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Originally Posted by kjc  Hi and welcome to YorkieTalk. I wish it was under better circumstances I read your thread last night but decided to think about it before I said anything. I just want to let you know that I had an older Yorkie and I fed her on a senior diet but she didn’t do well on it at all. After about a year she just got real lethargic and sluggish so I switched her back to a regular diet not high-performance or anything and I noticed a big change toward the good.She was more active and coherent and I really believe that it was due to the diet at that time.
I agree with Joy, about quality-of-life issues and you sound like you are very in tune with your Yorkie so maybe you do not mention her age when you go to the next vet like you found her and you think she’s around 15 or so, maybe then they would be more willing to treat her disease instead of just writing her off. I’ll probably get blasted for saying that but I think there may be some kind of cultural differences between our two countries because I believe over here you could probably find any number of vets who would be willing to treat her at 17 years of age. I wish you the best of luck and let us know how it goes. |
Hey Kjc, thank you for the warm welcome and I too wish it was under better circumstances.
I am very in-tune with her, and my 4 yorkies in total (they're all a family!), and I will certainly look into that diet thing with my other 3 who are now 7, 12 and 12.
I made a response to the above post from LadyJane which explains how she's being doing since, but it's under approval, so it'll probably be vieawable by the time you read this.
Your idea about the vet thing is interesting and I'm more than willing to give this a try. To be completely honest, I wouldn't blast you for saying what you said because I actually agree. My experience with the 3 UK vets I've used have really been hit and miss, some really amazing and some not so amazing (they tried to put her down when she was 13 for a non cancerous tumor in her bottom) Suffice to say, we found someone who successfully operated on it and it was extremely proven to be worth it.
The problem with our vets is, they all want history before treatment which is annoying, so maybe the we found her part might stop them from asking that.
I will certainly keep you up-to-date and I appreciate the optimism as I need a little of this in my life right now and so does my little fighter.