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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Great post Yorkieluv.
I know I am just not strict enough with Ellie but feeding raw is something I wouldn't even want to try. I don't prefer it anyway and there are just too many questionable aspects of it with liver compromised dogs. Liver compromised dogs may do okay on raw but I guess the question is, how much better could they do (or how much better could their enzyme and BAT numbers be) on a different diet... |
Liver shunts aren't as common in Maltese as they are in Yorkies, but we've got a number of MVD dogs over on Spoiled Maltese. We discuss diet a lot over there.
Dr. Center doesn't think asymptomatic MVD dogs need a special diet, but every single one of our members who have compared ALT values on regular or raw diets to values on diets designed for liver compromised dogs have seen huge differences, usually several hundred points higher on a regular diet.