Hi!
I’ve posted before about betsy and her abscesses.
Abscess seems to be greatly improved, she went to the vets last week for more meds. As there is still swelling the vet gave us an additional 21 days of medicine to try and clear as much as possible as this is the second abscess in the same place.
So she has had metacam twice a day which the vet has told us to lower to once a day, then after a week every other day to get her off it. I don’t think she needs it, she is pretty lively and active and the sore skin seems to have healed over from what I can see (she hates handling)
The metacam isn’t a problem, she likes that and licks it out the tube.
She hates the baytril. She is obviously back to her usual stubborn self as she would take it a few days ago. She now fights, bites the towel I have her wrapped in quite viciously and throws the syring if she can get hold of it. It takes 2 of us to give her medicine. I hold her and my husband puts the medicine in. She is no longer getting the full dose as some of it gets spat out, but we still try twice a day.
How can I give it to her? She won’t take treats from my hand so I can’t disguise it that way. Bertie is likely to eat some if I put it in her food. I would do with something just to make it taste nicer. She has to have quite a lot so it’s usually 3 squirts of the syring to get it in to her! Not sure I’m going to be able to manage another 2 weeks. I might lose a finger. The towel I use is now full of holes!
I’ve posted before about betsy and her abscesses.
Abscess seems to be greatly improved, she went to the vets last week for more meds. As there is still swelling the vet gave us an additional 21 days of medicine to try and clear as much as possible as this is the second abscess in the same place.
So she has had metacam twice a day which the vet has told us to lower to once a day, then after a week every other day to get her off it. I don’t think she needs it, she is pretty lively and active and the sore skin seems to have healed over from what I can see (she hates handling)
The metacam isn’t a problem, she likes that and licks it out the tube.
She hates the baytril. She is obviously back to her usual stubborn self as she would take it a few days ago. She now fights, bites the towel I have her wrapped in quite viciously and throws the syring if she can get hold of it. It takes 2 of us to give her medicine. I hold her and my husband puts the medicine in. She is no longer getting the full dose as some of it gets spat out, but we still try twice a day.
How can I give it to her? She won’t take treats from my hand so I can’t disguise it that way. Bertie is likely to eat some if I put it in her food. I would do with something just to make it taste nicer. She has to have quite a lot so it’s usually 3 squirts of the syring to get it in to her! Not sure I’m going to be able to manage another 2 weeks. I might lose a finger. The towel I use is now full of holes!
