Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Day 5, Not a Great Day for Sandi

The last few days, I've gotten Sandi to eat pretty regularly and some real solid stuff.  We're focusing on high protein.  

Also started giving her some fish oil/vitamin E mix by syringe.  About 8-10ml each day.  And some mint tea with ginseng and honey (very diluted), 20ml in the morning, 20ml at noon and 20ml in the evening.  Also, as much chicken broth by syringe she can muster.

Deli turkey and Hills cat food (she used to love eating Duncans food).  It seems if I pile the turkey on the edge of the bowl, she would move from there to the cat food.

Today, she's just not eating that much.
Tried raw and cooked hamburger.
A few bites of turkey is all she had this morning.
The turkey/cat food trick is not working today.

She swallows well.  Her appetite is not there I think, so I'm syringe feeding pretty much just for the hydration.

Tomorrow is my appointment with Dr. Robert Woods DVM.

He is a holistic vet, the one closest to us, associated (loosely I think) with the All Care Center.

So more decisions tomorrow.

I've set up sleeping areas all over the downstairs, but her favorite place is in the garage which is dark and cool.  Unless I'm in the house, she will always be found in the garage on the soft sleeping bag I laid out for her.

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