I hope you'll understand....

if I ask you to pray for Licorice, he's taken a turn for the worse. I'm not sure how people feel about praying for an animal but they are God's creatures too.

He started with scours two days ago and even with yogurt it didn't seem to be getting any better, so called the local vet and he prescribed some scour paste and probiotics( more concentrated than the cultures in yogurt). It's our up and down weather that is stressing this poor fella*sigh*. So we picked up the medication and administered the first of two doses of the scour paste, in late afternoon/ early evening . Now understand up to this point all he had was scours, but was alert,and nursing well. When we went out to feed him at 9:00pm last night, he looked like he didn't feel good and it took some rubbing and coaching to get him to nurse, he finally finished off the bottle. I was worried this morning we'd find him dead, but he was alert, but weak and refused to nurse. He still has the scours, so I'm worried about his loosing strength and dehydration. Mike helped me and we used a large syringe and fed him that way, so at least he's getting some warmth, the nutrients and liquid to keep him hydrated. Later this morning he was given a B-12 shot, to see if we couldn't pep him up a bit and then went to get some goats milk( thinking maybe he's intolerant of the calf replacer we're using)  Back home we find him standing in the sunshine, but he still refuses to nurse, so.... I use the syringe and give him a good dose of warm goats milk. Praying this will pep the little fella up enough so he gains his strength back and will begin nursing again on his own again.  At this point I'm afraid to give him the second dose of paste for scours, but will continue the probiotics in his milk.  It's supposed to be cold( low teens) tonight and I'm afraid if he doesn't perk up he may not survive, we won't let him suffer or die out in the cold.

Thank you for your prayers