A little later that night, after I took Lexie out to pee, I decided to try feeding her the rest of the canned food. Once again, she licked and nibbled at it until there was only a tiny bit left, and I was very pleased. However, when I tried to feed her her evening dose of pain medication in a couple of Greenies Pill Pockets, which she normally loves, she turned up her nose and wouldn't eat them. I decided to wait a few minutes, then tried again, but she still wouldn't eat them. I tried putting the pills in a piece of the crab meat she loved so much the night before, but she turned her nose up at that, as well. Finally, when Justin returned home a couple hours later, he managed to get her to eat her Tramadol by putting the pills in some tuna. We were also able to coax Lexie onto the couch, although her back legs were so weak that I had to hoist her up.
When I got up around 8:00 this morning, I got Lexie up and ready to take her outside to pee. However, she stopped at the front door and seemed very hesitant to go down the front steps. This was new. She hasn't had any problems going down the front steps ever since she came home from MedVet. She seems very weak right now, though, and I think she was afraid of stumbling down the steps. She finally came down, although she used a pretty inventive new "side-step" technique, but hey, whatever works.
After she came back inside, after much coaxing to get her to walk back up the steps, I tried feeding her a half a can of food. She nibbled at it a little bit, but barely ate more than about 1/4 of a can. She needed to take her antibiotics and pain medication, but no matter what I tried, she wouldn't eat them. Finally, I decided to wake Justin up to see if he had any ideas. (Lexie was trembling a little and I worried that she was in pain, which may be causing her weakness and lack of appetite.) Justin put her medications inside cut up pieces of hot dogs, which thankfully she ate without any protest. Then, Justin laid down beside Lexie to pet her a little, and a few minutes later I found my two babies cuddled up together sound asleep:
A little later, Justin and I decided to go to Petco to see if we could find a type of dog food that was suggested to me on my previous post, and to see if anyone at the pet store might have any other suggestions for helping Lexie's appetite. Well, they didn't have exactly what we were looking for, but the Petco employee suggested we try Vita Gravy over Lexie's regular dog food. I also bought two sample sizes of Natural Balance dog food rolls to see if she'll like them.
When we returned home, Justin tried to take Lexie out to pee, but once again she hesitated at the front steps. In fact, it took her so long to go down the front steps that as soon as she reached the bottom, she just peed right there on the sidewalk. Justin tried walking her around a little bit, but she was very shaky, and at one point she kind of just gave up and laid down in the grass. She also wouldn't eat when we tried to feed her after she came back inside.
So, at this point I'm very worried. It would be one thing if she just wasn't eating very much, but it's the fact that she's so weak that's upsetting me. Justin and I are going to take Lou up to his parents' house a little later this evening. I'm hoping that her pain medication will be worn off enough at that point that she'll feel like eating a little. I'm also hoping that going on a little adventure to their house without her sisters might perk her up some. Either way, I'm probably going to call MedVet tomorrow to let them know that she's not eating and she's getting weak. After all, they still haven't called me with the biopsy results from her mastectomies yet.
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