So glad to read that Zoe is doing better!
Speaking from very personal experience, it is quite easy!! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by addy
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So glad to read that Zoe is doing better!
Speaking from very personal experience, it is quite easy!! :(Quote:
Originally Posted by addy
It is so weird, I have to always be so careful, I could not even give her a raw diet with fruit and veggies in it, she could not tolerate it, she gets diahrrea just thinking about eating something different, her system is so touchy.
She get's Nature's Menu turkey, 70% muscle meat, 30% organ meat, no bone, synthetic calcium instead of bone is in the food with viatmins and minerals. I add 1 tablespoon per meal of Honest Kitchen Embark. Up until now I could never even increase the Embark without getting mushy stools.
The only fruit I could give her is one blackberry. She can eat rice, maybe a smidgen of oatmeal, pumpkin and that is about it.
So I guess we will now learn why she is suddenly going through constipation.:(:(
Addy
Addy,
So glad Zoe is doing better and you too. You are lucky to haave stocked up on the pumpkin because it doesn't exist here in the grocery stores. Quite a while back I went looking for it to make some muffins and the store manager said they always had it before, but this past year it isn't....
Talk to you later---falling asleep typing this--haha!!
Hope you and Zoe are doing better. I found pumpkin in some organic baby food, but I can't find it in the grocery store again. The fruits I give Apollo are a slice of apple each day, blueberries a few times a week, melon. Apollo would eat anything. We take better care of our little fur balls and too often forget to take care of ourselves.
Apollo almost has two drawers in the refrigerator, two sliding drawers on the kitchen counter, a portable pantry in the kitchen. What does that say about me? But when he looks at me with those big brown eyes and the floppy ears, I do melt.
Hi Sonja and Squirt's Mom,
Zoe LOVES apples! I mean she goes nuts for them. I had to stop giving them to her when she first came down with colitis.
I wonder if she could have a slice a day again like Apollo now that she is constipated?
I think I will try just a little and see how it goes.
Thanks everyone for all the good suggestions.
Oh, since the lignans are fiber and may cause loose stools, do you think that they might help with her constipation? I asked Dr. Oliver that question and he said he did not think they worked that way. I'm confused:(
Addy
Hi Addy,
Some stores now have Stokley's plain pumpkin. I just got some for Corky. Some of the bigger grocery store chains are now starting to carry it.
Terri
Thanks Terri!
I had cans of pumpkin put away but if I am supplementing her food long term, I don't have enough. Her vet won't let me change her diet till we are stable on lysodren.
We will go tonite and look at some other stores.
Thanks again for the help:)
Addy
If my memory serves me, the pumpkin shortage is because of flooding the fields last season, rotting the pumpkins. Hopefully, they will have had a better growing season this year and they will be available again soon!
Hugs,
Leslie and the girls - always
Hi Leslie,
I asked Dr.Oliver since the lignans are fiber and may cause loose stools, could they act as other fibers and bulk up the stools, absorbing more water, like the pumpkin does.
He thought they did not work that way.
I thought well, if they are fiber and I don't know if they are considered soluble or insoluble fiber, could they not be beneficial for Zoe?
What do ya think????????????????? Or is it not enough fiber to matter? If it can cause diahrrea, you think it would matter.:confused:
Please, oh wise one, your opinion on this matter:D:D
Addy
Let me do a little research on nutrient content for the hulls and I'll get back to you. The "wise one" LOL :o has no idea...LOL