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Post by sherik on May 13, 2015 19:02:58 GMT -5
That is what my vet suggested. She actually said, too bad he doesn't like raw because you could just add a piece of pancreas to every meal. Problem is, no ethnic markets around here. But I will ask at the local grocery store if they can order it in. His enzymes will be in on Friday. In the meantime I got some weak pork pancreatic enzymes from the health food store. The stuff they sell over the counter is too weak to treat this disease.
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Post by Celene on May 13, 2015 19:36:51 GMT -5
sherik, I was able to order Carnivore Care to Vancouver through Canadian Pet Connection. I just emailed explaining that I wanted it in my "emergency kit" and wouldn't feed without approval from my vet first and they had no problem shipping me some (along with some great new FDR treats and other things I ordered). You're from Castlegar? I love your airport! The only one I've been to that has their cafe entirely unmanned and on the "honour system"
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Post by Celene on May 13, 2015 19:42:40 GMT -5
As for pancreas, I'm not sure about Castlegar specifically, but I'm sure there are a number of small and/or hobby farmers in the area that raise their own livestock. If you contacted them directly I bet they'd be glad that someone is interested in the organs that nobody usually wants.
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Post by sherik on May 14, 2015 9:39:53 GMT -5
I might be able to get some pancreas from this meat place out of town. As for sunny. He is a brat. He wouldn't stop trying to pull his catheter out or chew his stitches. I don't know that the enzymes are helping yet. His poop is still gross, although more brown than yellow. He had a tiny piece of formed poo this morning. I've added a little more. I'm adding 1/2 capsule of pancreatim 4x into 6tbs of food. Will see what it looks like in a few hours. His transit time is perfect. He eats and it comes out in 4 hours almost to the dot.
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Post by Celene on May 14, 2015 9:44:18 GMT -5
If I had a catheter stuck in me and didn't know why I needed it I'd probably try and chew it off too... :\
It sounds like he's making progress though!
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Post by sherik on May 14, 2015 10:19:35 GMT -5
He's so hungry though. I bumped up his food to 10ml every two/three hours. I just don't want to bother the stitched in his intestine where they took a biopsy
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 10:26:45 GMT -5
He's so hungry though. I bumped up his food to 10ml every two/three hours. I just don't want to bother the stitched in his intestine where they took a biopsy Maybe you could call your vet and ask her, what's amount of food is best for him now and how often. Being hungry is such a good sign. (dance)
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Post by sherik on May 14, 2015 12:29:13 GMT -5
His catheter has been pulled out. Well the screw in part. Going to see if they can just screw a new tip on it. I doubt it, but hopefully.
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Post by sherik on May 14, 2015 12:31:09 GMT -5
The amount of food she wants me to feed him isn't even enough to sustain a ferret that is absorbing everything, let alone sunny. She's just afraid of him opening up. He needs to eat 150% a day of what a normal ferret would to start putting weight back on.
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Post by Celene on May 14, 2015 15:22:22 GMT -5
>< You could probably feed him soupies every 3-4 hours or so... That way the liquid would be easier on his intestines and the old food would be "out" before the new stuff went in so there wouldn't be too much pressure at any given time. I would probably be safer to give him more food that way. Even if it was only 0.5 oz at a time if you fed him at 6am, 9am, 12pm, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm that's 3oz total which is a lot of food! Or at least for raw it would be... I don't know what the kibble-soup equivalent would be :\ katt, I know you're pretty busy right now.. But an opinion from Dr. Katt might be helpful
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Post by sherik on May 14, 2015 18:09:05 GMT -5
I got him a hypoallergenic food from the vet. Yes... vet food suck. But it's easy to get it into him and it's supposed to be easy to digest, it's a canned food though. NO kibble for him at all anymore, not even in a soupy. Cause he is still deteriorating. He is back on the metro, will keep him on this even until after he starts having formed poops. Got some good probiotics for him. I don't know what else I can do at this point. His good enzymes will be in tomorrow afternoon. The 0.5oz every three hours is a good idea. It works out to 90ml in total, or around the clock it would be 120ml. I just need to get more into him, so that he at least absorbs something from it.
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Post by sherik on May 14, 2015 18:13:43 GMT -5
What all the fuss is about.
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Post by FireAngel on May 14, 2015 22:56:21 GMT -5
Completely worth the fuss. I hope he feels better soon. No one likes having tummy issues! *
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Post by sherik on May 16, 2015 13:51:18 GMT -5
So I'm truly thinking sunny does have a bad case of ECE. We've added Imodium three times a day to slow his digestion down. That and the pancrease from the vets to predigest his food for him. Metronidazole just in case. We've had two semi formed poops this morning. The first looked like food, the second looked more digested, but you could still see bits of Undigested fat in it. He's getting 100ml of subq fluids a day, and is finally peeing. Crossing my fingers this works. He's lost a little over 1/3 of his body weight.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2015 17:58:54 GMT -5
I am so sorry. bless his heart ---hoping u get to feeling better, little man.
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