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Originally Posted by joyce evans  Just reading this thread. I don't mean to sound rude or anything but your pup might be better off recovering at the Vets office. To wait so long to get your pup to a vet and to get food down this pup sounds like you do not have a lot of experience dealing with sick animals. Some people just don't and that's all ok until it comes down to a sick pup like yours. If she is not eating regular by now than there is a problem somewhere! To not see that this was an emergency right away is hard for me to wrap my brain around. I pray she is better and eating normally today! |
If this is feasable at all, this is best case scenerio. This rehab at home requires an enormous amount of time dedicated to this task. Taking her fever is REALLY important.....getting food down this baby is critical, as is keeping her hydrated....you REALLY need to get at LEAST an ounce of water/pedialyte into this baby, every hour or so......she really needs to be on IV therapy, not only for hydration, but to stabilize her electrolytes, including maintaining her glucose levels. Stress causes their sugars to go down....this baby is definately stressed.....Problem is, if your vet does not have staff on site overnight, it isnt going to be a good thing to leave her overnight.
If this baby is not much, much better today, you need to see if your vet can take her in during the day, for hydration and monitoring her status.....you MUST feed this baby that baby food....she needs at least 4-5 jars per day....put her on a feeding schedule like 9am-1pm-5pm-9pm-1am........you need to syringe that into her mouth, 1cc at a time, until you have fed her the entire jar...she MUST have the calories in order for her to heal....Your vet can inject fluid under her skin, to keep her hydrated....see if at the very least, you can take her in and have him do that for you, to help keep her hydrated so you dont run into kidney issues....If she starts getting to sleepy/drowsy, dont give her the pain medication....she is going to be easy to overdose with everything else that is going on with her.....What you are doing now, involves a lot of assessment skills.....I think you may need experienced help with this....involve your vet in this.....praying for you and this baby.....how is she doing this am? What is her temp?