Sweetpea's healing corner...

Morning update:
This morning Sweetpea is keeping very much to herself... still feeling poorly! Poor girl! But she is eating small amounts every two hours... about a teaspoon to tablespoon at a time of boiled lean mince and rice. She seems to prefer the mince and rice to the boiled chicken and rice.

I fed her during the night and took her outside for water and a toilet break.  She did a lovely big firm poop first thing this morning and a good sized piddle, so I believe she's truly on the mend now that she's home. She's lost lots of weight and is very weak still...

Oh how we love her! 

So many people have called, WhatsApp'ed, Facebook messages, emailed, donated, etc. it's all just a blur now and I seriously can't keep up with my thoughts, or my housework, or my garden and office work which have all fallen behind.

Especially yesterday with bringing Sweetpea home; it was very scary knowing the Vet took her off of her Intravenous fluids to let her come home because he felt it would help her with her possible fears, anxiety, and depression... She wasn't eating much there and maybe not at all.
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Thankfully after a few hours home she started eating very small amounts, much to our delight and relief! She always looks very sick after she's eaten, and then she goes into seclusion to be alone which is so unlike her... but after a while, she relaxes and goes to sleep and there's been no vomiting thankfully. We're continuing to encourage her to eat and drink two hourly...

Caring, Loving people have also been praying for her from all over the world.

Thank you for your prayers and love. We are so grateful to everyone who has contributed in one way or another which has been such a blessing to us all and especially helped me to stay strong for Sweetpea, my son and our other little dog, Trixie.

Today, Sweetpea has found a darkish corner in my room to be by herself, so I put her bed there. Around midday, I went to check on her and this is what I found...

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Andrew sitting on the carpet quietly with her, so that she knows she is loved and not alone in her suffering. How special is that photo... 🥰


Afternoon Update:
This afternoon, my daughter came especially to visit Sweetpea.  Sweetpea was still in her healing corner when my daughter came in.  Usually she's wild with excitement when my daughter visits, but she's not feeling well, so she stayed where she was, so my daughter visited her in her healing corner and they sat together by themselves for at least half an hour. They looked so sweet together, I had to take a photo... another beautiful one that I will always cherish, because all my dogs have adored my daughter, so I knew that Sweetpea would feel a whole lot happier because she visited her.

It was amazing to see how much Sweetpea perked up once my daughter had visited.  
This afternoon, Sweetpea ate a good tablespoon of her mince and rice and even took a real stroll around the yard afterwards for the first time since she arrived home from the animal hospital.  

We are still offering small amounts of food to her every two hours and she's drinking water on her own, but if she does not get up around the time we feed her, we carry her out to her water dish to make sure she's having some fluids regularly and moving around a bit.  We let her find her own way back to her bed, or wherever she wants to be and feels most comfortable.  

I am so grateful to the Vet and his staff, and everyone who has helped Sweetpea to get batter.  I'm so grateful for all the Gifts of Love that have been given and shared in one way or another. I am grateful for the people who genuinely love and care for animals... and those who seem to really understand and care for us and how we have been feeling also... and I'm grateful for my children who have always had such loving hearts towards our pets and most of all, I am so grateful to Heaven, and that we have our little Sweetpea home again and that she's alive and recovering well... I am so-so-so very grateful! 

~ Panayiota