Updating Little GiGi

Wow. What a difference a week makes. From a very sick little girl last Saturday who barely had the energy to crawl out from under a blanket, to a little spitfire who has a ton of energy and really seems to be enjoying life.

She's had 7 days of Doxycycline and Prednisone. She's eating a bit less than she was when she got here (she was up to 1 one cup a day - a HUGE amount for a little girl), but she's also getting the Miracle Food combo of boiled eggs and chicken livers. Some yogurt to help her digestion along in the presence of antibiotics and this girl has gone from lethargic and just the other side of skin and bones, to happy, energetic and 9.4 pounds.

I really would like to see her at 10 lbs before I decide how much more weight she needs. She's one of these dogs who actually looks like she weighs less than she does. She has sunken in spots on either side of her skull right above the eye sockets, and I'd like to see those filling in.

Her breath is still bad, but not anything like it was, and the drooling is less, too. I'm hoping another week to 10 days of antibiotics will kick the majority of the infection and those two side effects will improve too.

Not sure when she'll go in for bloodwork. I'd like to aim for somewhere around the 28th of this month. That will give her a full month on antibiotics, Pred and the Miracle Food. See where we are with the anemia. Nothing much can be done until that is under control.

Once it is, then this little girl will wave adios to Waco and head down to Houston. We're in no hurry to get rid of her, though. She's a sweetie and her personality is really beginning to shine.