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Lily Update #2 – Dealing with Parvo

I think we can officially say that Lily has kicked Parvo’s butt!

It has been five days since she was diagnosed and started treatment, and seven days since she started showing symptoms. She is super active and keeps trying to get Sawyer, the cats, Hazel, and us to play with her. She was very sad the last two nights when we left her home while we all went for a walk. The cats didn’t go, but yes, Hazel goes for walks with us. She walks better on a leash than the dogs do, hehe.

We had to exchange Lily’s lactated ringers with the vitamin C and B for plain lactated ringers late Friday because she developed sores in her mouth. The vet felt it was a reaction to the vitamin C. She got 300mls of IV fluids daily(slowly, over the course of the day) Thursday through Saturday. I pulled her catheter on Sunday morning because she had gone 36 hours without vomiting and was eating food.

I tried starting her off with a scrambled egg, but she wasn’t interested. A little later I offered her a raw egg and she gobbled that right up. It was an egg fresh from our chickens that morning. I don’t think I would have done that with store-bought eggs. Later that day I boiled some chicken for her and kept feeding her little bits of that with some of the broth from cooking it. She has been eating boiled chicken for the last few days now. I cooked up some jasmine rice this morning  to add to the chicken to give her a little bulk to her meals.

Yesterday I added probiotics to her regiment of medications. I will give her the probiotics for the next week to help replenish the good bacteria in her GI system. Today is her last day for the antibiotic injections. I will continue the Colloidal Silver for another few days. The dose I found is 1ml per 20 lbs, twice daily.

Now we are just waiting for her poos to return to normal. She had one semi-solid poo last night. 🙂

I will leave you with this cute pic of Lily and Hazel that I took just before she was diagnosed with Parvo.

Critters- a pet post

These are all of our pets. Ones that are actually ours and ones that are up for adoption or have been adopted. We keep having stray dogs show up at our house. . .

We adopted Sawyer the end of August 2008 after losing our terrier mix to cancer. The poor guy had no idea what love or cookies were. He is now a very confident, very important, member of our family. He will be 5 years old in October.

I started out fostering Isis and Radar when they were 6 weeks old. Obviously, I ended up adopting them 🙂 They will be 5 years old the end of June.

Adopted – Lucy showed up at 1am on Dec 8, 2011. She ended up staying with us for 2.5 months before we found her a home.

Adopted – I found Puck on the road about 5 minutes from the house. He was only 5lbs. I couldn’t just leave him there. He was with us for a few months before he was adopted by another family.

Lily and Verbal showed up on the morning of March 23, 2012. We have decided to keep Lily.

Adoptable – Verbal and Lily showed up on the morning or March 23, 2012. We are currently trying to find Verbal a home.

Adoptable – Blue showed up on the evening of May 1, 2012. We are currently trying to find him a home.

We brought Hazel home on April 24, 2012. She is a character and a great addition to the family. She is a 4.5 month old Nigerian Dwarf. She will be our milk goat.

The Triplets of Bellville Hehe, Have you seen that movie? We brought these ladies home the end of April this year. They have been supplying us with fresh eggs every day.