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Originally Posted by Storm Alexander  Good morning Ellie May,
We free feed Storm and I do it mainly because of his weight. The one thing that I do notice is he eats only a little during the day but at night he does wake up and finish the bowl of food which is a little over a half a cup.
I also decided not to try and have him on a schedule and don't mind him eating at night because when we leave his days will be nights and nights days.
The Vet put him on Heartguard and told me to give him half because of his size, same with his flea prevention (comforties).
He was dewormed again (2nd time) about 2 months ago because I thought I seen worms in his stool, the Vet checked but the sample was negative and she still treated him just in case.
His last bloodwork was done during his neuter and teeth extraction at the age of 6 months and everything then was also fine.
Do you think I should have blood work done again. |
Hi, I'm trying to put weight on Alice too (she's only 6 months old though so it's a little different than you're Storm). I'm not too sure what to tell you to be honest other than maybe trying to get him to eat more than he is. My vet told me to give her a little more canned food, but too much and she gets loose stools, so I'll be interested to see what other advise you get
The only thing on a side note I wanted to mention to you quick - with the Heartguard - if you're only doing half a month (which IS good for how small he is) don't just break it in half since the actual Ivermectin isn't distributed equaly throughout the "treat". You have to mash the whole thing up and kind of mix it then give him half of that (you can store the other half in a zip-lock baggie). When I worked as a vet tech we were told this by our Merial rep (co. that makes it). So, just in case you weren't doing that already just wanted to let you know
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