Message Number: YG6000 | New FHL Archives Search
From: Karen Purcell, DVM
Date: 2001-07-31 17:06:00 UTC
Subject: Re: [Ferret-Health-list] Refusing to eat and fighting it
hard.

Margie,

> We are trying to force feed Bubba. But he clenches his teeth and
> fights it every step of the way. The diet is the same one, he always
> likes. Chicken baby food, pedialyte, honey, and Deliver 2.0. He is
> on Pepcid A/C orally and Baytril by injection.

Get rid of the honey, see if you can get some sucralfate and ulcer
treatment - he has an upset tummy. The pepcid is probably not enough
if he is reacting that strongly.

Just my $0.02,
Trena, the partying greenrider, well-known in song
story (or at least rumor)
aka Dr. Karen