Well, I would not call it cooking per se. Rather, I have been able to reduce Money Hole Dawg's kibble diet to a mix of kibble, pumpkin and water and she eats it heartily. In other words, she is still alive after I've had to process her food for each feeding since Tuesday. Kibble, for those who don't have dogs, is like little gravel pebbles with similar texture but they are much harder than gravel. Amazingly, they are actually food. I don't know what form of cement they mix in with the food, but it makes each little kibble rather, umm, indestructible.
It turns out I take her normal feeding amount of kibble--2/3rds cup-- throw it in the blender, throw in a huge tablespoon of pumpkin from the can and cover with water. I am now a master at the controls to reduce this concoction to the consistency of a thick pea soup--only I have prepared a pumpkin-kibble soup any dog would love.
To feed her, I put the pill and one half in a Pill Pocket as an appetizer, load the liquid medicine into a small bowl with the pumpkin soup and voila! Money Hole Dawg's dinner (or breakfast, its the same without the liquid medication.)
Feeding a dog with an Elizabethan scratch prevention collar is not easy. So, the concoction is put into two smaller bowls that I then hold under her snout while she eats (bowl #1 has the medication in it.) If you are ever in the position to do this, do not wear good clothes nor plan on doing anything with your hands without a rather vigorous, aggressive cleaning. Dawg drool, pumpkin, medicine and cement like kibble make for a rather disgusting layer of crud on one's hands.
As for her medications, what would you take if you had 14 teeth removed?
Clavamox is amoxicillin with an extender that makes it broader based than it normally is.
Metacam is an aggressive form of anti-inflammatory for dogs, i.e., a doggie NSAID.
Tramadol is a narcotic pain reliever.
For those who have experienced Money Hole Dawg, aka Wiggles, you know she is a perpetual motion machine. On these drugs, however, she is more like Keith Richards after a particularly hard night partying!
The bottom line is that she is doing well. When the drugs wear off, she is full of P&V as always--she wasn't nicknamed Demand-It Dawg for no reason. Once the collar is off, she then can go in and out of the dog door on her own so she will be much closer to normal behavior. Because she cannot go out on her own right now, I take her for walks every few hours. It is amazing, she pees three doors down, she does number 2 between houses 8 and 11 and then she pees again at house #16. Just a regular little clock she is!
During all of this, Shawna exhibits absolute boredom. She is doing fine although the vet did a quick look see while I had them boarded during my working hours this week. Another mass was found under her skin and two of her yucky under skin things have enlarged. At her age of 17+, all we do is monitor her to see if there is discomfort. So far, no indications of that.
That is all for now!
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