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Health / Re: ACK I think my chinnie is SICK!
« on: January 14, 2007, 10:58:32 AM »
UPDATE: I couldnt get the mixture of the homemade CC into powder so I kept blending it and blending it, sifting sticks out, blending some more, and then I found out that when its on very high speed in the blender everything thats a fine powder flies to the top at the lid. So I blend it for 10 seconds, opened it slowly, tapped all the powder that accumulated on the lid, repeat, and after about 5 times I had enough powder to make a mixture. So I mixed it with pedialyte until it was thin enough to suck up in a syringe and was feeding it to him. At first he was hesitant trying to jump out of my hands and everything, but I kept talking to him telling him I was trying to help him and that he is going to be ok he needs to eat, and after about a minute he just sat in front of me on my desk with his little paws up on my one hand and I had the syringe in the other and he took about a good 10cc's of mixture from me that way. He was very patient and kept letting me squirt a little on his bottom lip he would eat it off, and then repeat. Even when he got messy he would let me wipe it off his chin and continue. Then after about 10cc's he started squirming and trying to jump away and run off so I took that as a hint that he had enough. While I had him with me for about 5 minutes I guess it was he pooped twice, so I'm glad for that he's not too empty - not enough to stop passing stool. So I will try to do this probably once an hour and then this afternoon around 5 weigh him again and see if he is doing any better. In two days he lost 20 grams, and Im hoping that he turns around now that we made a breakthrough with feeding, and he is on his medicine for 24 hours now. He will eat a piece of hay or a pellet here and there, but nothing like his appetite was before he was feeling bad.
Thank you Jo Ann for ALL your help, I fear he might not have come through this without your guidance. I'm feeling much better now that I got food into him and hope that he continues to progress in the right direction.
I will update again later after weighing around 5!
Jacqui
Thank you Jo Ann for ALL your help, I fear he might not have come through this without your guidance. I'm feeling much better now that I got food into him and hope that he continues to progress in the right direction.
I will update again later after weighing around 5!
Jacqui
And, I hope I don't sound selfish here, but I have a high-quality pedigree breeding pair coming in this weekend, and I don't want to give up their space :-[
