Flynn 11 y/o Foxie Cross - Right adrenalectomy- Good Bye Flynny We will miss you

The picture of Flynn and his date is adorable! You go Flynn!

Hi all

Up and down week for us.... back to work was a shock to the system! Hot as heck here with no rain, so unlike all the storms many of you are facing we are looking at drought soon.

Poor Flynn has upset gut AGAIN!!:mad: So annoying for him, but it was the worst I have even seen with watery poops. So back on the metronidazole and probiotics. Changing his diet to turkey, cannot find any good quality canned food here with just turkey, most of them have added chicken in some form which he cannot tolerate. So I am embarking on home cooking. After seeing the watery ones yesterday I got turkey mince and did the mushy rice thing. No poop so far this morning. Been googling home cooking and joined groups on FB so have a couple of recipes up my sleeve. Man he hovered the turkey/rice combo up so think he might like this new diet change!!! If any of you have any advice on what supplements to add I would be grateful. He is on a multivitamin for joint health already.

Hope your all doing well for the start of 2015! xxxx :)

Oh poor Flynny, tummy trouble again.:o I hope it settled right back down soon. So glad he likes the turkey, rice mush. Home cooking , yum!! :p

I hope you're feeling better too, Trish. It seems that you've had that creeping crud for sometime now!:o

Sending healing energy to you both,

Well phoey that poor Flynny is feeling icky. I thought of home cooking for Zoe since she needed such a limited diet but then the raw and honest kitchen worked out for her. I thought Leslie mentioned a few times a Monica Segual (maybe wrong last name) and I thought she formulated diets. Anyway I know Leslie has some contacts for people who do that.

Hopefully the metronidazole will set our boy right. Good to hear he liked the turkey. I like it myself. I told hubby I'm going to start gobbling pretty soon, I eat so much turkey breast!

Hope you are feeling better. I treated Kate and myself to high tea on the 23rd floor of our Hotel Pfister. Lovely afternoon and views were amazing. You could see all of the city from that height.

Let us know how Flynn is.

Yes, Monica Segal would a good one to contact. That's who we will use next time, too. If raw is the way you want to go, talk to Lou Olsen. They both have Yahoo groups, too.

I hope you and Flynny both are feeling much better soon!

Awwww, I'm so sorry about Flynn. I just hate it when poop patrol turns out to be a nightmare! You have high hopes each time you head out the door, but then you end with disappointment and you anxiously await the next go-round. :o

I hope you can arrive at a solution fast. I ended up switching Peg off her Clavamox Friday evening because I saw the beginnings of soft-serve/mucous and I was not wanting to see that worsen over the weekend. I guess Clavamox is supposed to be generally well tolerated and it may have been unrelated. But she had never had it before and it turned out that her e. coli is sensitive to just about everything. So I called the vet before closing and we switched her over to simplicef which she's done fine with in the past. But I still hold my breath every time we head to the yard, regardless. :rolleyes:

Are you feeling better yourself? My ear is still clogged up which initially freaked me out but I now read it can take weeks to resolve. :(

Hey Trish - if you plan to homecook for an extended period of time, you'll definitely want to make sure you understand the supplement side of things and how to keep everything balanced. Like Leslie suggested, Lew Olson is a great resource. Her book Raw & Natural Nutrition is the like the bible of raw feeding, but it also has an excellent few chapters on homecooking, so don't think she's only about raw.

I have off and on homecooked for my pugs for years. I homecooked for Tobey for a solid 8 months before transitioning her back onto The Honest Kitchen.

Hey Trish,
Just checking in real quick here, and I am so sorry to read that Flynn is not feeling well again. Yes, I know that disappointed feeling well when on poop patrol. It sounds like you are pretty sure his diet has caused the issue this time rather than an "indiscretion"? I'm wondering about just trying the bland mushy rice and turkey diet along with the metronidazole and probiotics to get him stabilized and then transitioning him back to what he was eating. If I remember right he was eating a lamb based diet, is that right? You must be thinking that he can't tolerate that now? I know nothing about home cooking Trish, I hope you can find the information you need and it isn't too difficult.

I'm wondering how you are feeling as well. Did you finally kick that nasty cold?

And tell Flynn thanks for the sloppy dog smooch for my post 4000, I loved it! :D :p

I will be watching for an update.

Hugs,
Tina and Jasper xo

Hi all

Thanks for all your comments, I do think this might be due to a "dietary indiscretion"! He is a typical terrier with his nose constantly to the ground on our walks, I have him strictly on leash walks now... well extendable leash so he gets a bit of freedom. But if he comes across something even remotely edible, he will grab it up. So frustrating when I want to give him freedom, but he is not to be trusted and these episodes really knock him. But his poop was yellow and watery a couple of days, but only a couple per day then he did a soft-serve (I like that description Marianne!:)) small one yesterday and that was it! Nothing this morning and I am thinking he must be getting a bit bunged up. But I guess it is like that in humans when you have had a bug, then tonight he has had two almost constipated yellowish poops. So hopefully he will get going normally again now.

Not much turkey about here, all I can find in the supermarkets is either shaved turkey meat and it was smoked or frozen rolled roasts with stuffing inside. Neither really appropriate for a dog. I did luck upon some turkey mince on Saturday which he had over the weekend with mushy rice. But that supermarket does not have it regularly when I enquired.

I had ordered his usual food but swapped to venison/fish mixture as he seemed to go off the lamb a bit at the end of last week, tried to cancel it but courier delivered it today. So I have given him that tonight and he gobbled it down like a dog starved. I think the metronidazole has got rid of the bug, whatever it was. So if it carries on I am still considering home cooking, not raw. Thanks for the contacts Addy, Leslie and Renee I will definitely contact one of them to get advice on supplements etc if I go down that path. I can order turkey to get shipped to me from the other end of the country, but boy is it expensive!! I came across a company called Mauri via Sharlene's googling skills, that does a turkey grain free canned product with no added chicken that sounded perfect. It was marketed as a NZ product, using a Maori name... but I had never heard of it. But on searching their website stockists cannot even buy it here!! LOL they only sell in North America. I emailed them and he wanted to know how I heard about them, then next email said he would help me and send samples. Then he wanted me to get my pet store to contact them LOL... all too hard!!! Was just weird that is sounded very New Zealand, but it wasn't and is manufactured in the US!!

I am feeling better thank you all, took 3 weeks to kick it and finally my ear is clear!! :D So hope yours will come right soon Marianne. xx

Hi Trish!! Can you believe I've finally gotten back on the forum. I hope Flynn's tummy trouble cleared up by now. We go through much the same. Since my vet gave me a bottle of metronidazole tablets it has been much easier to control these episodes. I think Trixie has a touch of irritable bowel or something similar and I did some reading about the use of metrod. for this...apparently it helps though they don't really know why. When I asked the vet could I give a half tab for a couple of days when her poops start to act up..or did it have to be a full course of treatment. She told me popping a few is just fine...so that's what I do. For instance Trixie woke up at 3am and wanted out...when my husband got in with her he reported poops were not terrible but a little soft..that's all I need to hear...soft poops combined with the unusual need to go out at that hour and I know she needs a half tab! It does the trick every time. It did not escalate into a full out attack of the bad poops or vomiting. If I hear a lot of gurgling from her belly over the course of the course of the evening I will give her one. It seems to really help us to stave off the real bad stuff.
I have to say after our bout of whatever it was last year when we winded up in the e/r , I get paranoid about her digestive tract. Nothing was ever conclusive last year...they suspected pancreatitis but the tests didn't fully support it. Meanwhile metrod. for now is helping so much and (knocking wood) it's been awhile since we even needed one!!
Hope all is well with Flynn...I've got to click on to the photos and see his newest pics!! :D:D:D:D:D See you on Facebook!! ;)

Barbara