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We were watching tv tonight and I hear Leo getting into trouble in the other room. I go in and he is trying to have a pooter lick, but falls over. Then I see it - a nugget of poop dangling by a thread from his bum. I pin him down and call for back up from Ben. He comes in and is searching for scissors as I am trying to explain that you can't pull on the thread. We snip it and now I am on patrol tomorrow to see what is coming out next time.
Then Molly runs in later with litter stuck to her tail... POOP TAIL! Yuck. Someone had diarrhea. So I wipe her down and inspect the box, sure enough it looks like she has had some issues.
We started her on the prednisone (steroids) for her suspected IBD last Monday. I was mixing half BiTR venison with half cooked chicken thighs for the first week and she did great. Just switched her over yesterday to the new elimination diet premix and cooked chicken thighs. So I will give it a week and see how this goes. The frustrating thing is, that I know adding pumpkin will probably fix her right up and make things firm, but she isn't supposed to have anything except novel protein, vitamins and calcium carbonate essentially.
Diet trials suck big time. All y'all who have had to do this at some point have my utmost sympathies.
Then Molly runs in later with litter stuck to her tail... POOP TAIL! Yuck. Someone had diarrhea. So I wipe her down and inspect the box, sure enough it looks like she has had some issues.
We started her on the prednisone (steroids) for her suspected IBD last Monday. I was mixing half BiTR venison with half cooked chicken thighs for the first week and she did great. Just switched her over yesterday to the new elimination diet premix and cooked chicken thighs. So I will give it a week and see how this goes. The frustrating thing is, that I know adding pumpkin will probably fix her right up and make things firm, but she isn't supposed to have anything except novel protein, vitamins and calcium carbonate essentially.
Diet trials suck big time. All y'all who have had to do this at some point have my utmost sympathies.