Try feeding organic soy infant formula thickened a bit with baby cereal that says add milk ....... it will help with hydration as well as providing nutrition ........ cooked grains, cooked & mashed vegs, cooked grains and block mush can also help with hydration and provide nutrition but it sounds like it may be too difficult for her to eat them?
Can't comment about the food as i have never heard of it
Is she on antibiotics etc for her breathing issues?
I've probably gone over most of this in other Cleo-related threads, so most of this won't be new info.
As I've likely mentioned before, I'm having trouble finding that formula at all, let alone in a size that won't go bad before we use it all. All the stuff I see around here is milk-based, and you add water.
She has other foods she'll eat, and her hydtration is improving. I was asking specifically about the jicama because I had some cut up, and it would have been easy to give it to her. She won't eat block mush. Oatmeal with Critical Care food mixed in and with some corn, peas, blueberries, and/or grated almond is sometimes accepted. She gets tired of it pretty quickly.
She's on clavamox for whatever is going on with her bladder/kidneys. OVC was much less helpful than their reputation led me to believe they'd be. We've been trying combinations of antibiotics for her respiratory issues for close to two years now, and nothing has worked. We figure that she, Raven, and Chess all had the same thing. Rook is fine, and Milo is fine, so whatever it is isn't contagious. It's likely a congenital thing, possibly similar to something another forum member mentioned (nodules on the lungs). At this point, we've accepted that there's not much we can do. The inhaler no longer helps, and just sends her into a panic.
I know about other hydrating foods-- we've been ratfolk for sixteen years.
What I really wanted info on was the jicama specifically, not hydrating foods in general. I haven't had one in the house for a long time, and was wondering if it was okay or not. There's only so much melon a body can eat before it gets boring.