Gypsy has a eating disorder too. She swallows her food without chewing and she has always looked like she's 10 pounds underweight and starving, which may have contributed to the food aggression problem. I've wormed her repeatedly and have done a couple fecal tests, which sometimes showed some parasites but treatment has never resolved the problem of her failure to gain weight or the soft stools that she produces. Her vaccines were due, so we went to the vet today for vaccines, another fecal test (negative), and a consultation. We are doing five days of Panacure and switching her to a limited ingredient diet for a month or more. If she doesn't improve on the new diet we'll then do tests for panacreatic enzyme insufficiency and/or inflammatory bowel syndrome. I should have done this six months ago, but like I said, she sort of got pushed to the back of the pack.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Gypsy's play day
Gypsy has a eating disorder too. She swallows her food without chewing and she has always looked like she's 10 pounds underweight and starving, which may have contributed to the food aggression problem. I've wormed her repeatedly and have done a couple fecal tests, which sometimes showed some parasites but treatment has never resolved the problem of her failure to gain weight or the soft stools that she produces. Her vaccines were due, so we went to the vet today for vaccines, another fecal test (negative), and a consultation. We are doing five days of Panacure and switching her to a limited ingredient diet for a month or more. If she doesn't improve on the new diet we'll then do tests for panacreatic enzyme insufficiency and/or inflammatory bowel syndrome. I should have done this six months ago, but like I said, she sort of got pushed to the back of the pack.
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