Just for an update, it's about four days later now, so Nikko has had four days worth of his meds (one he's supposed to take for 5 days, the other for 10). His poops haven't really gotten any more solid, and some of them are even less solid than before the meds. Yesterday, he barely ate or drank at all, so this morning I made him some chicken broth, boiled chicken and plain white rice, which I mixed all together with some mushed up kibble. He ate it! Then drank some water too!!! And then he did some pooping, and a bunch more peeing in the following hours, which is great because he hadn't been eating enough before to have much to poo or pee out.
But then about three hours later, we had a scare. He started shaking while laying in my lap, and whining quietly, and breathing funny, and barely being able to stay awake. He refused any food or water, even the fake maple syrup. We panicked, and I was ready to drive the hour to our nearest animal emergency room. But my DH said wait, let's see if he his tummy is just hurting, let's see if he needs to poop.
Well, that was it I guess... we took him out and he peed a big pee and pooped a super messy gaseous soft-serve poop. After I got done bathing him, he happily sat down and started gnawing on a baby carrot. Then he ate a little chicken and rice. Now he's sleeping peacefully.
Whew! We have a regular vet appointment tomorrow, hopefully he can stay well enough until then. *Sigh* I'll post what the vet says about all this craziness tomorrow probably. With every day that goes by, I'm getting angrier and angrier with the woman who sold him to us. :-(
Lauren & Nikko |