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Tibbe had another bad night last night with loud bowel sounds, restlessness, some hacking and a partly mucus-partly very, very dark stool & had an accident in the living room overnight, so we traded tomorrow's appt. for today & I took the stool & Tibbe in for an exam by the vet. His regular vets were both out today & a covering vet was there, the 5th vet he's seen since May. Took her forever to read his file. Said the stool was not tarry at all - no blood, just the mucus & we had a heart-to-heart about how he is fed & when, etc. since his apparent fall in May, when he was started on 11 doses of Prednisolone & a lot of the tummy trouble started, though he had had a bit of some this year - some previous gassy, distended tummy & belching/reflux.

The long & short of it it is, after I told her all about his diet, when he switched to what, etc., how he'd had quite a few Beef Jerky treats late winter, had some bits of human food at times before his May incident & I found out that when the vet said "Start him on the Iam's I/D or the Royal Canin GI, at first I mixed his old food combination of Iams Proactive/Science Diet Sensitive stomach with the new but that Tibbe would pick out only the new food to eat and me, thinking since it was Rx diet, made for bad tummies, why not just go ahead & fully switch. So we had too abrupt switching of food too often recently & before that, too much extra's accounting for his earlier troubles.

She started him on Fortiflora today to pour over his Hill's I/D, will keep him on Pepcid AC & thinks if we do no more switching, he should straighten out. She still thought that even though he had been on nothing but Hill's since Sunday, had a bad night last night, had that awful dark, dark & half-mucus stool today & an overnight stool in the living room - definitely indicating he is not himself. He's been perfectly clean in the house except since he got sick. So we'll see if this works.