Re: My Vet
I want to thank everyone for their very kind thoughts and good wishes for my furry Mups. I am sure sending collective good thoughts into the ether helps.
I can now give you a progress report.
She is a minx for taking pills of any sort, she always has been.
She is one of those who is highly suspicious of anything different and sniffs and examines things very carefully.
Yesterday I broke her tablet into quarters and hid the tiny segments in little bits of grated cheese rolled into tiny balls (she is partial to a bit of cheese). It worked.
Today she was having none of it though. She wasnt going to be fooled twice!
So after trying to hide them in pieces of cooked chicken, then small bits of lamb, then small bits of cream cheese - all to no avail - eventually she decided to eat them mixed in her favourite honey yoghurt.
I wouldn't normally pander to their demands so much, but she had lost all interest in food, and has got such a bag of bones, that I do all but write a menu for her now!
She had not been breathing well, and kept doing really huge, voilent sneezes the last week or so, sometimes sneezing so hard she would bang her face on the floor. This evening however, I have noticed her breathing is easier, and when I started to get the other dogs tea, she actually got out of bed and came over to ask for hers!!
She ate a decent amount of cooked chicken then, and a small biscuit treat for pud.
A heck of an improvement, though I am frightened of getting too carried away. . .
She has been walking about more today too. Previously she was spending about 22 hrs a day in bed, mostly in a deep sleep, but today she went poddling out in the garden a couple of times, and even went to inspect a chap who was doing a job for me. She would have shown no interest in doing this a few days back.
This won't sound much to some, but it was a noticeable improvement that she was showing a little more interest in the outside world again.
She is sound asleep next to my legs as I write, and she is not snuffling or wheezing at all. Her ulcers do not look quite so inflamed as they were a few days back either.
I know pills can't make her young again, but she is improving slowly, and at the moment that is all I am praying for.
Thank you once again lovely people, for your kind thoughts and understanding. x x x