Re: night two

[Gina Heitz <brier@oregonsbest.com>]

At 07:38 AM 9/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
> I can't believe it -
> night two with only a couple of whimpers!
> Peggy AKA the brat :)
>  
> Question - Katie's poops look fine, but she's
> straining pretty hard - puppy grunts and all.  Is there something I
> should do?


Hi Peggy,

Glad to hear that night two was as well uneventful.  The kibble
should be enough of an laxative but perhaps not.  You might give her
a carrot today as a treat, she will play with it for the most part and it
will come out in chunks [the other end] as dogs don't process them well,
which is why I had you guys pulverize them in the meat balls, but extra
fiber is always a good idea when one is thinking constipation.  Also
get some volume of fluids into her, chicken broth, yes good old 
mothers cure, "Jewish penicillin" heals all that 
ails. :-)  Just warm up some broth and set it down, she will
probably suck up a lot so be prepared for several trips out.  I did
this with the litter to be sure that they were getting lots of fluids
with the meds and hey it does work!