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Thanks for all that dogdayz, most appreciated :p

Oh dogdayz, if we could get some weight on Tajah like that I would be so incredibly happy!

Ohhhh health care card...bugger! Ah well, parents are well off, they wont mind throwing a bit of money away I'm sure :D

Thank you!

That's not useless, that could prove very haaaandy Yes please, I would do anything I could to get Tajah well again, I think my dad has just given up and is distancing himself from the problems...probably thinks that will make it easier if/when things end :D

I can vouch for them growing out of the 'I must tear all the washing off the line and rub it in the mud' phase. Kovu did that for ages, and now he's the one I can trust in the yard with it. Daegon however... :shakehead:

Professional advice definitely needed. Two males, both starting to come into maturity...bones? Disaster area, never, ever, ever again. Naughty you :D

Thank you for your reply, I will be passing it all on!

Not Supercoat Supercoat is a very cheap food and you can do a LOT better :D If you can afford to perhaps look into a super premium dry food, such as Royal Canin (giant breed puppy), Nutro or Eaglepack. I would be feeding Nutro or Royal Canin if I could afford to. You may also want to feed your puppy a raw diet, called BARF (bones and raw food). Use the search function here to find many, many threads on this diet. Personally, I wont raise a puppy on BARF, I've heard good and bad. Everybody is entitled to their own opinions and beliefs and I would certainly not think anything negative if someone chose to raise their puppy on BARF, it's just not for me and my pups...as adults, yes that's fine.

Off topic, sorry...but good to see you back espinay!

I have told mum that she needs to make sure something different is done. I just wish I could bring her back here and take care of her

A long time ago the vet prescribed Thrive D, after a month they changed it because it did nothing for her. She is now on enzyplex. I still don't know about the bacterial growth and whether she was tested/treated for it. Will hopefully find out sometime tonight

Thanks everyone, I will let my mum know the choices when she comes online tonight. After doing some reading I was also wondering if they are not giving her enough of the enzyme powder...which has been changed from Thrive D to Enzyplex. I think dad has been told by the vet that it needs to be low fibre not sure though, he could just be thinking that himself because she's constantly got diarrhea...and who wouldn't on Pal!

I'm not sure about the other tests sorry, my dad wont be home until later tonight so I can ask him then. Trying to get my dad to feed Tajah anything other than pal is a bloody nightmare, I don't know how many arguments I have had with him over it. His excuse is that if he changes her food she just gets the runs...I tell him that's normal when you switch food over quickly, and he just gets angry and refuses to be told anything different. Arrrrrrrrr! ;) I've just spoken to mum about it and she said "your father WILL change her food because I have said so", mum wears the pants I guess she'll try a couple of different things and see which one works best, whether that be a prescription diet, BARF or a bit of both. I just so hope Tajah puts on weight, she really is skin over bone at the moment, it's so sad

EPI = Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency

I'm wondering if putting her on a BARF diet would help?

EPI, as I said in the title Apparently she cannot eat a lot of foods with EPI because they are too high in fibre/fat and so they all go straight through her regardless of being on the special powder.

I have posted about my father's dog before, and now that they have a definite diagnosis my mother wants to know what she can do. Dad is of the opinion that 'nothing works' but mum wants to keep trying. Tajah is a walking skeleton, it's awful to see. She also has all the lipids soaking through her skin into her coat, making her oily and very, very smelly. She has the powder with her food that she's supposed to have, but dad is keeping her on PAL or some other type of food along those lines...apparently she does 'best' on that as it's low fibre and low fat? Surely there's a better food she could eat? My mum really wants to find a way to put some weight on Tajah, she has been this skinny for a long time now, and her heart is going to give up if she stays this way. Mum has said she's prepared to try anything, so if anyone has experienced this, or knows of something that might work, please let me know

Beautiful His sitting position at the window cracked me up

Glad to hear he (and you!) are doing better today. Hope it's all OK on Friday at the vets

Same here. Both my dogs have had a few good scruffings for trying it on as puppies. A dog should not growl at you, not even if you wake it up...there would be big trouble in this house if one of my dogs did that

If you bath that often you will strip the natural protective oils from the coat and skin. I only bath my guys when they smell because they've been in something they shouldn't be

What a great long life for a Rottweiler. RIP Saxon

So sorry Trish RIP Lola

A beautiful tribute RIP Blondie