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by joanro on 09 July 2017 - 17:07


A big chunk of raw, green tripe without being rinsed off and so as found directly out of the beef or deer or goat gut will do wonders for digestion. And dog will have lasting bennefit from just one feeding of the tripe. It will firm up the stool and help with absorption of nutrients.

Victor hi-pro for adults and puppies is excellent feed.

Giardia and coccidia look very similar and some vets mistake one for the other. Coccidia is much more likely unless your dog has been drinking stagnate pond water ( beaver fever is the slang for giardia) 

The treatment is different for the two. Toltrazurel from racetrack.com with knock it out....the vet will likely give you meds that will take months to cure it, if effective at all because of resistance to old stand by drugs.

The other thing not easily diagnosed unless you see them stringing out of your dog's rear, is tape worms originating from rodent guts, like rabbits, squirrels, voles....if your dog has eaten any, it will have those tapes. Proziquantel, generic purchased on line follow instructions...vets never consider those kind of tape worms, but the tapes from rodent guts are bad news for dogs and detrimental for dog owner's health. 

If that was my own dog, from what you described, i would do the above, and profylactically give toltrazurel dose, then proziquantel....the vet will milk the dog's poor condition for years and not remedy the situation.


Bundishep

by Bundishep on 09 July 2017 - 18:07

18 months at 41 pounds is very small i would get used to the fact that she will never be an average size female i would try her on diff food if you can find something she will eat alot of without giving her runny poop perhaps a diff food can help her weight, it sounds like your trying very hard to get her weight up best of luck to you.

by foreversolucky on 09 July 2017 - 19:07

She's not horrifyingly small - the FCI standard has the female weight range at 22-32kg (48.4-70.4 lbs.) and she's barely skeletally mature.  How tall is she?  Our female didn't really fill out until she was 4 years old, so I wouldn't be concerned on weight alone.  If she's visibly sickly, that's another story.

http://www.fci.be/Nomenclature/Standards/166g01-en.pdf


by GSCat on 09 July 2017 - 22:07

Thank you all.

The two reasons I went to the vet I did this year are because she integrates both holistic and "regular" veterinary care/science, and she was highly recommended. She was the one that told me about probiotics and enzymes :-) I will watch out for nickel-diming...

This morning, I gave my GSD an extra capsule of the probiotics/enzymes (opened/dumped on top of her food). She seemed to do OK with it, so I'll try this for awhile and see how it goes.

One of the nice things about the Orijen is the small amount of waste. If there were any less, I'd worry about the "tail end" of her digestive tract not having enough to do... in any case, if I do switch to raw, it'll have to wait until next year.

I will wait and watch and see how things go. It's just hard to be patient when I see other dogs growing faster... but I want to be absolutely certain to do everything possible to avoid any hip/joint/disc problems later. I'm just glad she's happy and healthy and loves to play (especially with the ball and anyone in a suit... and the cat).

Thanks, again.

by GSCat on 20 July 2017 - 03:07

It's only been 10 days and there are a couple of very noticeable positive differences.  Will check her weight in a week or two and see. Guess we'll stick with the double dosing of the probiotics/enzymes for awhile ;-)

Hope this helps someone else... people here have been really helpful to me ;-)

 






 


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