Hope we are not too late!

Sure we love our Skipper, and that goes without asking …  and sure we want to do everything possible for him and so after trying to get him to eat everything and anything suggested by knowledgeable people and reliable Internet sites…we finally have given in to contacting his doctor again and the holistic doc too for the first time, who is a VMD!

Now his Dr. Randy DVM has ordered medication to help with his appetite stimulation that should be in tomorrow afternoon (I had Googled to see if there were such a thing and then waited for the doc to reply on what I found.), and the holistic doc will be seeing him next week at the soonest.

It is nice to know that there are not too many divas in the veterinary profession, ya know?

We seemed to, at times, have found a few in the people medicine arena, ya know that too, I am more than sure of this.

Skipper’s appetite is iffy at best and it also becomes confusing on what to make for him when the doctors first tell you to use a specific diet that he spits out and when you go to try certain other things it says no high sodium due to blood pressure, no beef due to nasty enzymes, no toxic things of course to dogs as onions or garlic… and those things are good for humans though, not the beef or sodium but the onions and garlic.

Nutrition for people and dogs is NOT the same and what we may think is okay, may very well be taboo for our four legged friends.

Although, some silly things that Skipper would beg for that we were strict parents who made sure that he always ate his specific dog food only since he was born with a sensitive tummy and as a pup and even as an adult would find non food to eat, mostly outside that created havoc with his gastrogenic system, from the time of the infamous Hurricane Charley of 2004 when he was only a five and a half month old pup and debris flew into our yard from our home and our neighbors, insulation and such…not food stuff, but he ate a bit of it before we could grab it away of the NOT food stuff!

Yes, he with his brothers of Charlie the Cockatiel who was a mere twenty-five years old then and his pal Casey the cat, our orange tabby with amber eyes… who was around seven-ish at that time, a foundling, and so yep he was the baby, and I suppose he always will be, since his buddies have long since passed on; you all know how that goes…

Skipper’s emergency is that now that we can see through his thick lamb-like coat that he is diminishing in size…by his collar getting too big and is shoulder blades being felt as well as his ribs that were always felt just right, he has never ever been fat, but never ever too thin either, I guess one could say just right at around fifteen pounds or up or down a pound or two from there in either direction at times, but never for very long…

If we had a proper scale I would say his weight loss is significant and so we have thrown caution to the wind and Googled, yep, not too jeopardizing his well-being… I checked to see if he could, in his present condition have and egg and some bacon?

And last night, he has an entire slice of BACON with about a half of a scrambled egg!

I know some of you purist are thinking that this is not such a good idea, but he ate it!

And the verification from his doctor’s office was that he ate and now who can argue with that?

So tonight we tried it again this time with two slices of BACON and the rest of the egg and he ate nearly the whole thing, well not all but quite a bit…

Hubby and I were talking to his doctor’s office early on about whether or not to force feed him they said it could come to that and so I sent hubby to go and get the larger plastic syringes for feeding and the young woman, Sara, at the local Pet Supermarket was quite knowledgeable.

You see, her thirteen year old Great Dane was diagnosed with lung cancer six months ago with being told he had three days to live, and no there is no second hand smoke in her home she assured me.

Any-who, she went holistic with him and so far six months later he is still with her on 23 different herbs and supplements, which made me, perk up my ears and listen to what she had to say.

I told her of the holistic veterinary doctor I was told about and she said to check with her since Skipper’s cancer was in different organs and his size and all, very responsible young woman. She did say that giving our little darling fish oil which comes in squirt form, making it easy for him to take and so Hubby picked that up too and he has had some today.

Skipper had his half of Pepcid again tonight this time melted in the syringe, silly us we thought he had to chew it… perhaps that will help him with calming his tummy, it helps mine usually.

So now we have a plan of attack to try that hopefully will have a positive effect, he is so thin and weak, I sure hope we weren’t too late!

Those last few words made me feel like crying… anyway, let me be the first one 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!