Well, she had stopped eating the chicken-rice mixture, and I was getting worried again. The vets office called (the nurse that helped when we took DeAnna in last week) to check on her and I gave her the update - she said she'd have one of the docs call me back. Dr. Vaughn called back a couple of hours later and we went over everything that was going on. She again suggested that we try baby food - any with turkey, chicken, beef, but preferably not with tomatoes in them because we didn't want to deal with potential reactions. If she didn't start eating with that, then they want us to bring her in for IV fluids and such. Of course, that is getting into the really expensive zone (hard to make decisions like this, but we always have to put our biological 2-legged children before the 4-legged ones), and hubby said he couldn't do that. So, last night, after DSs karate class, we went to Target on the way to Michael's. I bought 8 different jars of baby food to try with DeAnna.
The first was beef stew, which I let her sniff first - she tried to eat the lid!! I spooned it into her dish and mixed it with the rice. She ate nearly everything!! We have to give her antibiotics and she kept spitting it out last night - until I stuffed it into a chicken stick (Gerber's kid-friendly version of vienna sausages). She gulped it right down, despite having one of the cats in her face trying to get at it....lol.
So....she is getting a baby food chicken-rice mixture in the morning and a little bit at night along with 2 of the chichen or turkey stick, one of which has her antibiotic stuffed into it.
With luck, she will progress to the more chunky baby foods in a week or so....not sure what I'm going to do with the 40 lb bag of Beneful that I have in the garage, but at least she's eating something!!
Larisa
P.S. I was notified last night that I have an upcoming sewing job thanks to the friend that is doing my business work for me (flyers, logos, etc.) and a couple of future ones that are in the discussion stage....woohoo!!