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Originally Posted by TLC  YES this does sound like she may have a liver shunt. Please know that this isn't a death sentence. She may be a good candidate for surgery to close the shunt. Or she may have multiple shunts that no surgery can be done. Either way, these babies do very well with the proper diet, supplements and medical precautions.
How much does she weigh? What does she normally eat? |
****Answer (I'm not sure I'm posting correctly) She normally weighs about 4.5 lbs but she's gained at least 6 oz since this started - the Pred. has given her a voracious appetite. One weird thing about all this is that I was feeding her Avoderm, and a few days before this started I began transitioning her to Eukanuba Healthy Naturals (only because she was out of the Avoderm and no where near me carries it). This all started on a Monday, and preceding Sunday was her first day on nothing but the new stuff. It's hard to dismiss this timing as a coincidence... I feel terrible now, too, because I've been administering her meds in peanut butter, and trying to supplement her new Euk. dogfood (which the vet has assured me is ok) with ground up brown rice, a little bit of chicken/chicken liver and mixed vegetables, so she could eat more often without increasing her calories or fat, and maybe it would keep her full longer. But I feel like, knowing now about the shunts and the implications of protein in her diet, I've made it worse!