[Petbunny] OT: Shiloh needs prayers and vibes

Dorthy Woods diggiewoo at aol.com
Fri Aug 14 14:21:30 PDT 2009


I am assuming Shiloh is a cat or dog since bunnies don't throw up.  I  
never heard of pica.  I really hope Shiloh gets better.  This sounds  
very strange.  I will look it up on the web though.   Hugs to you and  
Shiloh.

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On Aug 13, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Andrea Zander wrote:

> Sigh. For anyone not up on the "saga," Shiloh has developed a rather  
> severe
> case of pica, where she is eating things that aren't food--like REALLY
> aren't food. At the beginning of July, she ate Olivia's tutu. When  
> we got
> back from vacation (during which she got rid of most of the tutu,  
> and then
> the rest of it at home), she began eating magnetic letters--the kind  
> that go
> on the fridge door. She also chewed the string off Liv's toy telephone
> (about 12" long, for pulling the phone about) and ate it. Got rid of  
> that,
> and she ate a ribbon (we think--we weren't too interested in  
> determining
> exactly what it was) and got rid of it. Well, yesterday afternoon  
> she ate
> the string, connecting chain, and footlong feathery "tail" off  
> Poco's cat
> wand. And now she's replaced eating with throwing up all over the  
> house--not
> much, but in a lot of places. Sigh. Any support you can offer is
> appreciated. Shiloh is 14, and otherwise pretty spunky. We know her  
> time is
> coming, but this is so bizarre and hard to handle.
>
> Thanks.
> Andrea Z and the Z Zoo



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