No, it doesn't sound like temporary diarrhea.

I am trying to find a link I saw the other day that had vets listed. If you know the link, please post.

This little dog has been like this for what seems like forever, and I guess after all that has been wrong and so many vet trips, FINALLY, we are both realizing that the vet doesn't know either.

She has been on antibiotics and prednisone in the past but not in about four months. She seemed to be better and now she has this pudding poop again. My sister took her back last week and that is when they added on the Fiber Forte.

If you know of the post I am referring, please post. I even found a holistic vet near me but no one has answered the phone since I have been calling. I hope she is still there but there is no answering machine, either.

Thanks

 Quote: Connie Sutherland

For a vet whose education stopped dead in the 70s or 80s, it's not so welcome to have owners who read and research.

I know her vet (husband/wife team) as they were also my vet when I lived there. They would have gotten out of school in the early-mid 90's, so here's hoping for a little more progress.

 Quote: Nora Ferrell

I am trying to find a link I saw the other day that had vets listed. If you know the link, please post.

http://www.leerburg.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Board=10&Number=112211&Searchpage=1&Main=12395&Words=holistic+Cindy+Easton+Rhodes&topic=0&Search=true#Post112211

Page 5 shows some links to other lists, such as the AHVMA.

Thanks for the links.

The vet has done fecal test every time and says they are negative. She has diagnosed her with colitis.

My sister gave her some oatmeal with her food yesterday thinking it would bulk up her stool. Today she is better and seems to have normal stool.

I also have introduced her (sister not dog) to some web sites and info on natural feeding.

She is seeking another vet.

It all looks to me (in my very new and limited knowledge) that this is food related. The dog has had problems on and off for a couple of years. But with the bladder stone, pancreatitis and everything else, I think they are having a hard time identifying what it is now. But to me, it looks all food related.

Nora,
Many, many years ago I had a dog diagnosed with colitis, but they ended up having to do a colonoscopy on the dog to get an accurate diagnosis.

It's the "gold standard" test for any of the inflammatory bowel diseases.


Hope that helps!

 Quote: will rambeau

Nora,
Many, many years ago I had a dog diagnosed with colitis, but they ended up having to do a colonoscopy on the dog to get an accurate diagnosis.

It's the "gold standard" test for any of the inflammatory bowel diseases.


Hope that helps!

After two years, it's a little unnerving that the present vet has not brought this up.

I want to add that a vet with a nutrition specialty is going to be a godsend with a dog who has anything like colitis or IBS/IBD.... dietary control of colitis and like ailments has no side effects. There are meds, with varying degrees of potential side effects, and if that diagnosis is correct, meds may be needed. But a vet who understands the value in fresh food, sensitivity trials, etc., is going to be your sister's best friend.



JMO.

Thanks, Will and Connie.

I will tell her about the colonoscopy.

Two years is a long time. But it seems like so much has been wrong that it's making it difficult to find the right one at the right time.

They thought at first it was separation anxiety, then she had the bladder stones, then she had the pancreatitis.

I told her to try some behavoir modification so far as when they have been gone, don't go ga ga with excitement when they come back and see if that will help the over excitement in the dog. She said the dog doesn't do this with her husband as much as with her. It has gotten to the point, they are afraid to leave the dog very long because of the colitis.

When they were on vacation last year and found out about the bladder stones, they at first thought it was because of a change in their activity and leaving the dog longer when they went out to dinner. She was having loose stools. (That's when the vet had given her valium - she said it made the dog sleepy but didn't really work, so she stopped using it.) When she got sicker and they took her to the vet in SC, they found the bladder stones, so it has just gone from one thing to another and that why I think it is probably food borne. The one constant that hasn't changed is lots of grain in her food.