Not so good today...

Yes, I am speaking about our little darling Skipper and it was a darn frustrating day.

He was able to ingest the Nutri Cal, but in reality he didn’t have much choice, since I put it on his roof of his mouth when I found out that he wouldn’t lick it off my finger.

Tough Momma, but even so it is nutritional and later on today we thought we found the ‘key’ to getting him to eat solids by saying “oops!” You see, all of our four legged babies used to keep our floors clean when we would say that, it goes back to when the boys were small, our two legged ones, and so Hubby decided to try it with the chicken that for some reason today did not seem as attractive to him when we served it up in his very clean stainless water dish that we brought in from outside days ago, newly purchased this month.

And so the “oops” worked like a charm for several chicken pieces falling to the floor scenarios.

But he didn’t seem to be perking up so much and he was acting sluggishly so I gave him the last quarter of the Tramadol pill that I had cut up on Wednesday in fourths hoping if he was in pain that this would perk him up.

I eventually brought out the big guns, meaning his love of sharing an apple with me, also supposed to be helpful with digestion. After I washed the skin thoroughly I eat it off and give him pieces from underneath it that over the years he has well enjoyed…but although he was very excited when he saw the apple and jumped up on my lap as he would always do to share…I gave him his first piece and he just stared at it and so I made it a little bit smaller and put it on my finger and he looked seriously sad, he wanted it in his heart but for some reason he couldn’t eat it… right then I wanted to cry!

In my mind it was due to feeling nauseous, which the doctor had said to give him a half of a Pepcid, which he has had over the years many times and would chew it up too without a problem, but now that wasn’t even happening…

This baffled me and for some reason I felt I knew the answer to why his tummy was not well, and so this time Hubby came up with the brilliant idea of chopping up the Pepcid half and putting it in some Nutri Cal on my finger which I promptly did!

He licked off the Nutri Cal this time to my pleasant surprise but somehow he spit the Pepcid out of it! What a talent, hmm?

I finally left my poor sick child alone to rest, but he really wanted to go out with Hubby who was trimming the Bougainvillea down by the water. So how could I resist that and so off he went with his Daddy.

He came in and acted fine but then he threw up his unchewed chicken from all those oopses with his undigested pain medication that had just been given to him… I suppose the oops was on us!

Being the Mom that I am I was now more worried about him have good nutrition and so I Googled something that I was pretty sure I had read a while ago, about dogs being able to have yogurt and how it helped with their digestion too, and sure enough it was there on another reliable site!

Since we do have Greek yogurt in our fridge giving him a taste on my finger was no big deal and so that is what I did, and you know what happened?

He ate it, and loved it! So I gave him more.

I forgot to Google on how much he should have though.

Dogs, not unlike people have digestive systems that with some things like Probiotics are good for them too!

Now during dinner I tried some mushed sweet potato and cauliflower too for him in his stainless bowl and he still wasn’t interested in those either but Hubby thought he would again try the “oops’ with some chicken and this time it did not work, too soon I suspect, Skipper has a decent memory, but I did put some yogurt on my mashed potato this time not sweet, and I told Hubby to give Skipper some yogurt on his finger and he said that he would and he thought to chop some chicken into it and Skipper licked the yogurt around the chicken, I guess since that wasn’t too Kosher, kidding!

 Milk and meat?

Never mind.

Now all we can do is hope tomorrow will be a better day for him and that we can get some more solids in him.

Without nutrition… you know the rest…

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

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