I feel so stressed out...Snowy is not eating and hence not taking his medicines. It's so frustrating! Makes me wonder what I had gotten myself into...taking care of a physically abused dog who obviously has psycho issues too!
Feli and I walked Snowy this morning. We met 3 dog lovers. One of them (named El) who stay just 1 floor below us, was so sweet...she gave us some rash powder from her army son for Snowy. Another lady who is visiting her relative was leaving today (24 May, Mon) but so happened volunteers at the HongKong dog rescue. She told me to write in to their CEO Sally for questions on how to feed our dog medicine. Our new friend El told me she feeds her dog liquid medicine by putting the syringe between its teeth and cheek. They all agreed though that since Snowy was so cruelly abused, we need to be very very patient with him.
Last night, I prayed with Feli that Snowy would start to eat and take his medicine.
This morning, Bert fed Snowy banana with dry dog food hidden inside plus his itchy pill. He ate it up. Bert put it on his dish, but he picked it up and placed it on the floor to eat. At least it's an improvement. Last time he flat refused to touch food placed on the dish.
The breakthrough was at 5pm today. I noticed Snowy licking his lips. It wasn't time for his dinner yet, but I tried putting some dry food pellet into his dish. He wasn't interested. So I tried putting them on my palm and offered him. Snowy ate it up!! I then placed some on his dish again. This time he ate it from the dish!
Bert suggested trying can food. He had been reading up alot about dogs and some recommended trying can food. So we quickly walked down to the nearest supermarket to get it. We bought Pedigree Beef (700g) and Caesar Lamb (50g).
Later at 7+pm Bert gave Snowy 2 spoons of Beef with the itchy pill on the dish. Snowy licked everything up till the dish was squeaky clean! We quickly scooped in till 1/4 of the can, mixed in the 2ml antibotics and balance of the dry food and mixed it up coarsely and guess what? Snowy ate EVERYTHING off the dish!! What a breakthrough! He ate food, his medicine was taken, and it was taken from his dish!! I said a thank you prayer tonight with Feli for His quick answer to our prayers. At least Snowy can get his skin condition healed faster and have less itch.
We have to take each day at a time. Taking care of a dog is like having another baby all over again. We have lesser freedom as we need to work our schedule around Snowy now. He needs his meals, his walks, his playtime and pet hugs everyday! We need to make quite a bit of adjustment to accommodate him. Not sure if we made the right decision to adopt him. Feli told me not to always look on the negative side. The positive was at least now I've befriended 3 people whereas in the past, we don't know anyone in this new neighbourhood. Bless her little soul, she is right. Bert too told me pets are not all just give from our part. They are also great stress-relievers and good for human's well being. At the moment I have mental stress rather than mental relief.
Love Theresa
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