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by D.H. on 06 October 2006 - 21:44 |
| I would put her on a cottage cheese/potatoe diet for a while to see if that settles things a bit. The potatoes boiled in salt water slow down digestion, the cottage cheese is predigested protein. Ratio of what you feed is 1:1, the total amount depends on her weight. I would guess about 2 cups each per day but could easily be 6 cups per day. This will give you a baseline. Then add butter and see if you get a reaction. Start with 1 teaspoon, work up to 1-2 table spoon. Then add other food items one at a time to see what gets the reaction. Example, add rice, and see if there is reaction. The omit rice, add beef. Then omit beef, add chicken. Omit chicken, add soft boiled eggs (egg white firm, yolk soft). Etc. First thing I would add is a vitamin supplement like Nupro or Nuvet. If it works, leave it in as part of the test. There are some diets out there for sensitive dogs. Fish and Potatoe by Firstmate might work, or Eagle Holistic Fish or Duck Formula. Or go with the no gain like Evo or Orijen. I would still do the home made cottage cheese and potatoe test first, its easy and uncomplicate to do, to determine what your dog is reactive to as some of these prefab diets are loaded with all sort of ingredients. I would not worry about her being lean, some dogs just are. I would worry about the reactions such as bloody stool. Test the stool for e.coli. Consider the possibility of cancer (of the bone marrow?). Is the bloody stool already digested blood (black stool) or fresh blood (coming from lower part of intestines and is therefore undigested)? I don't believe bloody stool is part of EPI symptoms, but digestive enzymes might be helpful nonetheless. Could be that the digestive tract is disturbed by yeast or unfriendly bacteria, so adding acidophilus should also see some improvement. First you need to stop aggrevating the digestive tract though. Hence the suggestions above. |
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