Last night, Jon (who is staying over for Conference weekend) mentioned that Jaquie was looking a little thin, and I was inclined to agree.\u00a0 When Jim and I were upstairs later, getting ready for bed, the subject came up again.\u00a0 We had noticed that she had missed some easy jumps in the last week or so (scraping up my leg on one of them), and that she has seemed an odd combination of physically placid but more “talkative” than normal.\u00a0 None of these individual symptoms had seemed alarming, but when we began to consider them together, we started to worry.<\/p>\n
We wondered if she was hungry, but Jim said he had checked before coming upstairs and her food dish was full.\u00a0 Then he asked me when was the last time I actually put food in her bowl.\u00a0 When I answered, “Over a week ago, I think,” his eyes went wide with concern.\u00a0 He couldn’t remember the last time he had filled her dish, either.\u00a0 He thought I had been doing it, while I thought he had.\u00a0 This, apparently, is the downside to the whoever-notices-it-empty-fills-it system.<\/p>\n
I gave her a couple of treats I keep in our room that she adores, and she gobbled them up.\u00a0 They were hard, so that ruled out anything wrong with her teeth.\u00a0 Then Jim took her downstairs to examine the food dish in question.\u00a0 Apparently, some of the hard food had gotten wet and was clumped, so he dumped it all out, and gave her all new food and water.\u00a0 She wasn’t much interested in the new food either, though.\u00a0 He then offered her some tuna, and she was willing to eat a little of that – not entirely encouraging, however, since she’s usually willing to eat a lot<\/strong> of tuna.<\/p>\n Poor thing – she must have just been starving for a week!\u00a0 She had a little more tuna with some dry food mixed in this morning.\u00a0 I’m just hoping that the wet, old food was the culprit and that she’ll bounce back quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night, Jon (who is staying over for Conference weekend) mentioned that Jaquie was looking a little thin, and I was inclined to agree.\u00a0 When Jim and I were upstairs later, getting ready for bed, the subject came up again.\u00a0 We had noticed that she had missed some easy jumps in the last week or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14],"tags":[232,31,233],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-aW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}