I just picked Casey up some more Prednisone and I forgot to have them flavor it. :doh: She already didn't like taking it, but I could get her to stomach it. I just gave her her dose and she was gagging and foaming at the mouth due to how icky it tasted. (And I don't blame her - the smell of it alone screams, "EW!" to me! Like the mint toothpaste dentists use combined with nasty cherry cough syrup. *shudders*)
Is it all right if I mix her dose of Pred with some Ferretone? That way it'll have some flavor and not just taste like nastiness. (She gets the liquid Pred, I syringe it to her.) I don't see why it would be a problem mixing some Ferretone with it, but I wanted to check and make sure. Would a 50/50 ratio be good, or how should I mix it?
And Casey is doing fine. We just upped her dose to .25 mLs twice a day today. She improved greatly on .2 mLs twice a day, so we're going to see if adding that extra mL will make even more of an improvement. She's eating great and her energy level is almost back to normal. She still doesn't like wrestling with Dameon, but other than that I'd say she's acting 90% normal now.
My vet has been AMAZING and has really stepped up to the plate. She is super excited to have a ferret patient (although she isn't happy about the circumstances - she adores Casey) and she's ordered textbooks pertaining to ferret health and has gotten into contact with an exotic vet she attended school with who is practicing down in Texas, I think, for consultation purposes. I am super comfortable intrusting my ferts to her care and I thankful that she stepped up to the challenge of having something new and different instead of just saying, "Oh, they're exotics, that's not my field".
I'm taking Dameon in for a blood panel on Thursday, just to make sure everything is going okay with him. I don't think anything is wrong with him and I'm fully expecting normal results, but if he is going to end up with any illnesses, I'd like to catch them before he starts showing symptoms. So fingers crossed for normal bloodwork!
Is it all right if I mix her dose of Pred with some Ferretone? That way it'll have some flavor and not just taste like nastiness. (She gets the liquid Pred, I syringe it to her.) I don't see why it would be a problem mixing some Ferretone with it, but I wanted to check and make sure. Would a 50/50 ratio be good, or how should I mix it?
And Casey is doing fine. We just upped her dose to .25 mLs twice a day today. She improved greatly on .2 mLs twice a day, so we're going to see if adding that extra mL will make even more of an improvement. She's eating great and her energy level is almost back to normal. She still doesn't like wrestling with Dameon, but other than that I'd say she's acting 90% normal now.
My vet has been AMAZING and has really stepped up to the plate. She is super excited to have a ferret patient (although she isn't happy about the circumstances - she adores Casey) and she's ordered textbooks pertaining to ferret health and has gotten into contact with an exotic vet she attended school with who is practicing down in Texas, I think, for consultation purposes. I am super comfortable intrusting my ferts to her care and I thankful that she stepped up to the challenge of having something new and different instead of just saying, "Oh, they're exotics, that's not my field".
I'm taking Dameon in for a blood panel on Thursday, just to make sure everything is going okay with him. I don't think anything is wrong with him and I'm fully expecting normal results, but if he is going to end up with any illnesses, I'd like to catch them before he starts showing symptoms. So fingers crossed for normal bloodwork!