Yeah Daisy! Daisy hasn't ate by her free will for eleven days. She ate a whole can of food this morning AND drank water. This is huge. She must be feeling better.
Every morning we give her eight humongous pills. She is very good about hiding the pill in her jowls until you not looking and then spitting them out the little skunk. She also acts like a toddler and turns her head all around so you can't get to her mouth. I've had to get creative so she'll even let me near her. I've tried frying up some bacon and rolling the pills in the grease, and smothering them in cheeze wiz. I finally had to resort to just pushing them down her throat and then holding her mouth shut for a minute until she swallows.
She also get 500cc of fluid pumped under her skin morning and night. This causes two large bumps under her skin while the fluid collects. We are basically giving her implants, and while I shouldn't admit it, I'm a little jealous.
We are off to Moab for the Memorial Day weekend and taking both dogs. This is the start to our camping season and it should be interesting with two dogs. We've only had Diesel up until now.
Wish us luck!
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Poor Daisy! Rosie had to have some IV fluids once in her back, looked like the Hunchback of Notre Dame, so I can only imagine what 2 bags looks like! When it is pill time we have learned the trick of peanut butter. I just dip the pill in peanut butter, just a teeny tiny bit on the end of it and she goes crazy. To get her started, we dipped tiny (pill sized) pieces of bread, like 5 of them. I gave her 2 pieces of peanut butter bread, then the pill, then 2 more peanut butter bread. She loved the first 2, could see there were more and just kept wolfing them down. Didn't even realize they was a pill in there. Now she ONLY gets peanut butter if there is a pill in it, so she thinks it is the greatest treat ever! Rosie sends a snort and hopes Daisy feels better soon.
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