The only thing that the vet was concerned about was the weight loss especially when I mentioned the pudding pooh. He asked about diet first thing when we were watching the scale results. So I think, at first he is thinking diet. We discussed the pooh, at length, and the fact that there has been no diarrhea lately since changing to raw. He's not ready to run a blood test, he just wants to make sure the poop is good and the weight goes up...
What made him think of EPI, is that he is currently treating a white shepherd with that problem.
As long as she is otherwise very healthy, I'd add a bit more food and not worry about it...
My dogs tend to be thin - my youngest should probably gain 2-3 pounds (she weighs 35# or so). It's hard to get weight on her - she is 18 m/, very active and it melts off. I've often heard from other that their active dogs were still a bit on the scrawny side at this age and finally started to fill out between 2-3.
I would have asked the vet which is more like a Twinkie--a raw, natural, whole food, species-appropriate diet, or a processed, chemically enhanced pseudo food with an indefinite shelf life--like kibble?
Well, the logic of the conversation did not hit me at that moment in time.
But I do have to say, we'll educate him! He's gone through a lot with me and this beast.
Did they do a fecal smear (not float)? There is some bacteria that can show up on the smear and I am coming up empty on the name of it at the moment, I'm thinking campy. I believe the drug of choice for tx is flagyl. I remember a local kennel having a lot of dogs going home with abn stools, some say it was the water, some say stress, some say both, I don't know maybe none of the mentioned. Just a thought...
They did check for parasites and such when she was kenneled. It actually came back negative, but put her on flagyl anyway because of her symptoms. We did the whole course, and she was starting to firm up inconsistently, which led me to the looking at diet.
No waste of time! I am just feeling like I am obsessed with poop, price per pound of chicken, germs on my counters and still a skinny dog. OY, I am such a jewish mother.
A friend had this pudding type problem, cause never found but her vet recc adding psyllium husk powder. She did it and the pudding went to puffy, and she was happy. I have never used that supplement, I am assuming a fiber source, and never really looked into it. Well I'll keep thinking and I'm sure others will post, hopefully you'll awake and the problem will have resolved.
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