Y’all are amazing ❤️

I have, and it’s not a realistic option for me. No judgement against vegans, vegetarians, or omnivores. We all have to live our best lives the best way we can.

The amount of simping, misinformation and just plain disregard for animal rights, human rights and environmentalism is absolutely disgusting.

Baking cinnamon rolls while staying home.....

Elvira isn’t doing well folks. CW: bodily fluids, animal in pain, negative post. Long post ahead. Friday, March 13: She started vomiting at 3:30am. It was white, and chunky. We took her on her usual walk, in hopes that her eating grass would help. She ate grass, threw up a couple of times. We gave her breakfast, and she threw up five times: chunky white with food, and overtime with yellow bile. I took the day off to look after her. We took her to the vet and had x-rays done. The vet could not find anything discernible in the x-rays. We went home with anti-nausea meds for her and an anti-nausea shot, thinking it was over. She had “gurgle gut”, meaning she had gas in her intestines that was making noises and painful for her. She seemed to be getting a little better. By the evening, she was not. She began drooling heavily and heaving. We took her to an urgent night clinic. More x-rays were done, along with blood panels and cat scans. Again, they didn’t show anything conclusive as far as what caused this. Her organs were functioning, her temperature was good, but she was severely dehydrated and hungry (despite our attempts to nourish her). She had diarrhea as well that was bloody. She threw up a TON of fluid at the clinic. Her stomach was full of fluid that the staff pumped out through her nose instead of her throat. She was given pain and anti-nausea meds again. She stayed overnight and we picked her up at 7:30am the next day. Saturday, March 14: We took her back to our vet at 9am. They did more x-rays; both vets available triple checked them; still nothing conclusive. She was given more meds, and we were sent home with more meds: anti-nausea (another one), anti-diarrhea and something for her stomach (for stomach acid?). It took hours after the meds were given that she would eat. We did something we never thought we would do and bought chicken to boil for her. She ate a little bit late at the night, and drank water. She was weak, and slept a lot. She went on walks with diarrhea. We had to clean up her butt, and constantly do many loads of laundry and deep clean our floors, couches, pillows, etc. Sunday, March 15: Continued with the meds. She didn’t eat and drink again till the evening. We got her more stuff: enriched goat’s milk with probiotics, chicken broth, fish broth and simple chicken products from the pet store. They were kind enough to give us advice about getting her hydration up, and even snuck us some products to help. She was brighter and more alert. She loved going on walks like normal. Her tail kind of wagged, and we got the occasional kissy (she is a VERY kissy dog with us). Her diarrhea was a bit under control, and she was able to at least go to the bathroom with continued butt cleanings and washing of laundry/furniture. She smelled horrible, so we gave her a bath as well. She was not fond of it, but like with everything she tolerated it. We had to shove pills down her throat at the time limits (every 12 hours, and 24 hours for one), and she tolerated everything patiently. She ate more that evening than the evening before. Monday, March 16: We gave her more meds in the mornings and small walks every few hours (including the wee hours of the morning). She was still uninterested in food and water for the most part. We thought that it just took a while for the meds to help. Around noon, my husband rushed her to the vet again because she started drooling and heaving once more. I had to rush from my parents’ house to the vet. She also threw up fluid again in my husband’s car on the way there. The vet is now keeping her for a couple of days. What we know right now: Elvira’s guts are inflamed. The vet did not feed her today, for fear that her intestines were too inflamed to deal with the stress. She is on an IV and has had different shots of meds to help her with pain, gas, diarrhea, etc. She had more bloody diarrhea but the vomiting stopped. More x-rays still do not show what she may have eaten to cause this. They cannot consider an endoscope or surgery at this time because she has lost 5 pounds over the weekend (she weights 24 pounds, so this is a MAJOR weight loss). Going under anesthesia would be out of the question at this time. Tomorrow they will start trying to feed her, as well as keep her under heavy observation to get her fluids and strength back up. The hopeful goal will be to get her to a point where they can use an endoscope on her, and see if they can discover what caused this issue. The next steps, as it has been described to us several times, is using graspers or going to surgery to remove whatever it may be that is in her system. How am I doing? I cannot express to anyone how I am feeling. It is too big for words. I am devastated, I am heartbroken, I am in emotional turmoil and agony. I have broken down so many times since this has happened but especially today. My husband, though more stoic, is also suffering similarly. I know many of you understand this pain, and these feelings we have for our fur babies. The people in my life are being incredibly kind, patient and loving to us, and giving us all the support they can. Both our parents are helping us financially. (This post is NOT meant to obtain funds; we are fine.) At this point, as much as it would be nice to know what she could have eaten to get into this state, I do not care anymore. All I want is for her to be happy and healthy. I want the heartache to end. I want my baby to be at home, with us, curled up in her blankets and snoring loudly. I want her to chase her ball, to beg us for potato chips, to sniff every single leaf as she always does on her walks. I want her to pout at us, to make her weird noises at us (grunts and snorts), I want her to SHOWER us in her kissies. I want to hold her, I want to kiss her just as much as she kisses us, I want to cuddle her and tell her everything will be okay. That we are here for her, and we are fighting for her with everything we have. That we will not give up on her and that we love her to the end of time and back. Forever. No matter what. I want this living nightmare to be over. I don’t want the shadows of doubt and depression taking over my mind. I have always been a pessimist, and this is one of the absolute worst possible things that fate and life can throw at me. Please. No matter what it is you may or may not do. Please keep her in your thoughts. Not for me, not for my husband, but for Elvira.

Thank you everyone for your well wishes, thoughts and love. ❤️

Her new collar arrived; we got purple instead of red this time!