Miko's Tummy Trouble -Part 485

Oh no, not another set back for poor Miko!:no:
I've always steered well away from pork as a friend's sheltie suffered some ill effects many years ago. However, I expect the ILs have slipped some to the boys when I've not been looking:rolleyes2:

Being positive though at least you know this event was 'triggered' by something rather than coming out of the blue so you know the low residue diet is working.

Me and the boys (in particular Yogi) send our love to you and Miko and hope he is on the mend soon. I often wish Yogi and Miko could meet up with each other, I'm sure they'd get on really well:winkgrin:
 
Bad Dad :uhoh:
my Dad has been instructed to never feed people food- he has access to allowed treats in handy spot so he can give those when the pups give him the sheltie look :smile2:
hope Miko is feeling better :yes:
 
There is nothing wrong with pork. My dogs got big hunks'o'pork for breakfast this morning. I have no idea where they "don't feed pork to dogs" came from, but it's nothing but an old wives tale. However, feeding just the fat would upset any dog, especially one with digestion issues. Poor Miko. At least his appetite doesn't seem to be suffering.
 
Poor Miko :( A lot of dogs can't tolerate pork. Just like Ann's Pixie, Bailey had a very sensitive stomach. It took about 10 months, but now she has a pretty strong stomach. So hopefully, Miko will be the same way and grow out of it.
 
Just checking in to say that I think we're back to normal this morning. Uuuuhhmmm... back on "solid" ground so to speak :wink2:

I'm wondering now, and I guess I'll never know without conducting a test.. and that's NOT going to happen... if Miko's loose stools weren't caused by stress, rather than the one little piece of pork fat. My dad has 2 LARGE dogs... one of them a 15mo old Boerboel (google it!!) that didn't actually like Miko very much. She snapped and snarled at him a few times, and freaked him out a bit.

Anyway, we seem to be back on the right track... and between pork fat and grouchy dogs... I think Miko's going to skip dinners at grandpa's from now on!! :razz:
 
Glad to hear Miko is back on the right track again. I have to agree with maybe keeping Miko away from Dad's house. I don't take my pups to the boyfriends house because his Westie sits under the coffe table and every move Chandler makes she lunges out and attacks him. We tried to work it out a couple weekends so we could move in together and Chandler and Gypsy wouldn't eat and were a nervous wreck. After 10 years of dating we still reside in separate households. I guess you can see who I love more. Yup its the pups.:lol::lol::lol:
 
Happy to hear Miko is back on track. Sounds like a "one-time" thing to me. (up until that point Miko was doing so well) (your Dad gave Miko that pork fat). My Uncle Oscar used to give Mally "people food" when we would go over there for dinner on Sundays. Whenever Mally would come along on Monday morning Mally would be sick. It would take him till Tuesday for his system to be back to normal.
 
I just read some info on "exocrine pancreatic insufficiency". I know that it's a slippery slope to start finding diagnoses on the internet... but this sounds a lot like what's going on with Miko. :(

Anything higher in fat than either plain chicken breast & rice and/or low-residue food (approx. 2.8% fat) gives him diarrhea/poops the consistency of pudding. He's eating 3 meals a day of chicken & rice mixed with the low-residue food and he's still really skinny. The part about the coat/hair doesn't really fit, though. His adult coat is coming in VERY thick and nicely. (it's still too short and looks a bit choppy, but it's definitely improving!)

He does seem like he's always hungry and I'm sure he'd eat the entire pot of chicken & rice if I let him... but that fits the profile of pretty much every dog I've ever met! :razz:

Anyway... I think I'm going to ask for some blood work to determine his level of digestive enzymes. In a way I know that it would be nice to have a diagnosis... on the other hand, the possiblity of finding out that the he's going to need life-long medications is so depressing. :cry:

The last paragraph of the info I read says...

We occasionally see patients in which the pancreatic insufficiency is only temporary and somehow resolves itself in 6 to 8 months, but these are rare exceptions. In these cases, it is thought that the cells responsible for the production of the enzymes have been irritated in some way but not permanently damaged. When they recover from the incident, whatever it was, their ability to produce these enzymes returns.


Please keep your fingers crossed that Miko falls into that category!!
 
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