Sasha came home from the vet with 3 MUST FOLLOW insrtuctions. Give liquid anti-inflamatory twice daily, give antibiotic pill once daily, feed only prescibed food.
Yesterday went well. I put the meat flavored pill in with his dry prescription food. He didn't notice and ate it. The anti-inflamatory liquid, so far, tastes good to him and he's licking it off my finger. He has decided he would rather starve than eat the food.
I put the pill in his prescription food again today. He refused to eat any of it. I put it in with some of his old food (against doctor orders). He ate the food but spit the pill back out several times. We then force fed him the pill. It is always a fight with him. He is strong, fast, and determined.
All he has eaten today is the tbsp of his old food . Yesterday he ate very little of the prescription food. He seems somewhat hungry. I'm certain he would eat the old food but I'm trying to starve him into submission. If he is anything like I was as a child, I will lose this test of wills.
Other than these things and the fact that he is still passing blood (drops here and there) and bloody urine, he seems normal. He is playing fetch with me as I write this post.
I learned many tricks about feeding while I was trying to get him to eat canned (failure there). Looks like it is going to be the test of wills. He has already lost 15% of his body weight since this health ordeal started 7 weeks ago. Upside is his weight is about where it should be. He still has some belly fat.
Yesterday went well. I put the meat flavored pill in with his dry prescription food. He didn't notice and ate it. The anti-inflamatory liquid, so far, tastes good to him and he's licking it off my finger. He has decided he would rather starve than eat the food.
I put the pill in his prescription food again today. He refused to eat any of it. I put it in with some of his old food (against doctor orders). He ate the food but spit the pill back out several times. We then force fed him the pill. It is always a fight with him. He is strong, fast, and determined.
All he has eaten today is the tbsp of his old food . Yesterday he ate very little of the prescription food. He seems somewhat hungry. I'm certain he would eat the old food but I'm trying to starve him into submission. If he is anything like I was as a child, I will lose this test of wills.
Other than these things and the fact that he is still passing blood (drops here and there) and bloody urine, he seems normal. He is playing fetch with me as I write this post.
I learned many tricks about feeding while I was trying to get him to eat canned (failure there). Looks like it is going to be the test of wills. He has already lost 15% of his body weight since this health ordeal started 7 weeks ago. Upside is his weight is about where it should be. He still has some belly fat.