Argh! (A rant)

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Mare Stare

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I'm having one of those days when everything is going wrong.

Firstly, I have a cold. I am full of nasty green snot. I sneezed this morning and my right ear has popped. It's refusing to unpop and I can hear my pulse continuously and my voice seems really loud which is really really starting to irritate me.

Then, Dooney has decided not to eat his breakfast this morning. Dooney has Protein Losing Enteropathy caused by Lawsonia Intracellularis. He has to have 20 Doxycycline capsules twice a day. His breakfast is full of it (well, the powder from the capsules). Up until this morning he has eaten it quite happily. I NEED HIM TO EAT! He's skeletal as it is.

So, I want to phone the vet to see what she advises. The house phone is missing. :mad: Bloody kids. We have one of those cordless phones that you can walk round the house with. Someone has wandered off with it, let the battery die and now it can't be found. :mad::mad::mad:

So, I resort to my mobile. My mobile is rarely used. It's just a top up phone. No credit so I try to top it up.

Unfortunately, my phone is Virgin and for some reason hates my Natwest Visa Debit card. It won't top up. I have to wait to speak to customer services who tell me the fault lies with my card. It doesn't. It works for everything else just not Virgin. :mad:

I'm just having a cup of tea to try and calm my nerves before I venture out to buy a top up voucher. In the meantime I have set the kids to find the house phone. And I am trying to unpop my ears with the aid of a hairdryer, and that doesn't appear to be working either.

GRRR!

Can anyone suggest how I can convince Dooney to eat? He's eating grass. He's actually looking quite well in himself considering he's ill.
 
I feel your pain eith the PLE - we had a horse with it - awful condition.
We used to pick grass for him and feed it him in large tub trugs as thats all he would eat when he was having a bad day.

Also i used to have to make a syringe up with his drugs when he wouldn't eat them and give him them like a wormer - not nice but necessary
 
forestfantasy said:
I feel your pain eith the PLE - we had a horse with it - awful condition.
We used to pick grass for him and feed it him in large tub trugs as thats all he would eat when he was having a bad day.

Also i used to have to make a syringe up with his drugs when he wouldn't eat them and give him them like a wormer - not nice but necessary
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He's quite happy to eat grass at the moment.

I'm going to have to get a syringe. Did you just mix the powder up with water?
 
Be careful with your ear as that is exactly how mine started and I ignored it for a while thinking I was bunged up with wax after having a cold, went to the docs and I had perforated my eardrum and had blood in there, it's still not right and I may have to go to a hearing specialist so get it checked out if it doesn't settle quickly!
 
When mine wouldn't eat and needed drugs I just got a huge syringe and made a liquidy paste with the powder, not pleasant but he needed it. Unfortunately he's now a tit to worm because he thinks its going to be all that awful stuff but needs must.
 
LouS said:
When mine wouldn't eat and needed drugs I just got a huge syringe and made a liquidy paste with the powder, not pleasant but he needed it. Unfortunately he's now a tit to worm because he thinks its going to be all that awful stuff but needs must.
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Give him an apple sauce (or whatever he likes best) syringe everyday? He won't be expecting the next lot of yuckiness then. Bribery is good.:)
 
scrunchie said:
He's quite happy to eat grass at the moment.

I'm going to have to get a syringe. Did you just mix the powder up with water?
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Yeah and a bit of apple juice or similar to make it more tasty.
The problem with Jake was that no matter what 'tasty' stuff we tried if he was that depressed he just didnt want to eat.
PLE horses aren't just being fussy - they are genuinely not interested because of the consequences (water for droppings :()
We found certain grass brought Jakes episodes of PLE on. He couldn't cope with 'seeded' paddocks & needed a well established meadow type pasture.
He also couldn't have Bute in any form.
 
When my boy had to have bute over summer, I gave it him with cranberry juice :o He's used to having cranberry, which is quite bitter, and supposedly bute is bitter too.... he never complained!! :)
 
Mix the powder with some fenugreek, delicious.
Else will he eat banana? My pony loves them and they are nice and soft for mixing the meds into (check he likes it first)
 
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you'd not get near mine with a banana ... a mars bar mind you ??

what about apple baby food ? corner shop mix drugs in put in feed ??
 
Aw thanks everyone.

Some great suggestions there.

The vet has just been and given him a jabful of his antibiotics and taken more blood. She thinks he is doing well - he's certainly no worse. He's just off his feed.

It was so horrible seeing her peel off his rug though. He really looks like one of those neglect cases you see on charity websites. Painfully thin. :(

On a better note, my feed delivery came. I've got Pure Condition in pellet form. Hopefully he'll start to fatten up soon.

ETA - Oh! And I've found the house phone and my ear has finally popped!!!
 
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