Day five.

Skipper has had a bit of a roller coaster sort of day with eating.

Although, the day began with an amazing call, on a Sunday from the specialty vet’s office that did his ultra sound down in Ft. Myers last Wednesday.

Susan, their tech, who we hadn’t met, asked how she could help us.

And I told her what we had been doing and that unfortunately Skipper had not wanted to eat anything today, but I did give him his Nutri Cal and a little bit of yogurt, which he did seem to be willing to try once again, no solids.

I told her that we weren’t sure about when we should give him his pain medication, the quarter pill of the Tramadol. She agreed with me that if he was unable to eat that could mean he was in pain. And so it was decided to start to give him that medication once again. And so at 9:50 A.M. once off the phone with her I did give it to him.

She had taken our email address to send us some other food ideas and even a few recipes.

Hill’s Science diet was on the list plus a canned salmon croquettes recipe simply made with egg and corn meal and for moisture some cottage cheese was recommended, but the yogurt we had and the other we hadn’t.

In the interim I thought I would try the pressure cooked green, no hormones chicken breast again this time with more carrots and brown rice, chopped smaller in the food processor with a little water and a sprinkle of sodium free chicken bouillon, salt is bad for him too, and heated it all for just seconds in the microwave to take the fridge cold temperature off of it…well, he loved it and ate the whole thing and I was thrilled until I read the ingredients after the fact of onion powder being in the chicken bouillon!  Onions are highly toxic for dogs! I was horrified and so I Google it and found that the small bit I sprinkled was not likely to cause him harm, whew!

But that’ll teach me to watch out!

For dinner we had our blackened Tilapia, but took a little of it out before it was seasoned and cooked it in the microwave for seconds again till flaky and Hubby did the oops game for Skipper and he was back on track with it working with eating all that was dropped, YAY!

Fish is a protein and he needs that.

This is more of a trial and error with our little darling, to see what he will eat.

If the pain medication had kicked in for him to eat that is great, and now we will have to make sure he gets it every eight to twelve hours, not just as needed but because we believe he does need it, does that make any sense?

He still is not eating veggies, but is taking the Nutri Cal and more protein with the Greek yogurt.

Tomorrow we will call the local vet to see if we can get him a can or two of the Hill’s diet to try, many of our other four legged kids had been on it and most did not like it sadly.

Meanwhile his favorite carrots, apples and even his Milk bone have not been eaten yesterday or today, and that is worrisome.

He has healthy teeth and does not even have much tartar at all compared to his predecessors who had to have theirs cleaned under anesthetic by his age of ten and seven months plus.

His teeth were deemed healthy on his yearly check up last July and so had he been.

Oddly enough they were all Milk bone junkies.

Well, that was his day so far in a nutshell.

Fortunately, his nights have been restful with him snuggling with both of us and only getting up to get some water.

He has not had any accidents and his plumbing is still functioning fine. No vomiting today at all!

Hubby had taken this picture last night, Skipper actually snuck under his Teddy to cuddle and sleep, the bear was not placed there!

On that note of such hope allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

PS don’t stop praying it seems to be working, but as we all know prayers are good for most all things these days… so keep the faith peeps! I think my Agnostic self has gone by the wayside…an old expression comes to mind "there are no atheists in foxholes!" I think it's from WWII, maybe one?

In a way fighting lethal ills is similar to going to war, true?