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Originally Posted by sandy simpson  What food will you give him. This hills zd is working for spud. I hope you will get positive results with Tibbes food. |
I have a can or two of ZD in the cupboard - I think we tried that sometime last year or the year before - everything we've tried in the past has given him IBS symptoms of not eating, nausea, spitting up yellow bile all over the house(since he won't eat when he's sick, he doesn't actually vomit up food chunks - just bile), clinginess, lying around with big, sad eyes or standing in the floor with his head hanging down for long periods of time and eventually, he gets mucus in his stools and diarrhea. He jumps up suddenly as if he's got gas pains and his gut gurgles loudly during these bouts.
The first 3 or 4 years of his life he was able to eat any and everything - milk bones, could gradually change from one dog food to another, could eat pineapple, eggs, apple pieces, green beans, carrots, chicken, beef, and once in a while when I got pizza, he could eat a 1/2 teaspoon size of pepperoni or crust. But since he turned 3 1/2 or 4, everything made him sick until we started him on Hill I/D GI. But once he was diagnosed with MVD, we had to add hepatic to his diet and that's when the itching started. This past year that has gotten much worse to the point of even hot spots and now the yeast.
So, whatever the vet nutritionist tells me to try him on, that's what we'll try one more time, though my one vet is very worried meat will make him sick. I've got to look into Dr. Remillard but am just so scared, knowing what the past food changes have all brought - one to two weeks of his little life being turned upside down with suffering, my worrying, multiple vet visits, medicines.
I finally remembered to get the Apple Cider Vinegar and started him on that Thursday - slightly under 1/2 teaspoon in his drinking water bowl holding 1 1/4 cups of water. He's still doing well with his bad smell and hot spots being gone, his eyes maybe weeping a bit less, though it seemed like today he was scratching his underbelly a bit more than the 10 or so times he scratches daily.