kelsey514
Well-Known Member
So!
Thursday night she started to have thin diarrhea, it was mostly just when I picked her up because I didn't see much of it in the cage at all. We went to the vet on Friday. She said that it was probably a chronic issue but that mega colon is a diagnosis of exclusion, so she couldn't say for certain what it is. They didn't do a stool sample or xray, just listened to symptoms and looked at her poop. She told me to keep her on the Woody diet but to add extra fiber because that helps the intestines maintain nerve impulses better. (??) She gave 5 days of Flagyl and said it should help clear up the diarrhea and the smell.
I've kept her on the Woody diet, bought the extras that I didn't have like soy formula, baby cereal & jar food, and extra veggies. The diarrhea had stopped by Saturday morning and now I am seeing a fair amount of very dark, strange looking stools. I think this is a good sign, like all the blockage is being cleared out. They are weird twisty turny poops. She's eating ok but not great. She likes cooked carrots and butternut squash, thinks the baby cereal and mashed potatoes are ok, won't eat the jar baby food sweet potatoes or lettuce, and will only eat the pears out of fruit cocktail. She acts like I'm starving her - I think she really misses the blocks. She never drinks water - but all the food I'm giving her has so much in it that i think it's probably ok.
I talked to Bella, thanks to Lilspaz! It really helped to talk to her. Thanks Bella!
Oh by the way, I dunno what changed or if the one re-intro session in the tub really worked wonders...when I had to take Barret out of Misty's cage I didn't have a spare clean cage so I tried to take the easy way out, not really thinking it would work. I brought him over to Theodore and Thriller's cage and let them smell him for a couple minutes while I held him. They seemed like they wanted him to come in so I let him take a few steps in...and they all just started smelling each other, sharing food, cuddling and sharing their house. They haven't had one fight and it's been almost 4 days! This is weird, but awesome. They're so cute together now. All three noses poke out at the same time when I say Hi.
Thursday night she started to have thin diarrhea, it was mostly just when I picked her up because I didn't see much of it in the cage at all. We went to the vet on Friday. She said that it was probably a chronic issue but that mega colon is a diagnosis of exclusion, so she couldn't say for certain what it is. They didn't do a stool sample or xray, just listened to symptoms and looked at her poop. She told me to keep her on the Woody diet but to add extra fiber because that helps the intestines maintain nerve impulses better. (??) She gave 5 days of Flagyl and said it should help clear up the diarrhea and the smell.
I've kept her on the Woody diet, bought the extras that I didn't have like soy formula, baby cereal & jar food, and extra veggies. The diarrhea had stopped by Saturday morning and now I am seeing a fair amount of very dark, strange looking stools. I think this is a good sign, like all the blockage is being cleared out. They are weird twisty turny poops. She's eating ok but not great. She likes cooked carrots and butternut squash, thinks the baby cereal and mashed potatoes are ok, won't eat the jar baby food sweet potatoes or lettuce, and will only eat the pears out of fruit cocktail. She acts like I'm starving her - I think she really misses the blocks. She never drinks water - but all the food I'm giving her has so much in it that i think it's probably ok.
I talked to Bella, thanks to Lilspaz! It really helped to talk to her. Thanks Bella!
Oh by the way, I dunno what changed or if the one re-intro session in the tub really worked wonders...when I had to take Barret out of Misty's cage I didn't have a spare clean cage so I tried to take the easy way out, not really thinking it would work. I brought him over to Theodore and Thriller's cage and let them smell him for a couple minutes while I held him. They seemed like they wanted him to come in so I let him take a few steps in...and they all just started smelling each other, sharing food, cuddling and sharing their house. They haven't had one fight and it's been almost 4 days! This is weird, but awesome.
They're so cute together now. All three noses poke out at the same time when I say Hi.
