So, Sonny was inside for ten days. It was an up and down time during which she was up and down both in weight and mood. On the third and fourth nights inside she ate some biscuits and managed to gain around 40gms. From then on she ate; a very little, some of the time and finally went on another hunger strike for the last few nights.
I was taking her out into her garden every day for about an hour of R'n'R and during these spells she seemed happy and content but once back inside she became increasingly grumpy in spite of initially seeming to enjoy the increased interaction and stimulation of having more human contact.
I decided yesterday; after Sonny bit me - the little brat, that she needed to go back outside. I'm struggling with the 'flu at the moment but needs must so I wobbled my way outside in the rain and rejigged her bedroom's insulation, installing her heatpad as part of the renovations. I popped her back into bed and left her to it. When I checked up on her after an hour or so I found her sitting in the doorway of her bedroom 'peering' around with her nose going frantically. She also had some company as Miss Effie had decided to crawl into the hutch to pay Sonny a visit. After much nose sniffing and a bit of confusion Sonny took her self back to bed and went back to sleep for the rest of the day.
I set up my IR camera near her ramp to hopefully help monitor whether she came 'out to play' or not.
As you can see, she did indeed get up and I 'caught' her at about 10pm and again at 5am. This reassures me that she isn't sitting in her hutch sulking and is hopefully out hunting as she once again refused to eat any of the food I left out for her.
This morning she is tucked up in her bedroom under her huge pile of fleecey blankets so she successfully found her way back into her bed, thank goodness. I'll stick my hand into her bed a bit later to assess how warm she is and hopefully, the heatpad will be enough to keep her comfy and awake so that we don't see a big drop in her weight again.
This is all totally uncharted territory for us and we just have to make it up as we go along which is a bit scary to say the least. I do feel though, that it is probably the best plan to keep Sonny awake through the winter as that will enable me to monitor her condition with more accuracy.
I'll move the camera further back tonight to see if I can get more 'captures' and I'll keep weighing her every weekend - keeping up with the 'claw trimming' training at the same time.
I was taking her out into her garden every day for about an hour of R'n'R and during these spells she seemed happy and content but once back inside she became increasingly grumpy in spite of initially seeming to enjoy the increased interaction and stimulation of having more human contact.
I decided yesterday; after Sonny bit me - the little brat, that she needed to go back outside. I'm struggling with the 'flu at the moment but needs must so I wobbled my way outside in the rain and rejigged her bedroom's insulation, installing her heatpad as part of the renovations. I popped her back into bed and left her to it. When I checked up on her after an hour or so I found her sitting in the doorway of her bedroom 'peering' around with her nose going frantically. She also had some company as Miss Effie had decided to crawl into the hutch to pay Sonny a visit. After much nose sniffing and a bit of confusion Sonny took her self back to bed and went back to sleep for the rest of the day.
I set up my IR camera near her ramp to hopefully help monitor whether she came 'out to play' or not.
This is all totally uncharted territory for us and we just have to make it up as we go along which is a bit scary to say the least. I do feel though, that it is probably the best plan to keep Sonny awake through the winter as that will enable me to monitor her condition with more accuracy.
I'll move the camera further back tonight to see if I can get more 'captures' and I'll keep weighing her every weekend - keeping up with the 'claw trimming' training at the same time.
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