| Lily, my long haired, female, spayed
German Shepherd Dog was diagnosed with Epi many years ago. What made
it bad was I worked for a vet (I'm no longer at that vet) who kept telling
me Lily was just hyper. Her blood work all came back normal as did her
lipase and amylase testing.
After she dropped to 55lbs I took
things into my own hands, I requested a TLI test be done, the vet pooh
poohed it but 1 week later test came back positive.
The female vet I worked for at the
Emergency Vet clinic on weekends said get her
After more searching I finally put
Lily on BURNS Real Food for Dogs. It's got a lower protein than I'd like
but I add cottage cheese.
I supplement her diet with cottage
cheese, a daily multi vitamin, B12, FOS
She gets metronidzaole (flagyl)
for the occasional bout of SIBO which has only happened once this year.
She gets low fat cookies for treats and very little else.
Lily now weighs in at about 75#. Not a Vet or Vet Tech.....YET!!!
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Many thanks Ellen for sharing Lily's story
with us.
Yet another happy, healthy epi pup.
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