<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I know, this will seem twisted, but when I read Pamela's subject line. I was wondering if she was considering which dog was the best to eat?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bassets would most likely be fatty and from what I know, a Labrador would be tough 😅 🤔 😬. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Feel free to not post.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S9+, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><br></div> 3. Getting a dog to eat (Pamela McQuade)<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">Message: 3<br dir="auto">Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 15:13:50 -0400<br dir="auto">From: Pamela McQuade <plmcquade@gmail.com><br dir="auto">To: Daily Drool Send <dailydrool@dailydrool.org><br dir="auto">Subject: [Dailydrool] Getting a dog to eat<br dir="auto">Message-ID:<br dir="auto"> <CAKhL9-RkE8oZyVYQayJMSCgdTPqHyvvrrDrQ6o0uhaBFma+7CA@mail.gmail.com><br dir="auto">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">My poor Horton has had diarrhea and trouble eating for a while now. It<br dir="auto">began when he started limping and went to the vet's for that. Initially I<br dir="auto">thought he was responding badly to one of the drugs he was on , so we<br dir="auto">stopped it, then started it again when he seemed to improve for a while.<br dir="auto">After restarting it, he began to have a poor appetite and then didn't want<br dir="auto">to eat at all, even when I stopped the offending medication again. My vet<br dir="auto">prescribed metronidazole, but when he wouldn't eat, she said not to give it<br dir="auto">to him.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">On top of this, my poor boy has had really nasty diarrhea. I think there<br dir="auto">may be blood in the stool, though two weeks ago, when he had seemed to<br dir="auto">improve, we did a fecal and he was fine.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">Yesterday we went to an emergency vet, spent about six hours waiting to see<br dir="auto">a vet, then was told he needed an ultrasound.. We had to leave him<br dir="auto">overnight because the guy who did the ultrasound was booked until the wee<br dir="auto">hours of the morning.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">The results of the ultrasound didn't show anything conclusive (isn't that a<br dir="auto">thrill?). They said something about his having some benign lumps, like the<br dir="auto">ones bassets commonly get on the outside, but they do not seem to be<br dir="auto">concerned it is cancer. His adrenal glands had something funny going on,<br dir="auto">but not enough that the ultrasound guy thought it was anything to<br dir="auto">worry about--just keep an eye on it, we were told.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">Because Horton is such a nervous boy, the ER vets had to treat him with<br dir="auto">medication to keep him calm, which evidently works against his eating well,<br dir="auto">so they sent him home this morning, telling us to feed him anything he<br dir="auto">liked in human food. I have given him Entyce and have metronidazole to give<br dir="auto">him when he eats.<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">I tried giving him chicken the other day, which he usually loves, but no<br dir="auto">go. Just now I gave him some ground beef, of which he ate a little but not<br dir="auto">enough to be considered a real meal . I will keep trying, but it's a real<br dir="auto">challenge..<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">Has anyone had such a situation with their basset? What do you all use to<br dir="auto">get a hound eating?<br dir="auto">Pam, food slave to the only current Dashing Basset<br dir="auto">-------------- next part --------------<br dir="auto">An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br dir="auto">URL: <http://lists.dailydrool.org/pipermail/dailydrool-dailydrool.org/attachments/20210726/7fc4217c/attachment-0001.html><br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">------------------------------<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">Subject: Digest Footer<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">_______________________________________________<br dir="auto">Dailydrool mailing list<br dir="auto">Dailydrool@lists.dailydrool.org<br dir="auto">http://lists.dailydrool.org/listinfo.cgi/dailydrool-dailydrool.org<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">------------------------------<br dir="auto"><br dir="auto">End of Dailydrool Digest, Vol 692, Issue 1<br dir="auto">******************************************<br dir="auto"></body></html>