The thing that had been worrying me most about Sparkle was that she didn’t appear to be eating during the day but this morning she joined in with the mid morning spinach then she went to the dish of mash. I have been putting in two dishes of mash each day just to try to tempt her and this was the first day that we saw her eat from it. She even pecked Emerald out of her way.
She is much more difficult to pick up for her medicine in the morning and this morning she struggled when we put it in her beak (this also shows she is gaining strength). We don’t want to put her through the stress of this but she wouldn’t take it from food before. Now that she is eating again we have decided that tomorrow morning we will put her in the cat box with her medicine on some fish as this is what she seems to like to eat the most.
She needs to take her medicine for four more days to the complete the ten day course so I measured out her medicine to see if there was enough to waste another day’s dose if this doesn’t work. There are two extra days dose so we will give this a go tomorrow.
I listened to her breathing and could no longer hear the bubbling noise. We decided that as she was eating again we wouldn’t need to put her in the cat box in the evening.
She was preening and moving around more during the day and also joined in with the bedtime sunflower hearts. She perched up next to Topaz at bedtime. I hadn’t really noticed that much of a friendship between these two before now but since Sparkle has been unwell they have spent a lot of time sitting together which is quite heart warming.
Sparkle and Topaz at bedtime
I am now feeling much more positive about Sparkle. I really do think she is now on the mend at last.
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YEA Sparkle!
Thank you. I will keep you posted.
I knew she could do it with your TLC .
Sparkle is a little trooper.
I really hope we are on the home run now. She looked so much better yesterday and it was such a relief to see her eating her again.
Really good news!
Thank you. I am feeling much happier about her today. She took her medicine from a dish of fish in the cat box this morning so we didn’t need to put it in her beak then I returned her to the run. She has joined in with spinach and mash this morning and apple this afternoon. She has started to run to me again (if she thinks there may be treats) albeit slower than the rest but she was always slower than the rest anyway. If I get close to her she is now very wary in case her I grab her. Only three more days of medicine to go then she won’t need me to grab her any more!