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Prushanks
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UGH!! Back down to 58lbs from 64lbs! She looks horrible.
This week Miesha lost the 6lbs she had put on this last month when my boys left the gate open and she crept upstairs to eat all of Tank's food. He eats a mix of her NB LID Lamb&Rice and i/d Dry which has chicken in it, which she has a huge sensitivity to. Her GI reacted the same way when she was young on Canidae [Chicken/Turkey/Lamb] as well as when i did food trials on her with an LID Chicken & Rice. Pudding with the tell-tale excessive mucus. Blech.
I fasted 24 and put her on ground turkey & rice, she had a extra solid stool that day and all was good. Next morning... the most FOUL mucusy diarrhea i have never seen come out of a dog.. and i have seen some nasty stools in my day... holy mucus batman!! !! Its like something acute happened within 12 hours. Fasted her again for 24 and started fresh the following morning with turkey & rice but no change which is very odd for her.. she's super mushy too [which i would normally LOVE but not this way
]. She's not her hellish doberdemonic self.
Soooo went to Vet, tylan injectable, metronidazole BID, and canned i/d, stool out to the lab just in case. Hopefully this will get her straight. I just cannot imagine what she could have gotten into to produce those colonic gems of horror!!
Oh and on a side note... i saw a different doc than i had before and i got that bit of "push" toward Hills Rx. We were talking about my food trial journey with Miesha and he said something like.. well you know you cant really trust anything OTC for food allergies. I also had to correct him [politely] when he was referring to it as a food allergy. He prob just mis-spoke. But i got that "icky" feeling that @AresMyDobie and @JanS were talking about when i first joined. It's interesting to see it from the client perspective. I also wonder how much of it was lack of nutritional experience. I just really don't like when people speak in absolutes... and he did, which i clearly untrue. Also, all the Docs i have worked with were always open to investigating other non Rx options with patients... hence my more kumbaya attitude!
This week Miesha lost the 6lbs she had put on this last month when my boys left the gate open and she crept upstairs to eat all of Tank's food. He eats a mix of her NB LID Lamb&Rice and i/d Dry which has chicken in it, which she has a huge sensitivity to. Her GI reacted the same way when she was young on Canidae [Chicken/Turkey/Lamb] as well as when i did food trials on her with an LID Chicken & Rice. Pudding with the tell-tale excessive mucus. Blech.
I fasted 24 and put her on ground turkey & rice, she had a extra solid stool that day and all was good. Next morning... the most FOUL mucusy diarrhea i have never seen come out of a dog.. and i have seen some nasty stools in my day... holy mucus batman!! !! Its like something acute happened within 12 hours. Fasted her again for 24 and started fresh the following morning with turkey & rice but no change which is very odd for her.. she's super mushy too [which i would normally LOVE but not this way
]. She's not her hellish doberdemonic self.Soooo went to Vet, tylan injectable, metronidazole BID, and canned i/d, stool out to the lab just in case. Hopefully this will get her straight. I just cannot imagine what she could have gotten into to produce those colonic gems of horror!!
Oh and on a side note... i saw a different doc than i had before and i got that bit of "push" toward Hills Rx. We were talking about my food trial journey with Miesha and he said something like.. well you know you cant really trust anything OTC for food allergies. I also had to correct him [politely] when he was referring to it as a food allergy. He prob just mis-spoke. But i got that "icky" feeling that @AresMyDobie and @JanS were talking about when i first joined. It's interesting to see it from the client perspective. I also wonder how much of it was lack of nutritional experience. I just really don't like when people speak in absolutes... and he did, which i clearly untrue. Also, all the Docs i have worked with were always open to investigating other non Rx options with patients... hence my more kumbaya attitude!
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That's something I very much dislike and why we fed our GSP SD thinking if he recommended the food it must be good. Boy was I wrong there. The vet who took over the practice does not push it like some of the other vets do and told us that the TOTW is an excellent food.Oh and on a side note... i saw a different doc than i had before and i got that bit of "push" toward Hills Rx. We were talking about my food trial journey with Miesha and he said something like.. well you know you cant really trust anything OTC for food allergies. I also had to correct him [politely] when he was referring to it as a food allergy. He prob just mis-spoke. But i got that "icky" feeling that@AresMyDobie and
@JanS were talking about when i first joined. It's interesting to see it from the client perspective.
Hope she starts feeling better soon!
Or switch to raw 
would firm her right up 
would firm her right up
Prushanks
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hahaha! Would if i could [i do find it very interesting/appealing!] but my darn kiddos don't eat that well, and i have a feeling hubby would kick me and the lil high-maintenance Biatch to the curb if i did!Or switch to raw
Hahahahaha I wonder if a couple satin balls would be ok ? They aren't hard on the tummy eitherhahaha! Would if i could [i do find it very interesting/appealing!] but my darn kiddos don't eat that well, and i have a feeling hubby would kick me and the lil high-maintenance Biatch to the curb if i did!
! I fed them to Boo berry when I first got her and it helped get weight on her as well as firmed her up. Would her heat have anything to do with this ? I have IBSD ( gross I know and probably TMI ) lol but on my cycle everything gets all jacked up.
Shoot. Sucks to hear of your latest travail, though it strengthens the kinship between Oji and Miesha. Oji was down to 60 lbs. as a male at 22 months of age. This according the the vet's scale. I started adding back in a third meal of the day, which upped his feed to 5 cups per day. I even upped it to 6 cups per day like we did early on, but things go too loose. So back to 5 most days, or 4 if I don't have time for his three feeds. Anyway, I weighed him on our bathroom scale today and it came out to 64 lbs. Knowing my vet's evil scale it would probably have him at 60 still. Carry on, sista'.UGH!! Back down to 58lbs from 64lbs! She looks horrible.
This week Miesha lost the 6lbs she had put on this last month when my boys left the gate open and she crept upstairs to eat all of Tank's food. He eats a mix of her NB LID Lamb&Rice and i/d Dry which has chicken in it, which she has a huge sensitivity to. Her GI reacted the same way when she was young on Canidae [Chicken/Turkey/Lamb] as well as when i did food trials on her with an LID Chicken & Rice. Pudding with the tell-tale excessive mucus. Blech.
I fasted 24 and put her on ground turkey & rice, she had a extra solid stool that day and all was good. Next morning... the most FOUL mucusy diarrhea i have never seen come out of a dog.. and i have seen some nasty stools in my day... holy mucus batman!! !! Its like something acute happened within 12 hours. Fasted her again for 24 and started fresh the following morning with turkey & rice but no change which is very odd for her.. she's super mushy too [which i would normally LOVE but not this way
Soooo went to Vet, tylan injectable, metronidazole BID, and canned i/d, stool out to the lab just in case. Hopefully this will get her straight. I just cannot imagine what she could have gotten into to produce those colonic gems of horror!!
Oh and on a side note... i saw a different doc than i had before and i got that bit of "push" toward Hills Rx. We were talking about my food trial journey with Miesha and he said something like.. well you know you cant really trust anything OTC for food allergies. I also had to correct him [politely] when he was referring to it as a food allergy. He prob just mis-spoke. But i got that "icky" feeling that @AresMyDobie and @JanS were talking about when i first joined. It's interesting to see it from the client perspective. I also wonder how much of it was lack of nutritional experience. I just really don't like when people speak in absolutes... and he did, which i clearly untrue. Also, all the Docs i have worked with were always open to investigating other non Rx options with patients... hence my more kumbaya attitude!
Prushanks
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I just cannot imagine what she could have gotten into to produce those colonic gems of horror!!
Hmmmm... my hubby mentioned something interesting that i noticed but had forgotten about. .. we had seen her drinking stagnant water that pooled up on top of the bbq grill cover on the ground that day she had the solid... and ~12 hrs later...
Prudence used to do that a lot with no issue but with Miesha's whacked out GI... maybe that was the catalyst? Well, regardless she is on enteric ABs so that is covered. Thank you all for listening to me drone on and for the well wishes and advice! @AresMyDobie i was thinking of trying Satin Balls too before this shenanigans! Ive never tried her on beef.. i wonder if i can do it with turkey?
Might as well try the beef
TheDoctor'sMom
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I wouldn't expect much results using turkey since it is a lean protein.
Kobi 9 and a half months....
34 kilo, 74lbs.
34 kilo, 74lbs.
bomary
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Jax is four days shy of 8mos., and 81 flipping pounds!! Omg. Two kids saw us sitting in the front yard yesterday evening and said, "Can we play with Jax?" It was awesome because they played catch and fetch for thirty minutes and wore his ass out.
Here is a pic of him today at the vet (a tummy issue that I overreacted about...as is typical for me!) I think he thought he was hiding in the corner and nobody would find him and possibly give him a shot!!! Love this sweet boy!
Here is a pic of him today at the vet (a tummy issue that I overreacted about...as is typical for me!) I think he thought he was hiding in the corner and nobody would find him and possibly give him a shot!!! Love this sweet boy!
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Born 9/18/15
9wks 3days: 22.8lbs
11wks [12/4/15]: 27.2lbs
12 wks [12/11/15] 30.5 lbs
13 wks [12/18/15] 34.4 lbs & 19 in
14 wks [12/25/15] 36.0 lbs & 19.5 in
15 wks [1/1/16] 37.6lbs & 20 in
16 wks [1/8/16] 41lbs & 20.75 in
17 wks [1/15/16] 43.2 lbs & 21"
18 wks [1/22/16] 44.4 lbs & 21.75"
19 wks [1/29/16] 45.4 lbs & 22"
20 wks [2/5/16] 45 lbs & 22.75"
21 wks [2/12/16] 46 lbs & 23.25"
22 wks -or- 5 Calendar Months [2/19/16] 49 lbs & 23.5"
23 wks [2/26/16] 50.2 lbs & 23.5"
24 wks -or- 5.5 Calendar Months [3/4/16] 52.8 lbs & 24"
25 wks [3/11/16] 53.8 lbs & ~ 24"
26 wks -or- 6 Calendar Months [3/18/16] 54.6lbs & ~24.5"
7 Months [4/18/16] 59lbs & ~25.75"
7 Months 1wk [4/23/16] 63lbs
7 Months ~2wks [5/1/16] 64lbs & 26"
8 Months [5/18/16] 61.8lbs & ~26.25"
Well, we've gotten her back on track since her GI issues this last 2 weeks. She finished her last pill today and is well into transition back on her kibble! Hopefully getting her back on track with gaining weight... this last incident really brought those bones back out. It just horrifies me to see.
@Oh Little Oji - I fear Oji and Miesha will be mirroring each other in the GI world. I feel your pain.
9wks 3days: 22.8lbs
11wks [12/4/15]: 27.2lbs
12 wks [12/11/15] 30.5 lbs
13 wks [12/18/15] 34.4 lbs & 19 in
14 wks [12/25/15] 36.0 lbs & 19.5 in
15 wks [1/1/16] 37.6lbs & 20 in
16 wks [1/8/16] 41lbs & 20.75 in
17 wks [1/15/16] 43.2 lbs & 21"
18 wks [1/22/16] 44.4 lbs & 21.75"
19 wks [1/29/16] 45.4 lbs & 22"
20 wks [2/5/16] 45 lbs & 22.75"
21 wks [2/12/16] 46 lbs & 23.25"
22 wks -or- 5 Calendar Months [2/19/16] 49 lbs & 23.5"
23 wks [2/26/16] 50.2 lbs & 23.5"
24 wks -or- 5.5 Calendar Months [3/4/16] 52.8 lbs & 24"
25 wks [3/11/16] 53.8 lbs & ~ 24"
26 wks -or- 6 Calendar Months [3/18/16] 54.6lbs & ~24.5"
7 Months [4/18/16] 59lbs & ~25.75"
7 Months 1wk [4/23/16] 63lbs
7 Months ~2wks [5/1/16] 64lbs & 26"
8 Months [5/18/16] 61.8lbs & ~26.25"
Well, we've gotten her back on track since her GI issues this last 2 weeks. She finished her last pill today and is well into transition back on her kibble! Hopefully getting her back on track with gaining weight... this last incident really brought those bones back out. It just horrifies me to see.
@Oh Little Oji - I fear Oji and Miesha will be mirroring each other in the GI world. I feel your pain.
rohinipais
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Morning guys…big problem – went to the vet yesterday and got Rocky weighed – he has dropped weight in the last 2 months – he was 70 lbs even before the 7th month hit and he is now at 67 lbs – lost 3 lbs
How do we get his weight back up – he will be 9 months on the 5th and as per doc he said that there was nothing to worry about in terms of his weight – I was so excited that he would at least put on some weight but this is a major setback – how do I get the weight back up? Please advise
How do we get his weight back up – he will be 9 months on the 5th and as per doc he said that there was nothing to worry about in terms of his weight – I was so excited that he would at least put on some weight but this is a major setback – how do I get the weight back up? Please advise
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