[Jenniferlove]

Thanks to you all, you are lovely. I appreciate each of your comments.

Our dog is doing a little bit better since yesterday, but today she was at the vet and he had a hard time finding a vein for the catheter (to give her fluids) and had to prick her many times, which was really awful for her and for us too.

When my cat got really sick (he got out one day from pushing the screen window open & got bit by something) he refused to drink liquids. He was literally dying before my eyes. I had to get a needless syringe and inject water into his mouth all day. I FORCED him to drink water. I only gave him wet food too and added pure chicken broth to it (no additives or salt) to make it even more liquid-based. This helped him through those horrible days before the vets FINALLY figured out he had an abscess and drained it/gave him proper antibiotics. Before they figured that out they said "He's just getting old". Ha! He was acting like a kitten a week before that!