Molly, 13 yr, shih tzu - lhasa aspo - Molly has passed

Seems to be the food. The SO and maturity are both giving her the bad poops from what I can tell and when I use the Fromms food the poops have been some of the best ever. (the beef one gave an excellent poop I must say) However, and this is fine, as I'm using the sample up and will get some feedback from that trial run, but the fat content is too high for prolonged use, so I'll check out the maturity and less active senior food, as they have the least amount of fat content. (one of those you feed to Tipper)

I don't know if the kidney stones being small will throw off the UPC or not it's possible. Another question to follow up on.

It's true, we do birthday celebrations a lot around here. I think it is because neither of us have any extended family here, just our immediate, which is small, so our friends over the years have become our family, and each other, we do a lot for each other and spoil each other as much as we can and of course molly our baby.

Today will be a busy day as we'll be in and out, so I won't be on the forum that much.

hugs
Sharlene and molly muffin

And throwing the probiotic back on as poop went kaput this evening. Big sigh.

Orangish. Is that liver? I was thinking it is. I know her liver supplement is bright orange in color too. But when her poops go off they seem to be orange.

Hugs
Sharlene and Molly muffin

Hi Sharlene

If liver is off and it has to be way off to change poop colour, the colour of poop changes to pale greyish and the urine to orangey or dark. That is because the bile which gives poop its brown colour cannot get through the liver so spills back into the bloodstream and excreted through the kidneys hence the dark colour in the pee. So don't be worrying about liver here! Maybe is a bug, might be time for a poop specimen? x

Sharlene, Daisy's poops were orange and then yellow diarrhea when she contracted guardia. I would look into that since it requires antibiotics to get rid of. Hope she feels better soon!

Sharlene, it seems like most every time Jasper gets colitis, his poops are orangish at some point. This is usually an indicator that I need to start metronidazole. Hope Molly's tummy settles soon.

Hugs,
Tina and Jasper

hmmm, interesting. I'm glad it's not his liver. Guess I'll have to take a specimen in and get them to check it. It hasn't returned to diarrhea, but it has gone soft. Strange because she didn't get any SO food today just the Fromm's. Two times today now it has been formed, but very soft.

I'll see what the morning brings.

I'm sleeping in tomorrow I hope. I've already told molly she best be planning have a lie in too. (she seldom listens) At least she doesn't act like she feels bad, had a nice walk tonight when we got home.

Tomorrow we have stepdaughter and her boyfriend here. They plus hubs are cooking breakfast for me. (prob more like brunch as I have no plans to move too early in the day)

I am going to get little miss straightened out one way or another. :) I wonder if it isn't colitis, or a bit of IBD with her and how often she gets this. So now I wonder if it was the food or not. I thought I had it figured out, because after the first Fromm's that day she had the best poops she's probably had since she was young, perfect poops. Now I wonder though. Drat it.

Marianne, I am inclined to think that molly does have cushings (due to the consistently higher cortisol and now the adrenal tumor) but I am hoping an LDDS test in June will tell us if things have changed and she will now test positive on the LDDS or not. If that adrenal tumor is functioning, don't you think it would show up on the LDDS now?

Then we are still back to the same question. Do we treat or not with her not having symptoms still. I measure water intake, check her food intake and what she eats, how much. Even the Fromms which she loves, she didn't eat all at breakfast, but came back in and grazed later. I kept thinking I must be missing something but I can't figure out what it would be. :(

hugs all, enough of this for one night. :)

Sharlene and molly muffin

I guess its hard to tell if she is still eating a little of both. Maybe transition fully to one type of food and see how she goes... not too fast either. Maybe that is what happened after she had the Fromm's with her tummy getting used to new food it just had a little spazzy attack hence the lastest soft ones?

That could be too Trish. :)

I think I just ran out of energy. Not use to late nights 3 nights in a row any more.
LOL

hugs,
Sharlene and molly muffin

Sharlene:
Sorry to hear Molly is still not doing well with the poops. It does sound like colitis or IBD. I guess you will have to keep her on one food or the other to nail down the cause. I am sure you will get this under wraps soon. I hope Molly lets you sleep in and you have a wonderful breakfast. Happy Mothers Day Sharlene. Blessings
Patti

Poop report please?!?! Hope its settled down by now! You sound like a week to recover from all the lunches and dinners out would be good about now!! Sounds like you had a nice Mother's Day too... brekky in bed is always a winner :DWishing you a nice and easy work week :)

Still no report for us, Mike is back from his holiday and emailed today to say he did not have it either so he is going to email the IMS. This is the longest I have ever had to wait for a report, first time seeing this guy too! Maybe tomorrow. :rolleyes: x