iliketobinky
fed up
hi everyone,i am brand new to the website and am absolutely desperate for advice.
i have two buns,both of them lionhead crosses.
over the past week or less,mabel [in my avatar] stopped eating and was lay down looking lethargic so i took her to the PDSA vets [bare in mind im in the UK] out of hours service and she was diagnosed with both dental spurs and gastric stasis.
she had an operation to remove the dental spurs but the stasis remains and ive been feeding her recovery syringe feed,and liquid parafin prescribed by the vets to help with her bowels,,the vet also prescribed an anti biotic although im not sure what that will do for her issue.
the problem is she wont swallow the liquid feed so it just spurts back out, i think a little is getting down each time but thats it.
i found out through experimentation that she will wolf down fennel,so i have been to my dads allotment to raid his fennel and i hand feed her some every couple of hours,i cant leave it on the floor for her as binky will eat it off her.
i am just wondering how i can get my baby girl to eat food other than fennel, i dont want her to die,i have classic autism and mild intelectual disability and mabel is my best friend.
i have two buns,both of them lionhead crosses.
over the past week or less,mabel [in my avatar] stopped eating and was lay down looking lethargic so i took her to the PDSA vets [bare in mind im in the UK] out of hours service and she was diagnosed with both dental spurs and gastric stasis.
she had an operation to remove the dental spurs but the stasis remains and ive been feeding her recovery syringe feed,and liquid parafin prescribed by the vets to help with her bowels,,the vet also prescribed an anti biotic although im not sure what that will do for her issue.
the problem is she wont swallow the liquid feed so it just spurts back out, i think a little is getting down each time but thats it.
i found out through experimentation that she will wolf down fennel,so i have been to my dads allotment to raid his fennel and i hand feed her some every couple of hours,i cant leave it on the floor for her as binky will eat it off her.
i am just wondering how i can get my baby girl to eat food other than fennel, i dont want her to die,i have classic autism and mild intelectual disability and mabel is my best friend.