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Big_Katuna
Sep 04, 2015Explorer II
Food and managing exposure to insecticides and changing his vaccines. definitely helped Boudreaux. We took him to Shands UF Vet Hospital/College for a full workup to make sure it wasnt a tumor or something solvable.
Idiopathic Epi was the diagnosis. While our vet wanted to start Phenbarb right away, the vets there suggested changing food, etc.
They also changed up his vaccines to space them out instead of 2-3 at once.
As I stated, he went from 2-3 a week to 2-3 a month and a year later, 2-3 a year. Lived to 14.5. His mom almost made it to 17.
Long lives for Standard Poodles.
Idiopathic Epi was the diagnosis. While our vet wanted to start Phenbarb right away, the vets there suggested changing food, etc.
They also changed up his vaccines to space them out instead of 2-3 at once.
As I stated, he went from 2-3 a week to 2-3 a month and a year later, 2-3 a year. Lived to 14.5. His mom almost made it to 17.
Long lives for Standard Poodles.
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