Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Connie, I stand corrected I was feeding 3% of her weight (63lbs.) up until last week. Her last visit at the vet for the giardi she weighed 63.4lbs. a month ago, today 59.6. What ratio should I be using at this time?
Let's go step by step. I'm getting confused.
Is this correct:
Connie, I have been feeding twice a day about 1.5lbs each feeding. I have bumped it up to around 1.7 to 1.9 twice a day since she has been losing weight.
If it's correct, how long have you been feeding 3+ pounds a day?
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I am also cunfused, I have been feeding her 6ozs. of meat (chicken gizzards, ground or chunk pork, beefstew chunks in rotation) 1/2 cup of Honest Kitchen and 1 turkey neck or back twice a day. I just recently since her weight loss been actually weighing everything for the past week, it has been coming up to a little less than 1 pound per meal 0.93 or so. Since then about a week ago I have increased it to 1.5 or 1.6 twice a day. I don't understand if I was over feeding would she not be fat or at least gaining some weight?
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I am also cunfused, I have been feeding her 6ozs. of meat (chicken gizzards, ground or chunk pork, beefstew chunks in rotation) 1/2 cup of Honest Kitchen and 1 turkey neck or back twice a day. I just recently since her weight loss been actually weighing everything for the past week, it has been coming up to a little less than 1 pound per meal 0.93 or so. Since then about a week ago I have increased it to 1.5 or 1.6 twice a day. I don't understand if I was over feeding would she not be fat or at least gaining some weight?
THK isn't factored in the same as actual raw.
By "1/2 cup THK" do you mean 1/2 cup dry, before rehydrating? Or 1/2 cup rehydrated?
Also, I don't know the weight of the turkey back or neck, so I really don't have any way to know what % you were feeding up until a week ago.
But more important: it has been one week that you have fed 3 pounds a day? So you don't know yet whether the dog is gaining on that, right? (And yes, if you went from 3% -- if that WAS 3% before-- to 5% all at once, the dog would very likely get diarrhea.)
Connie Sutherland Moderator Reg: 07-13-2005
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Do you have a small cheap postage scale or a kitchen scale? I am thinking that we really don't know what % the dog was getting, and that you want to weigh the food, probably starting with about 3.5% a day (in 2-meals-plus-snack), then re-weigh the dog in ten days or so.
Right now there are not enough known factors or enough time on increased rations to really know whether the dog is gaining or losing, right? I would be worried about a dog losing on the same rations as before, but we don't actually have that info, I don't think.
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57.9 yesterday, 63.4 1 month ago same scale same vet. Have an appointment today for a TLI test for EPI to be sent to Texas A&M University (home of EPI research) also where the vet was a grad. from. I will keep you posted. Got a scale too.
Have an appointment today for a TLI test for EPI to be sent to Texas A&M University (home of EPI research) also where the vet was a grad. from. I will keep you posted. Got a scale too.
This sounds like the best course of action to me.
No worries about the confusion. Bottom line is the dog is losing weight on a large amount of food.
One more thing that I'd buy is a notebook specifically to write this stuff down. It is very hard to remember all these different numbers. And you won't have to do it forever, just until the problem is figured out.
Keep track of weight, amount fed, bowel movements, anything that you think pertains to this problem. It will be alot easier to relay information to your vet or even here if you have any questions.
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