I can’t thank you enough for your help. I’m sorry I’m late getting back to you. I don’t know how to receive notifications.

We haven’t been feeding her any greens for about a week ( she would only eat fresh greens a couple of weeks ago so we didn’t have much choice). She has always had intolerance to fresh veggies so we’ve always stuck to dried weeds once the vet reccomend it. We also taken her off pellets about four years ago and she stopped needing her teeth burred every few months. When she was baby she had diarrhea constantly until we switched to grain free and the critical care formula th e vets gave us a fee weeks ago had grain in., we didn’t realise at the time as we only had the sachets and not the box woth the ingredients on. At the time she hadn’t eaten for days and the vet said her stomach was entirely empty so it was an emergency.

We was feeding her grain free pellets in a syringe, and dried weeds, dried parsely, and dried flowers for the last two weeks maybe. She barely touched the dried stuff but was ravenous for the syringe

Her droppings were very mushy and dark on the pellets so I bought a coffee grinder and I’m grinding up dried timothy hay and dried parsley and mixing with warm water to syringe feed her with for the last four days. She didn’t have as much gas for the last few days except a bad episode last night.

I mixed in slippery elm today to reduce the inflammation/mucus and she has seemed 100 times better today.

Her poos have been more regular with no mucus and larger. Her appetite picked up much earlier tonight too.  But as soon as she goes to sleep at 6.30 tomorrow morning she will be almost certainly be back to not eating or moving much again.

Its bizarre. She seems to eat only when encouraged or when we rub her tummy.

One new problem is she is peeing down the inside of her hind legs and stamping in the litter tray once she’s done it. She does have arthritis but she’s on metcam 3 times a day and doesn’t seem to be stiff. I’m not sure if it could be related. She’s not straining to pee or sitting hunched like she did when she has bladder stones years ago so I don’t think it could be that….

Thanks again for your help

I’m doing my best but I felt like I must be doing something wrong, so I really appreciate your reassurance and help. It’s nice not to feel alone.

Thanks again

Jade

Aw thank you, I’m lucky too that she’s still fighting. Shes giving a good fight at her age! I’ll keep this thread updated if I find out any more, just in case.

Jade

That would be great. Her appetite is improving and there has been no massive blobs of mucus.

Tonight she’s been in pain since 9pm woth gas until she passed the mucus covered poos. They are a great size though. No small hard pellets. No obvious streaks of blood either.

I can’t wait to get to the bottom of this. We’re so tired of the endless struggling. This month has seemed to go on endlessly.

Of her appetite has improved and her behaviour more generally, less lethargic, foraging surely that’s a good sign she’s recovering?

Jade

Thank you for your help Dana and suggestions. I will get some probiotics for her. I had been using bio lapis.

I have very good news since we stopped the cisapride in Friday all the bloating has stopped her mucus has almost gone and she is eating without encouragement all day and night. She was obviously over stimulated by it and improved almost the instant it was out of her system.

She’s running round jumping on the couch, running over looking for treats and cuddles. I’d say she’s back to her usual self or very close to it.

Thanks for all your help. I would have been lost without it.

Yes Dana I had wondered than myself!

Glad you’ve seen my update Pinkiemarie I’m so relieved!

Thanks to both of you for keeping an eye out and offering help and reassurance to me. It kept me going!