Pug Hugs for Louie

Well it's 5 days post surgery and lil Louie is healing like a true trooper!!

This morning she literally dived into her tent to get her toy and thrashed around in there until it fell over and collapsed with her in it. 😆

She has only lost 200g since surgery. She isn't eating that well at all, which (still) proves extremely difficult for me to get her daily meds into her. I have tried a whole list of foods that she is allowed small amounts of, but she is so picky that it isn't really working yet. Her anti epilepsy pills must taste so bitter that she knows when I have crushed them into her food, she knows when I've wrapped them in a succulent (tiny) morsel of her liver food (the one she hates), and she knows when I'm coming for her to try and gently pop them down her throat because she tries to do a sore pugs run. 🙄 on the other hand, she LOVES her lactulose syrup and quite happily drinks that from her syringe.

Her lack of eating has proven so hard that the vet today has given me injectable antibiotics to give her daily, as I can't get them in her food. Which is such a relief. I do however need to continue somehow tricking her with the anti epileptics. We will get there 💪🏽

She is now sleeping back in her own crate. She only slept with me for the first 2 nights, and I think that was purely for my worry (good job the husband was away). 😉 she has stopped whimpering and is not needing her pain relief. Interesting to note, her pain relief is actually human codeine. 🤔

Yesterday we went for a trip to visit Grandad and forgot her lead. We thought she would stay close because she hasn't had much energy, then all of a sudden she took off!!! She had a 15 minute bolting run. Like she does after a bath! She totally went crazy. Running and zipping around. Didn't seem to worry her tummy at all. We were obviously more worried than she was!! She was fine. Release of energy must've felt good.

Her dressing is off now and her stitches are healing great. Not sure you'd want to see a photo of that 😬. She has that gorgeous a-la-cheesy smell now as I'm not allowed to bath her, so baby wipe wash down those puggy rolls is all I can do.

So all in all this lil lady is doing fab. We are so happy to have her home, snoring, farting, nicking of with slippers and knickers. 😊

We are very lucky that she is such a fighter and so so resilient.

Thanks again to everyone for your continuous messages asking about her. She is one lucky puggle to have so many people care!!

💖💖

Julie