This is an update to those of you who asked me to come back here and let you guys know who Izzy is doing. Thank you for your concern and caring.
Justices mom, i believe you were right about giardia.
i did not do baby food with turkey. I gave her probotics and after the meds were done, I got her on a non chicken/turkey food. Her stools were normal. I am feeding her natural balance all flavors except chicken. i was so excited my friend was over here and he agreed normal stools, i even took photos and showed my best gf, ya i know gross but after what she went through. poor little girl was being fed something she was allergic too the whole time and almost died from it. Still doing probiotics since she still needs to build healthy bacteria.
As i suspected she has a chicken allergy, how do i know this? I fed all non chicken natural balance different flavors and noticed normal stool, fed one day of chix natural balance mooshy stool, next day non chicken natural balance normal stool. she will be staying on natural balance non chix products.
she is doing well with potty training, barks to tell me to go out or whines. There have still been a couple of accidents which i almost welcome just to see her normal formed stool that i can clean up with no smearing horrible smelling mess. My friends border collies trainer,/nutrionalist who is degreed and specializes in hearding breeds such as shelties and collies and border collies, has a suspicion that with the blue rings in izzys eyes that she has a recessive merle gene at least. if the markings come out more she suspects her to be a cryptic blue, i was also informed that merles have a more sensitive digestion system, and actually told me to not do chix because of what i had suspected. (of course i have listened to her, because she has more knowledge then i do and told me what i wondered all along)
she is now 12 weeks old and has learned to come up and down the stairs, knows her name, knows how to sit (most of the time she sits when i ask her too.) sometimes will shake paws. 8 pounds. 3lbs between last week and this week gained. sooooo happy!
no seizures, but they tend to hit her at the first of the month. so im hoping just as the woman with the chi w the chix allergy, the seizures disappeared will be the same case as with izzy. her second set of shots are coming up sept 26th.
she has some goregous markings starting to come out with her grey blue, the spots are big time coming out on her feet and even up her leg and on the back of her legs. you can see grey blue swirls in between the dark black on her tail like someone bleached some of her coat, just a little bit. same on her back and head. she is getting grey and tan spots on the front of her feet. her snout is where the white was above her nose is turning grey. the once white spot on her head is grey blue.
im looking forward to the many years i have to come with her now and trying to patiently wait for her markings to come out, its exciting to see how much she is changing week to week now. its honestly amazing what happens when you put a dog on the right food that she isnt allergic too. she is quite an amazing little girl.
she learned that its fun to jump in my basket of clothes and go to sleep, instant bed. she also learned its fun to smack momma in the face and bark at her at 3am and 8am to go potty.
now jake has been amazing too, he has been jumping in my bed and sleeping with me too. Jake and i are still walking 5 miles every couple of days, and he gets mad at me and barks when i dont take him walking. Izzy hasn't gone out walking yet, I know there is no way she can do 5 miles with me, cannot wait until she is older so she can.
Izzy is one lucky girl that her momma loves her so much, she is lucky to be alive. one thing i have learned is to always follow your gut instinct when you dont agree with your vet. (though i do really think she did have giardia, after the living situation she was in, im sure they all did.)
ill update with some photos soon.
thank you to those that cared and asked me to post an update!
Justices mom, i believe you were right about giardia.
i did not do baby food with turkey. I gave her probotics and after the meds were done, I got her on a non chicken/turkey food. Her stools were normal. I am feeding her natural balance all flavors except chicken. i was so excited my friend was over here and he agreed normal stools, i even took photos and showed my best gf, ya i know gross but after what she went through. poor little girl was being fed something she was allergic too the whole time and almost died from it. Still doing probiotics since she still needs to build healthy bacteria.
As i suspected she has a chicken allergy, how do i know this? I fed all non chicken natural balance different flavors and noticed normal stool, fed one day of chix natural balance mooshy stool, next day non chicken natural balance normal stool. she will be staying on natural balance non chix products.
she is doing well with potty training, barks to tell me to go out or whines. There have still been a couple of accidents which i almost welcome just to see her normal formed stool that i can clean up with no smearing horrible smelling mess. My friends border collies trainer,/nutrionalist who is degreed and specializes in hearding breeds such as shelties and collies and border collies, has a suspicion that with the blue rings in izzys eyes that she has a recessive merle gene at least. if the markings come out more she suspects her to be a cryptic blue, i was also informed that merles have a more sensitive digestion system, and actually told me to not do chix because of what i had suspected. (of course i have listened to her, because she has more knowledge then i do and told me what i wondered all along)
she is now 12 weeks old and has learned to come up and down the stairs, knows her name, knows how to sit (most of the time she sits when i ask her too.) sometimes will shake paws. 8 pounds. 3lbs between last week and this week gained. sooooo happy!
no seizures, but they tend to hit her at the first of the month. so im hoping just as the woman with the chi w the chix allergy, the seizures disappeared will be the same case as with izzy. her second set of shots are coming up sept 26th.
she has some goregous markings starting to come out with her grey blue, the spots are big time coming out on her feet and even up her leg and on the back of her legs. you can see grey blue swirls in between the dark black on her tail like someone bleached some of her coat, just a little bit. same on her back and head. she is getting grey and tan spots on the front of her feet. her snout is where the white was above her nose is turning grey. the once white spot on her head is grey blue.
im looking forward to the many years i have to come with her now and trying to patiently wait for her markings to come out, its exciting to see how much she is changing week to week now. its honestly amazing what happens when you put a dog on the right food that she isnt allergic too. she is quite an amazing little girl.
she learned that its fun to jump in my basket of clothes and go to sleep, instant bed. she also learned its fun to smack momma in the face and bark at her at 3am and 8am to go potty.
now jake has been amazing too, he has been jumping in my bed and sleeping with me too. Jake and i are still walking 5 miles every couple of days, and he gets mad at me and barks when i dont take him walking. Izzy hasn't gone out walking yet, I know there is no way she can do 5 miles with me, cannot wait until she is older so she can.
Izzy is one lucky girl that her momma loves her so much, she is lucky to be alive. one thing i have learned is to always follow your gut instinct when you dont agree with your vet. (though i do really think she did have giardia, after the living situation she was in, im sure they all did.)
ill update with some photos soon.
thank you to those that cared and asked me to post an update!
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