Recent content by DozerCooley

Hi all! Dozer is doing fantastic! She had a follow up appointment yesterday and everyone was extremely impressed with how well she's doing. She's got her appetite back, she's going to the bathroom regularly and she's back to snooping around the house with the rest of the crew all day. All in all...

Hi guys! Great news coming from Dozer.. she's pooped 3 days in a row now and seems to be getting quite the little appetite back!! :) She goes for her post-op vet appointment this Thursday and she'll be retested then to see if the sepsis has gone away fully yet or not and hopefully we'll be told...

Dozer seems to be making slow but steady progress. She's been sunning herself most of the day and only comes out to walk around a little bit and go sun herself some more. She usually eats a small amount each night after her back scute soaking and bandage changes but today she was actually up and...

Ohh good idea..i actually think we had ordered one of those for her when we first got her. I'll dig it out. Thanks!

We do plan on having it sent out as of right now we've been too caught up in just ensuring our little girl stays alive and on the mend that we haven't gotten around to sending it out. We have it right now just in a sterile glass jar. Definitely want to know what it's composed of in order to help...

Any suggesting? It needs to be soft and clean as she has incisions that are healing and also 4 metal plates holding her shell together that are probably not all that comfortable to lay on so we want something nice and soft. We have towels down for her but she always ends up flipping them up onto...

We have an enclosure yes but she currently can't be in it because her incisions need to be kept super sterile (meaning no dirt, no mulch, no anything that is in her enclose) so our best option was to give her our spare bathroom. There is baseboard heating in there, also a small space heater and...

What does this usually happen? And what changes should I be looking for? Thanks!

I posted this question to Dozer's thread (Bladder Stone Surgery) but wanted to post it again to possibly get more opinions...So we rescued Dozer exactly one month ago and at the time were told she was a boy..since then we've been told by like 4 different people/vet/previous owner/pet store...

ALSO..last question..i hope ..we've been told like 4 different times by 4 different people/vet/previous owner/pet store manager that Dozer is a boy, then no Dozer is a girl then no definitely a boy and on and on... any guesses guys?? Is our little fighter a boy or girl??

Also quick question for everyone: We obviously don't know Dozer's full history as she is a rescue and was clearly not properly cared for so we don't know what parts of what we've been told are truthful and what aren't but.. when we first got Dozer exactly a month ago now (and before she had her...

Yes, she has a couple feeding stones but at this point she is not eating very well and refuses any food off of her stones. She'll only randomly eat if we sneak something right in front of her as she's walking or if we hand feed her. Thanks for the advice though - I definitely agree but desperate...

This is Dozer this morning before I left for work. She seemed pretty comfy sunning herself under her lamp. She seems to be doing okay - no better but not any worse either. She spends most of her time just laying in the heat but will get up and walk around the house a bit when I pick her up and...

Someone found a little energy and a small appetite after her evening soak and bandage change. She didn't stay up long but we'll take any progress we can get. Baby steps..thanks everyone!

Afternoon update on Dozer: She went in and got fluids and an injection to help get her digestive system get restarted this morning. She pooped a very small amount on the ride home so this seems to be promising! We have a new protocol of soaking her back end once a day (as we can't soak her like...