Dear Melva, I have had this occur three times in three different cavaliers. Two had it at the same time so we strongly suspected something bacterial or viral but couldn't come up with a definitive answer. The vet put them on a course of antibiotics but they required a second run of antibiotics. It eventually cleared up. Of course if it is viral it antibiotics won't help. In the other case, our dog needed to be put on steroids for an neck problem and our vet (different vet) decided not to put her on antibiotics because he said it seemed to be an inflammatory condition and if he was right the prednisone would reduce the inflammation anways. Of course he followed up to make sure, but she did get over it without the antibiotics. In each case, I gave a soft diet for a while to ease the pain of swallowing. The vet also gave me a high nutrient food in a tube for sick dogs. I also gave the dog those nutrient supplement drinks like Boost. Now, when they recovered we did have a period of convincing them that they didn't require any more special treatment. Like you I had done a lot of hand feeding and coddling. I hope your girl is soon on the road to recovery.
Barbara ----- Original Message ----- From: "firehair vee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:51 AM Subject: [CKCS-L] Cavalier not eating > Hello: > I am in need of assistance. I have a little tri cavalier who is just > turning 1 year old. She has always been a picky eater but about 3 months ago > she started refusing to eat. I tried force feeding her and trying different > things to entice her to eat but nothing seemed to help. I took her to my > vet and she found ulcers on the top of her throat(soft palate area). She > did blood work and it was perfect. The girl had very little swelling of the > lymph glands but not a lot. She seems in perfect health except for these > ulcers. > The first thing the vet did was have me take her off chicken in case she was > allergic to it and that was causing the ulcers. This did not help. > Then she was put on antibotics for 10 days. Still nothing. > My vet and a second vet from the office looked at her and can not seem to > find a reason for the ulcers. > The next step is to do a bioposy of the ulcer which I am leary of doing > since she is not healing from the ulcers she may not heal from the operation > and it would put a further strain on her imune system. > Has anyone had anything like this? Any suggestions of how we can proceed? > thanks > Melva > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. > ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
