Next two photos are of Obie the night the vet told me we should let him go. He'd initially gained a pound after his surgery, only to lose it and more the next week. He wasn't pooping on his own, or at least, not much. It seemed like a loss cause. So I brought him Home, crying, to say goodbye, to take a last set of photos of him, to remember him by.
As you can see, at 6 wks, he was tiny, very very tiny.
That night, I got on line, crying my heart out. I've never had to put a pet down before, and it was just so unfair that I'd have to put this baby, who hadn't even experienced life yet, down :(
This is Obie about 2 wks after his surgery. After watching
him take things from his mama to eat, watching him play, we
refused to give up on him, so we kept going, kept fighting,
and he kept going.
As I told Dr McMakin, as long as he was fighting and didn't
give up, we wouldn't.
We switched him off of
Science Diet as he HATED it with a passion. He would turn his
nose up at the canned food to go eat puppy kibble with his
littermates. So we took him off it, and found Natural Balance,
a high quality food that was the only thing that put weight on
him. Thanks to the wonderful
PetCare Forum Rottie board, I was
able to get Dr McMakin in contact with a vet who had done this
surgery, and we started Obie on Cisapride.
And he kept going.
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