Re: [Chihuahuas] Re: My poor baby (long ..sorry!)

[Jen-CA]

Try the boiled chicken mixed with the soften kibble and slowly remove the chicken and make the kibble less soft.  I feed my puppies who are getting ready to leave Royal Canin puppy 33 and I did use Nutro canned but they do not like it so the boiled chicken is what is best at first.  I feed all my adults raw everything like they would get in the wild.  I do not start my puppies on Raw as then they will refuse dog food all together go figure huh?  They truly know what is best for themselves.  If only they could talk     Jen-CAKAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:  Right now I have our new little girl "Tia" on the dry food that her breeder had her on, however she isn't eating much of that. So, right now I would just be happy if I could find "anything" that she would eat with gusto, I
 don't care if it's considered good food or bad food.   When we bred and showed dogs years ago we fed the frozen Bil-Jac and our dogs thrived on it. Some people consider Bil-Jac as "not so good food", so go figure.   Kat   nicksbedwarmer wrote:    I said I was switching from Maxximum Nutrition to Bil Jac which seems awful high quality to me at $25 a bag and vaccuum packed, fresh meat and all that. I find it humorous that people go so overboard on the "good food-bad food" thing when long ago I had a Great Dane that was just GORGEOUS...no fat, great muscle tone, shiny coat.  A vet I was just using to get rabies shots from as I gave him his other shots myself commented on how beautiful he was and not overweight like so many she saw and asked what food he was on.  At the time, my now ex husband would have
 never ever spent a ton of money on food so we either bought a big bag of high protein food from the feed supply store for $7 or we bought Petsmart's brand.  Makes me wonder about all this so called "high quality" food.   --- In Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com, Jen-CA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can also keep Karo syrup in their water at all times.  I would suggest a high quality food and Wal-Mart is not the place for that. I would also suggest a high quality can food and a tablespoon morning and night.  It sounds like he has Coccidia and a severe case at that.  Honey is good, Nutrical is better.  Always make sure they are eating, if they do not like the food you offer, mix it with boiled chicken then slowly remove the boiled chicken until all they are
 eating is the kibble.  These little ones CANNOT go without food.  If they are not eating, find something they will eat.  Nutrical also stimulates them to want to eat but do not give to much of it you can end up with the runs with will dehydrate your pup. > >   Good luck, let us know how it goes. > >   Jen-CA > > KAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >   I'm so sorry to hear about Sparky. It sounds like he may have hypoglycimea, hopfully he wont have to have surgery. We're having problems with our little girl "Tia" not eating enough and I constantly worry about her going in to hypoglycimea. I give her a little NutraCal once a day. If you don't have NutraCal on hand I've been told that you can give them a dab of
 honey everyday.   Please keep us posted on Sparky's progress.   Kat   nicksbedwarmer wrote: My 12-week-old Chihuahua, Sparky, is at the emergency vet clinic > tonight.  We just got him Tuesday night, late, and he threw up in the > car going home.  Then, he threw up the next morning before going to > my vet for a checkup and a booster, since he was due.  The vet said > it was probably just nerves and getting adjusted to a new home. > Fine.  Yesterday, Friday, he ate nothing at all and only drank a > small bit a couple of times.  Today, Saturday (just to clariy as it's > 1:10 a.m. as I type this so technically Sunday) he ate a teeny tiny > amount and drank some but then, about 10:45 p.m., he was sleeping > peacefully on my chest
 while I read a Chihuahua book I got at the > library and then woke up making a lovely hurling noise and I ran to > the pee pads to let him throw up there.  He threw up brown stuff that > had a slight odor around his mouth after.  He collapsed after that > and wouldn't move from the spot, was even stepping in his vomit.  I > picked him up and tried to get him to drink something.  He wouldn't > have it.  He just looked at me so pathetically and I picked his limp > little body up and put him back on my chest where he promptly went > back to sleep.  I made a mental note to call the vet's office > Monday.  Well, no sooner had I thought that, he started in again > about 20 minutes later and same thing but this time he was a LOT > limper and just
 wasn't at all the way I think a puppy, even a teeny > tiny one, should be.  I called the emergency clinic and they said to > bring him in so we did.  They did a test for Parvo as they said even > though he had had parvo vaccine from the breeder that it could have > been ineffective as some people let them get warm and it's not > effective or something like that.  Anyway, fine.  That was negative. > They took some blood and popped an IV in him and gave him some > dextrose.  He pepped up with that and they are keeping him until > tomorrow evening, she said, so they can see if they can get him to > eat and what he'll eat and run some more tests.  She said he may have > to be on a different diet than my two Shih Tzus.  I have
 them > switching right now from the Maxximum Choice stuff they sell at Wal-   > Mart to Bil Jac puppy food but he really doesn't seem to want > anything to do with it much though he wolfed down a bowl of it the > first day he was here.  I'm just worried about him and hope he's okay > and it is just a matter of finding a diet he will eat.  She said his > blood sugar was so low it didn't register so it was good I brought > him in.  Pray for my tiny baby everyone!!   P.s. The vet assistant asked if the other puppies acted okay and I > had to admit that I only saw him and one other that was younger than > him as we met the lady at a McDonald's.  She lives on an army base > and said that she "would hate for us to have to try to get on
 base." > The vet assistant said that, in the future, that should serve as a > big red flag if they won't let you come to their house as something > is usually amiss..dirty conditions..all the pups are sick..whatever. > I'm attached to this little guy though and I told them to do > whatever.  Guesstimate was about $365 and I'm hoping it stays around > that and he doesn't have a blockage.  He's so tiny I don't know if he > could stand surgery. > > > > > " Lets talk about our wonderful little friends! > Join today! " > > > > --------------------------------- >   YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > >
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