Saturday, January 07, 2006
Uh-oh...Tink stumbling around her cage...
Oh dear, I think something is wrong with her, though I can't really point to anything specific, except she seems excessively clumsy all of a sudden.
Well, and she seems to be keeping very low to the ground, too -- like she doesn't have the strength to get over the little humps of bedding, or pull herself up to her normal crouch for eating. Instead she's laying very flat, and only nibbling at things which are right on the ground. And earlier, she was just sitting in a puddle of pee, in her ball. Usually she rolls herself away from her puddles.
I wonder -- should I take her to the vet? Or would that be as useless as it has been in the past?
I tested her pee just this afternoon, and her glucose reads off the chart, as usual, but her ketones are normal (which is different --usually her ketones are really high, too). She isn't on pedialyte or anything -- just fennugreek and greens and her homemade seed mix. Poops are normal, too. I fed her some warmed, diluted chicken broth -- just to make sure she was getting some liquid and nutrition in her -- but other than that, I can't think what else to do.
Very worried....
Well, and she seems to be keeping very low to the ground, too -- like she doesn't have the strength to get over the little humps of bedding, or pull herself up to her normal crouch for eating. Instead she's laying very flat, and only nibbling at things which are right on the ground. And earlier, she was just sitting in a puddle of pee, in her ball. Usually she rolls herself away from her puddles.
I wonder -- should I take her to the vet? Or would that be as useless as it has been in the past?
I tested her pee just this afternoon, and her glucose reads off the chart, as usual, but her ketones are normal (which is different --usually her ketones are really high, too). She isn't on pedialyte or anything -- just fennugreek and greens and her homemade seed mix. Poops are normal, too. I fed her some warmed, diluted chicken broth -- just to make sure she was getting some liquid and nutrition in her -- but other than that, I can't think what else to do.
Very worried....
