- Aug 11, 2011
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Today has been kind of a bad day - our Pomeranian managed to get ahold of our Jersey Giant Stella and tore the skin from behind her comb all the way down to her shoulders clean off.
She's seen the vet, he gave her IV fluids for the shock, a pain killer injection (Butorphanol) as well as Meloxicam, and Sulfamethoxazole & Trimethoprim. The latter are a NSAID and an antibiotic oral suspension respectively as I understand it.
They stapled the skin back on but the vet thinks she's going to lose most of it eventually because there's not any blood going to it. Right now she's critical but he sent her home with more of the oral antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds and scheduled a recheck Friday (he's out all week and he's the only vet who does any kind of avian care at that clinic).
My questions are mostly about how to feed her. He recommended we try hand feeding formula for baby birds, which we purchased, but I know she also likes yogurt and oatmeal, are those ok? I got her to eat a tiny bit, but she's so out of it from pain and meds that she wasn't exactly eating so much as freaking out and waking up every time we started to dribble food in her beak. She's breathing kind of heavily and 'chewing', but the vet had said that was due to pain and also it's late here so she might be trying to sleep?
Also, her crop feels squishy, but not exactly full. Can trauma cause sour crop? She's only been on antibiotics for about 6 hours now.
I don't know what else to do. The breathing got me worried about her drying out her throat and I got her to drink a little from a syringe. Does she need to be kept in a warm room? We have her in a kennel in the spare bedroom and it's about 68 degrees in there, but I have a space heater we can use.
Sorry for all the questions, but the vet being unavailable all week has me worried, especially since he stressed that she could still die from secondary infection due to the open wounds.
She's seen the vet, he gave her IV fluids for the shock, a pain killer injection (Butorphanol) as well as Meloxicam, and Sulfamethoxazole & Trimethoprim. The latter are a NSAID and an antibiotic oral suspension respectively as I understand it.
They stapled the skin back on but the vet thinks she's going to lose most of it eventually because there's not any blood going to it. Right now she's critical but he sent her home with more of the oral antibiotics and anti-inflammatory meds and scheduled a recheck Friday (he's out all week and he's the only vet who does any kind of avian care at that clinic).
My questions are mostly about how to feed her. He recommended we try hand feeding formula for baby birds, which we purchased, but I know she also likes yogurt and oatmeal, are those ok? I got her to eat a tiny bit, but she's so out of it from pain and meds that she wasn't exactly eating so much as freaking out and waking up every time we started to dribble food in her beak. She's breathing kind of heavily and 'chewing', but the vet had said that was due to pain and also it's late here so she might be trying to sleep?
Also, her crop feels squishy, but not exactly full. Can trauma cause sour crop? She's only been on antibiotics for about 6 hours now.
I don't know what else to do. The breathing got me worried about her drying out her throat and I got her to drink a little from a syringe. Does she need to be kept in a warm room? We have her in a kennel in the spare bedroom and it's about 68 degrees in there, but I have a space heater we can use.
Sorry for all the questions, but the vet being unavailable all week has me worried, especially since he stressed that she could still die from secondary infection due to the open wounds.
I tried massaging her crop but it doesn't feel any less full. She ate a little more and drank some water mixed with Pedialyte. I've got her sitting next to me in the living room, but every once in a while she 'jumps' and I'm not sure if she's trying to stand or if something else is going on.
