Thanks for the well-wishes guys. We're feeding him a combination of science diet A/D wet, with equal parts nutri-cal and Karo syrup, at the advice of the vet. He's getting roughly 3cc every 2.5 hours, to keep his sugar up, and we're backing off the sub-q fluids to 100cc a day, while trying to reintegrate fluids orally by alternating between water and pedialyte. The poor guy absolutely despises the force feeding by syringe, but won't eat on his own. I feel like he's not safe enough yet for us to stop the force feeding and wait until he gets hungry on his own, because it will undo any glucose stability we've created for him and start the hypoglycemic snowball effect all over again.
We weren't sure where he got the infection from because we'd only had him 24 hours before he got sick, but the couple we bought him from turned out to be breeders moonlighting, which I would have turned away from had I not already fallen in love with him. Their home wasnt very clean and we noticed he had fleas when we got him, so there's no telling what he was exposed to. |