A very old stray {The Old Fella Story}
Went camping this weekend at a campground on the lake, had not been there for a few years. Once there I began to walk around looking at the different sites when I noticed a very old dog. He just lay t...
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dturm wrote:
Sorry about Pickles. Good news that her blood work was OK. Sometimes GI issues take a few days to work through the system. Giardia is pretty easily picked up, usually by ingesting the parasite from contaminated water or from contaminated stools. If Pickles is anything like our dogs, they sniff/lick many things during their walks. Sasha in particular puts just about anything she finds that might be interesting in her mouth (haven't quite broken her of that yet).
BTW, if one of the medications is metronidazole (flagyl) it tastes REALLY bad. That can affect taste and appetite for a short period after medicating if the pill dissolves in the mouth. That's one we try to wrap in small amount of food or poke it down to minimize the possibility of getting a bad taste in the mouth.
Thanks Doug.
She is taking metronidazole we do wrap all her pills in food. But she has figured it out. I think she can smell the pill. The Vet gave us some can food and said to mix 50/50 food and ensure with crushed pill in syringe. We did that the first day. She ate pretty good yesterday. It was a first time in a while that she ate her dry dog food by itself.
She is also taking Panacur Liquid 100mg. We are giving her 5 ml of that.
He also said to give her a probiotic.
