skin allergy attack.
Tomorrow is decision day and it does not look good.
I do not want to lose another one DAMN IT.
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