The thing that had been worrying me most about Sparkle was that she didn’t appear to be eating during the day but this morning she joined in with the mid morning spinach then she went to the dish of mash. I have been putting in two dishes of mash each day just to try to tempt her and this was the first day that we saw her eat from it. She even pecked Emerald out of her way.<\/p>\n
She is much more difficult to pick up for her medicine in the morning and this morning she struggled when we put it in her beak (this also shows she is gaining strength). We don’t want to put her through the stress of this but she wouldn’t take it from food before. Now that she is eating again we have decided that tomorrow morning we will put her in the cat box with her medicine on some fish as this is what she seems to like to eat the most.<\/p>\n
She needs to take her medicine for four more days to the complete the ten day course so I measured out her medicine to see if there was enough to waste another day’s dose if this doesn’t work. There are two extra days dose so we will give this a go tomorrow.<\/p>\n
I listened to her breathing and could no longer hear the bubbling noise. We decided that as she was eating again we wouldn’t need to put her in the cat box in the evening.<\/p>\n
She was preening and moving around more during the day and also joined in with the bedtime sunflower hearts. She perched up next to Topaz at bedtime. I hadn’t really noticed that much of a friendship between these two before now but since Sparkle has been unwell they have spent a lot of time sitting together which is quite heart warming.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Sparkle and Topaz at bedtime<\/p><\/div>\n
I am now feeling much more positive about Sparkle. I really do think she is now on the mend at last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The thing that had been worrying me most about Sparkle was that she didn’t appear to be eating during the day but this morning she joined in with the mid morning spinach then she went to the dish of mash. … Continue reading