We truly believe that Lobo is going to be on this prescription food for the rest of his life.
Whenever we give him the regular food, cheap or expensive he gets the runs and it pains us to watch him go through this digestive problem. Not only is this condition painful for Lobo but it is for us to. Imagine trying to get up from a deep sleep at 3 am. THAT is painful.
What irritates me is that the vet that did Lobo's examination did not really give us a definitive name for what Lobo has. He just told us what we already know, gave us a prescription medicine he should take for 10 days. Well, it worked for those 10 days. It alleviated Lobo's condition a bit but after the medicine was gone, came back the chronic diarrhea.
We went back to the vet and was seen by the same doctor. This time he gave us more prescription medicine and prescription food but still did not tell us what is wrong with Lobo no matter what we ask or how many times we ask "why". Ugh, irritating!
Anyway the medicine plus prescription food worked very well. Before that bag of food was consumed, we tried to mix his food with regular food hoping to get him back to regular food. BAD IDEA! So here we are with a new bag of prescription food. Nutro brand is one of the better brands and so is Chicken Soup for the Dog Food, neither worked. Now we keep a stash of two different dog food, one for each husky.
Oh for the love of Dogs!!!
I did my research about this because I want to know. I think Lobo has IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease). Based on the consistency of his stool and his then condition, a watery diarrhea with weight loss results if the infiltration of cells involved in inflammation and immune response is called to the lower small intestine. There is no known cause for this condition, it just happens. Just glad it's not his liver or his kidney.
We're just happy that he can go about doing his business as normal...in more ways than one.
Whenever we give him the regular food, cheap or expensive he gets the runs and it pains us to watch him go through this digestive problem. Not only is this condition painful for Lobo but it is for us to. Imagine trying to get up from a deep sleep at 3 am. THAT is painful.
What irritates me is that the vet that did Lobo's examination did not really give us a definitive name for what Lobo has. He just told us what we already know, gave us a prescription medicine he should take for 10 days. Well, it worked for those 10 days. It alleviated Lobo's condition a bit but after the medicine was gone, came back the chronic diarrhea.
We went back to the vet and was seen by the same doctor. This time he gave us more prescription medicine and prescription food but still did not tell us what is wrong with Lobo no matter what we ask or how many times we ask "why". Ugh, irritating!
Anyway the medicine plus prescription food worked very well. Before that bag of food was consumed, we tried to mix his food with regular food hoping to get him back to regular food. BAD IDEA! So here we are with a new bag of prescription food. Nutro brand is one of the better brands and so is Chicken Soup for the Dog Food, neither worked. Now we keep a stash of two different dog food, one for each husky.
Oh for the love of Dogs!!!
I did my research about this because I want to know. I think Lobo has IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease). Based on the consistency of his stool and his then condition, a watery diarrhea with weight loss results if the infiltration of cells involved in inflammation and immune response is called to the lower small intestine. There is no known cause for this condition, it just happens. Just glad it's not his liver or his kidney.
We're just happy that he can go about doing his business as normal...in more ways than one.
No comments:
Post a Comment