Skin split as she swallowed...

[RB420]

Mark i dont kno what to tell you except you are a genuinly great person. I hate to say it but iwould never be able to go to the extents you have to try and nurse a pet back to health....not for lack of caring or patients but lack of funds. You are truely a man who loves his pets! i wish you and all of your animals the very best. please keep us posted on the situation

[chas*e]

Polysporin is the answer and hope for the best..if it is a deep split then buy some #4 sutures and sew it up...get some help to do this but keep it clean ..paper towel the enclosure ..no substrate

[Mark Jones]

Just the skin split. We've used an polysporin spray and then closed the wound using a liquid Band-Aid. Believe it or not, she seems to still be quite active. Just saw her go to her water for a drink moments ago.

As soon as possible we are going to have another fecal float done. There has to be something wrong, like a tough parasite, (tapeworm maybe?), that is causing her to be so slow at growing and to have weak skin. She eats tons and has been de-wormed twice. Still, has to be something...

[ravensgait]

Have to take my hat off to you that's for sure.

I hate to say it but from what you've said it could be an organ problem IE heart or Liver. Happens at times in all animals that for whatever reason one of the organs just doesn't work right or grow properly. Had a little BRB that out grew his heart, he was never quit right but when he hit 3 and a half months he just went down hill fast. The animal just doesn't seem to thrive... Hope I'm wrong about your little one. If your Vet has a sonogram and doesn't charge to much for it have them take a look.


Randy

[Mark Jones]

I had wondered if that was possible... I've had Dobermans, back when we bred them, that would sometimes just not make it no matter what. I had a necropsy(sp?) done ion one and it was a mal-formed liver.

It very well could be that...

BTW: She'd going downhill a bit now. We'll not give up just yet though.