Blue Buffalo. or Taste of Wild? update on Bud
I want to change Buds food and Tractor supply has these and there own high end brand. Which would you go with?
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The phenobarbital can definitely make them wobbly. Wise of your vet to back it off a bit. You will eventually find that "happy" spot where the drug controls the seizures without causing too many side effects. There are other drugs available but my vet always said that pheno was the oldest med and used for humans as well. He liked it because we know the side effects and what to expect.
Glad Bud is doing better. No seizures is definitely better. My Neal was having a really bad seizure when he was outside at a campground. I, of course, was observing and keeping him away from anything that would harm him. Someone came rushing up to me and told me I needed to get him to a vet and have him put down right away. I said he was having a seizure. He had just had surgery for swallowing rocks and his pheno level got compromised with the vomiting, etc. The next day I saw the same person and introduced him to my now "normal" dog. He was glad to know he was okay.
Oh another thing. Neal developed "pica" which is the habit of eating inanimate objects. He would eat rocks, dirt, anything that was on the floor, etc. He had two surgeries to remove rocks. One of the surgeries revealed a pill blister tab (like what pills are on) stuck in his intestine. Fortunately they found that because that actually was more problematic than the rocks that time. You will just have to watch Bud closely and see that he doesn't do that. They don't all do it, but Neal did and when he eventually went off his meds, he stopped it.
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Glad Bud is doing better. No seizures is definitely better. My Neal was having a really bad seizure when he was outside at a campground. I, of course, was observing and keeping him away from anything that would harm him. Someone came rushing up to me and told me I needed to get him to a vet and have him put down right away. I said he was having a seizure. He had just had surgery for swallowing rocks and his pheno level got compromised with the vomiting, etc. The next day I saw the same person and introduced him to my now "normal" dog. He was glad to know he was okay.
Oh another thing. Neal developed "pica" which is the habit of eating inanimate objects. He would eat rocks, dirt, anything that was on the floor, etc. He had two surgeries to remove rocks. One of the surgeries revealed a pill blister tab (like what pills are on) stuck in his intestine. Fortunately they found that because that actually was more problematic than the rocks that time. You will just have to watch Bud closely and see that he doesn't do that. They don't all do it, but Neal did and when he eventually went off his meds, he stopped it.
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