Thank you everyone for your comments and well-wishes for Quaid. Within a few days of starting on his antibiotics his appetite returned and he's back to his normal self.
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| happily grazing |
You wouldn't know anything was wrong at all, except that I keep shoving a syringe in his mouth twice a day. Quaid will not eat meds in his feed no matter how I disguise it. And I've tried everything to make it palatable (even in a syringe): apple sauce, molasses, sugar, maple syrup, etc. All it does it make us a sticky mess so I now just dissolve the antibiotic in a small bolus of warm water and squirt it to the back of his troat.
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| prepping the drugs |
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| locked and loaded, lol |
Quaid is really good about me administering his drugs. He clearly doesn't like it and yet he still accepts that I'm doing it. I'm not sure where Carmen and I'd be by now. I don't even need a halter. I try to do it fast and matter of factly and not make a big deal out of it. I find that usually makes things worse.
One thing I've really learned with Quaid is drug administration. And how to take a temperature. Poor guy. He's had to have a course of medication every year since he turned two. Hopefully at some point this won't happen anymore.
