02-29-2012, 08:08 AM
Hopefully the vet will give her some food paste (food in a tube). After surgery our dog wouldn't eat and the vet said that we could get food paste. It sounded too medicinal. However after 2 days of not eating, (we tried everything) we finally broke down and gave him food paste and wow - he loved it. The vet said to dab it on his muzzle and he would lick it off. We were smearing that stuff all over him and after two days I had it on my finger and he licked it off. We couldn't believe it. We're still laughing about that 20 yrs later. All that smearing and he would have eaten it off our finger. Sometimes they just need a little encouragement and the food paste did the trick.