Monday, June 1, 2009

Perhaps some caviar and champagne with that?




We got our test results back for Satan's spawn - and long story short, we need to get her to have firm stools. I spent about 15 minutes on the phone with a vet (not the one we usually see) from the clinic who explained her soft stools could be a pancreatic issue, leaky gut or parasitic something or other and we need and we should put her on a probiotic and maybe an enzyme supplement (which they sell) and maybe a full blood panel or they could look in her bowel while spaying her, blah, blah, blah. Or it could be a food issue. She suggested I should buy her pork tenderloin and make white basmatic rice. Wait a minute. Hold up. she's not throwing up and she's not in pain, no blood in the stools, but I'm not quite convinced I need to give her the Queen's dinner quite yet.
I'm not entirely sure if they're trying to help me out (maybe, just maybe), but I think I'm going to go one step at a time. She's grown quite a bit which could explain her elevated ALP levels and we've been monkeying with her food because she wasn't gaining enough weight when we got her. We didn't have enough of her old food to transition her to a new food, so we'll have mix it in with new stuff. I'll give her the probiotic and see what happens. In any case, this should prolong her spaying and I'll see what happens when I give this report to the shelter.

6 comments:

Sheri said...

Sounds like she is a handful...and she still is quite adorable!

Good luck as you figure out the right mix. :)

Ann said...

Okay, now, we are approaching cute overload-- the photos with her bunny are TOO cute! I hope she feels better soon.

Beautiful Mess said...

YAY for pictures! Thank you! Oh she is just so darn cute! I'm not a dog owner, so I could be wrong here, but your vet seems like he wants your money, well MORE of it anyway. I wouldn't go all crazy just yet. Especially if she's in no pain and no blood in her stool. I hope it all gets resolved soon.
*HUGS*

Guera! said...

I just can't get over how freakin adorable she is!

Guera! said...

Ok this is a little odd but I had a dream that I met you and Juno. Of course Juno got all the attention and took up most of the space in my dream....my apologies.

Alacrity said...

That picture of her in the crate is unbelievably cute!!