Thanks for all the tips guys. She has been eating fine up until today, other than one skipped breakfast yesterday. It might be too much tramadol, she has been consistently having it every six hours for the last four or five dosages, rather than at least one 8-10 hour break during the night. The drugs wear off every six hours, maybe I need to do half a tablet every six hours. She is eating the peanut butter that the tramadol / rimadyl is in, but I'm going to switch that up with melted cheese or icecream, she is becoming very suspicious and sick of peanut butter.

Anyway, she ended up eating a cheese slice or two, then had the rimadyl. The vet was very adamant that if she didn't have food with it, then she wasn't to have it. Maybe because it gave her tummy upsets after the biopsy. But hey, she is overdue to poop so if a slight tummy upset encourages that it might not be the worst thing in the world. 

Fentanyl patch is coming off tomorrow I presume at the vet check up, so we'll be back to square one on the drug regime anyway. Hopefully her appetite is back ASAP! 

Sneaky lil Meg, you're probably right that she is being suspicious of and not wanting to eat any of her food! She would only eat the cheese from Tim, not me, the evil drug wench! Tim went to find pumpkin filler today, closest thing in the supermarket was pumpkin, sweet potato and lamb baby food. Turns out Australia isn't big on pumpkin pies! She wasn't interested in it anyway, will try again tonight, and offer it during our own dinner, when she is hopefully a little more hungry and hopefully thinks it is safe tasty human food.

She is drinking more than usual (mind you it is warmer than usual) and she is peeing 3 or 4 times a day. She has been asleep and not looking in any pain all afternoon, so that's the main thing. Poop will come, and if it hasn't by tomorrow I'm sure the vets will have something to get everything moving. 

We'll get the appetite and drug balance sorted! I can't believe how much I've napped this weekend, yet I'm still so tired! Very true that is an exhausting time, and you're right, exhaustion means chocolate! Everything means chocolate time for me 

Chocolate is a great stress reliever! 

Meg reluctantly had her afternoon tramadol with peanut butter, some new natural stuff which is a lot more runnier than what we used to have so I was relieved she didn't spit the tramadol out. 

No food other than that since I last posted, will offer her dinner soon and if worse comes to worse, she can have the scraps from my own dinner, because I'm a total paranoid mum who thinks she'll starve from not eating today, even though she goes off her food for a day or two at least once every two months if not more . She hasn't even looked at kibble since coming home, tried giving her meaty dog food but nope.

Our vet didn't seem keen on gabapentin and basically said he'd consider it if she was having severe phantom limb issues? To be honest that's her main pain issue other than general "what the heck I have three legs my god it is hard to hop" pain, which she only has post hopping. 

Thanks Fiona & Jim! You're right, it seems too much tramadol too close together was a contributing factor to Meg not wanting to eat. I was hopeful we'd be able to ease her back onto her normal dog food by now, but that was very wishful thinking, probably won't happen for another few weeks! I hope Mistletoe starts eating properly again soon, it must be so frustrating with a big doggo!

I think Meg will be just like Otis, she already bolts around the house between her different beds (why do we have two bigs but six or seven beds?). I figured it was just an urgency to lay back down again but hey if she keeps up that pace so be it!