twistedtiggerz69
Mama Doe
Lillabelle has stopped eating. Yesterday she was fast breathing and didn't show any interest in her tea so we took her to the vets at 9pm yesterday. We have a 24 hour vet which is fantastic for us. They were very kind letting us go through the insurance and to pay them the £50 excess tomorrow.
I told the vet about the moulting of both of them. The vet felt her tummy and said he felt she would be eating by tomorrow. He gave her fluids, metaclopramide and loxicom for cats at quite a low dose I thought but I know I got muddled last time about the dosage for them. He gave her dosage for a 5 kg weight as per the syringe of 0.5kg/mls. The vet's x-ray machine is broken so he can't x-ray her to see if she has a blocked tummy.
I don't know much about gut stasis except where Chief has had it before twice. Since we got her home we have tried getting her to eat waving food in front of her nose. We have tried greens, curly kale, fresh coriander, fresh dill, readigrass and Timothy hay and she just ignores us. She did eat a leaf of spring greens early hours of morning so we got some sleep early this morning after thinking she was starting to eat but when we woke at 11am she wasn't eating again. We rang the vets to ask if we could syringe feed her and they said to do that.
We gave her Science Selective pellets mushed up and added water to make a thick fluid drink. We don't have Critical Care here but the vets is getting some in tomorrow so we can change to that then. She seemed to be just taking it in her mouth and then spitting it out. We gave her the loxicom as well but it is such a small amount. I thought they were supposed to have the dog Loxicom? We only had time for one syringe feed before taking her back to the vets today.
We had another appointment at the vets at 3.30pm and I was surprised that the vet did didn't get her out the carrier. He just gave her metaclopramide again via injection plus more loxicom. I raised the issue of whether she had enough painkillers as she normally was given the dog loxicom and he said he would give her that instead and then at the last moment said we shou AQAld just increase the dosage to 7.5 kgs as on the syringe but still use the cat Loxicom.
We got home at 4.30 pm and we are leaving her for a while to recover from going to the vets then we are going to syringe feed her every hour approx to get her to eat. Would that be too often? When we got home she just kept drinking and drinking water for ages so she is dehydrated as well I guess.
When we syringe fed her she was so good and didn't bite us or wriggle. Just so unusual for her to not be feisty and difficult to be picked up which worries me that she is too weak to argue with us. I feel that it's my fault as the fur could be blocking her stomach. We really don't know what to do. In know nobody on RU can give vet advice but I just wondered if everybun thinks that is a low dose of painkillers or not? I have loxicom dog here. When Lillabelle got spayed she was given 1.6mls of dog loxicom once daily. We are given her the equivalent for 5 kgs twice a day.
Her output is very low. She did pass a cecal poop early this morning but she refused to eat it when my OH presented it to her. Otherwise no poops. She jumped in to the litter tray and was there a while but no poops and we couldn't find any wee output either. We have put both the buns into an 8 panel enclosure in our bedroom so we can see her better. Otherwise she hides under the bed so it is impossible to see if she eats/drinks.
Could you please send her some healing vibes. She just sits in a crouch position hardly moving although she did give Chief some head licks earlier. Is there anything else we could try please?
I told the vet about the moulting of both of them. The vet felt her tummy and said he felt she would be eating by tomorrow. He gave her fluids, metaclopramide and loxicom for cats at quite a low dose I thought but I know I got muddled last time about the dosage for them. He gave her dosage for a 5 kg weight as per the syringe of 0.5kg/mls. The vet's x-ray machine is broken so he can't x-ray her to see if she has a blocked tummy.
I don't know much about gut stasis except where Chief has had it before twice. Since we got her home we have tried getting her to eat waving food in front of her nose. We have tried greens, curly kale, fresh coriander, fresh dill, readigrass and Timothy hay and she just ignores us. She did eat a leaf of spring greens early hours of morning so we got some sleep early this morning after thinking she was starting to eat but when we woke at 11am she wasn't eating again. We rang the vets to ask if we could syringe feed her and they said to do that.
We gave her Science Selective pellets mushed up and added water to make a thick fluid drink. We don't have Critical Care here but the vets is getting some in tomorrow so we can change to that then. She seemed to be just taking it in her mouth and then spitting it out. We gave her the loxicom as well but it is such a small amount. I thought they were supposed to have the dog Loxicom? We only had time for one syringe feed before taking her back to the vets today.
We had another appointment at the vets at 3.30pm and I was surprised that the vet did didn't get her out the carrier. He just gave her metaclopramide again via injection plus more loxicom. I raised the issue of whether she had enough painkillers as she normally was given the dog loxicom and he said he would give her that instead and then at the last moment said we shou AQAld just increase the dosage to 7.5 kgs as on the syringe but still use the cat Loxicom.
We got home at 4.30 pm and we are leaving her for a while to recover from going to the vets then we are going to syringe feed her every hour approx to get her to eat. Would that be too often? When we got home she just kept drinking and drinking water for ages so she is dehydrated as well I guess.
When we syringe fed her she was so good and didn't bite us or wriggle. Just so unusual for her to not be feisty and difficult to be picked up which worries me that she is too weak to argue with us. I feel that it's my fault as the fur could be blocking her stomach. We really don't know what to do. In know nobody on RU can give vet advice but I just wondered if everybun thinks that is a low dose of painkillers or not? I have loxicom dog here. When Lillabelle got spayed she was given 1.6mls of dog loxicom once daily. We are given her the equivalent for 5 kgs twice a day.
Her output is very low. She did pass a cecal poop early this morning but she refused to eat it when my OH presented it to her. Otherwise no poops. She jumped in to the litter tray and was there a while but no poops and we couldn't find any wee output either. We have put both the buns into an 8 panel enclosure in our bedroom so we can see her better. Otherwise she hides under the bed so it is impossible to see if she eats/drinks.
Could you please send her some healing vibes. She just sits in a crouch position hardly moving although she did give Chief some head licks earlier. Is there anything else we could try please?
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