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Hello Jadablue  -- I don't come here anymore either since my boy is healthy now & we beat the triaditis.  Your Dallas sounds much like what my Spencer was doing. We eventually had to have a feed tube put in his neck to get food to his stomach so he'd put weight on but once that began to happen...

​Aaah, I'm so sorry to hear you lost your Piper...& in this way. Any loss is hard but when they're ill & suffering, it just adds to the terribleness of it all. We just lost our Milo to 'system shutdown' in May. There wasn't anything we could do. We tried all kinds of things but he just slowly...

Hi beaches4me -- yes please, do as Jim suggests!!!  If you're on Facebook then go to the IBDKitties page. I am there also. You will get all the info & all the help you'll need with your little girl. She sounds like she's getting stressed from her malady, but that too can be reversed if you can...

Jim - Spencer is taking a pain med as well but I'm not sure what it is. I will try to find out what it is. It's a tiny pill that we have to crush into powder & then add water & administer that way. You're so fortunate your little girl hasn't had to be entubed. The spot where Spencers tube goes...

Denice - we learned that Spencer wasn't going to eat after we had him about 5-6 days so syringe feeding was the first thing we tried after all 'tempting foods' failed. Since I've never had to deal with anything like this before, other than my two day-olds being bottle fed, this was all trial &...

Thanks so much, Denice, for your speedy response & encouragement. I'm pretty sure Spencers problems are directly related to his weight which when he was brought into the shelter topped the scales at 22.46 pounds! He was incredibly obese plus he'd lived with the same family his entire life. So...

I am one of those roller coaster riders too, it's beginning to look like. We rescued Spencer from our local shelter because as an advocate, I was afraid he'd get sick if he stayed in any longer. He did. But URI is very treatable so we brought him home. The trouble showed up when we couldn't get...