She didnt eat her eggs and bacon. Slept most of the day.slurped some water.
I got home from work and she was up and about with a wiggly tail. I wrapped an antibiotic in a piece of cheese,she ate it.
She was looking for food.we didnt have anything ready for her.i gave her 3 cans of tuna with the water,she ate it all.she seems to like tuna. If its tuna she wants,its tuna she will get. Ill hit the store tonight and grab her a bunch of big cans. Should probably get rice to mix with it.
I cant say that shes getting better or cured. But she doesnt seem to be getting any worse than she was a month ago.The only side effects ive seen so far is shes got the hershey squirts and her claws grew pretty damn quick.
I'm starting to lean towards thinking that OP is not really interested in doing the hard work towards a solution, but just want to feed the dog shit it should not have and hoping a pill can solve their problem.
No effort on the fasting/keto meat o ly mentality from OP at least.
Like wtf giving terminal sick dog rice!?
I think OP is also probably overwheight and therefore does not want to look into Ketogenic because it will force introspection regarding existing cognitive dissonance.
Hope I'm wrong though, but been reading these posts since they started and I have given multiple feedback with very little interest from OP.
Reread what you just posted. When you figure out why i dont comment back to you,let me know.
Not going to put more effort in this thread. If you don't want to just say, then fine, it's your dog.
Posting here just to gather sympathy instead of doing the difficult decision is not going to save your dog.
Taking mine and others advice on the other hand will..
“Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose.”
— Rosie Perez
I think it's more lack of knowledge or a lot of trust in his vet. Doctors recommend rice as part of the BRAT diet when people are sick because it's easy to digest. And then vets always recommend meat and rice when a dog or cat is sick. Or broth or baby food. And rice is cheap.
Vets, like doctors, may want sick patients, and also not be trained in nutrition or homeopathy.
Heck, half the time doctors don’t know about pharmaceutical conflicts.
It’s why we have to do that side investigation ourselves and not take them as an authority, but as a potentially useful tool to get to things we’ve learned we need.
Also, regarding comments on OP, it can be very difficult to filter through the noise when already in a stressful state and especially when getting a lot of excess and conflicting guidance. Anon is doing ok. Everybody has room for improvement all the time.
Might be good to see a pet nutritionist with a prepared list of options and suggestions from here if help is needed to filter through the noise. They can probably be found available for web appointments.
Vets are businesspeople first. They have to make revenue or everyone goes home. They def recommend revenue enhancing treatments more than is needed. Lets just say it like that.
Being a businessperson shouldn’t require selling products that create their own demand - which is known, legally, as racketeering.
I keep pointing out, the solution to this is to behave like Trump in the 80’s, where he was famous for threatening to sue everybody.
I'm glad OP's vet is open to the fenben treatments and willing to give dosage guidance. That's more than a lot of others would be willing to do.
I also feel OP is trying everything, but nothing too drastic. Leaving it up to his pup on what she wants to eat just to get her to eat something.
The truth about rice has only started going mainstream within the past year, and it's started with babies and their cereal. Still being recommended for adults and animals when they're sick, as far as I know anyways.
Maybe should switch to some nice ground cricket meal.
Main problem with docs/vets is they are trained wrong, believe 100% in their wrong training, and find it impossible to consider the possibility that some ragtag renegades on the internet might be right at the expense of them being wrong.
"It is difficult to get a man to believe something, if his salary depends upon him not believing it." -- Upton Sinclair
It’s super fun to call them out on it, too!
I should be able to say, “I think this, tell me whether it’s totally off-base, and the pros and cons of it.” and get an educated response in less time than I can come up with it.
I forgot about this thread.
Just found it again.
I agree with you.