Hi! So, my vet won’t be back in office until Monday and I’ve been treating what I believe is GI stasis since Friday after I picked him up from the vet.
The vet informed me that he didn’t eat, drink, or poop from 10 am to 5 pm when they had him, and told me to do critical care and syringe water when I got home (vet ended up very short staff or I’m sure they’d have done it that day too).
I thought they should start eating on their own when they start pooping well. Is that not the case? He gets antibiotics twice daily (snuffles), baby gas drops 4 times a day, critical care and water every few hours (syringe feed), and lettuce three times a day right now. He’ll happily eat the lettuce and I believe he’s still eating his hay, but he refuses to touch pellets despite his poops now being very good for about 24 hours. Is this normal?
He was rapidly losing weight when he completely stopped eating pellets last week, and I believe that may have been the start of the stasis, but now I can feel that he’s put some of that weight back on but he’s still not eating pellets on his own!
by Sewing_girl_101
