Grace got sick a couple days ago with what we think was the beginning of stasis – her poops were coming out very mucus-y (I know, *gag*) and she wasn’t eating her pellets.  We took her to the vet the next morning (my husband extended her pen that night and SLEPT IN IT because sometimes she would grind her teeth and he wanted to be there to comfort her!) The vet gave her a pain shot, and two motility drugs, and recommended that we force feed with critical care until she started eating on her own.

So we’ve been force feeding the critical care for two days and when I gave her the critical care and water half of it was on her chin, almost half was on the floor and about 5% went down her throat   So today I decided that it was because the critical care smells pretty icky.  So I concocted a critical care smoothie with banana, and she ate the whole thing down and even tried to chew on the syringe to get more out!

Here is how I made it:

I blended a cup of water and half of a banana in my blender, basically to make “banana water” – and then I used that to add to the critical care to get the critical care to the consistency I wanted – I didn’t make it too watery.  The only thing to be careful of is to really blend the banana and water so you don’t get any chunks that get stuck in the syringe.

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone else has any mixes they do with their critical care? I’d love to try a couple new ones on Grace and maybe we can compile a little recipe list!