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labblab
How great to meet another member of the Marianne sisterhood — there aren’t a whole bunch of us around! ;-)))))))))))
We’ll certainly be wishing you girls well on your stim test tomorrow, and we’ll be watching for your update. I wish I could give you some great dietary advice, but our experience here throughout the years has been that there doesn’t seem to be any one particular type or style of food that works better or worse with Cushpups — it all comes down to individual health profiles and tolerances.
I do want to offer one cautionary note about the pumpkin. Paradoxically — and again, depending upon individual tolerances — fiber can help with both diarrhea and constipation. With some dogs, it helps firm up stools, but it can make stools even runnier for some dogs. I have irritable bowel episodes myself, and a high-fiber diet is helpful to me. However, my own dogs have never responded well to pumpkin during episodes of diarrhea, and if anything, it’s made things worse for them. I am not a vet, so I don’t mean to challenge your vet’s recommendation. However, if Maggie’s stools were A-OK prior to the Vetoryl, I don’t know that I would want to introduce any new dietary variables right now when you’re attempting to determine whether or not Vetoryl will be an ongoing culprit. In other words, if she starts having diarrhea again after starting back with the Vetoryl and also beginning the pumpkin, how do you sort out the genuine cause? If it was me, in terms of dietary additions, I believe I’d try to stick it out with the Vetoryl alone for at least a week or so, in order to see whether or not her system adjusts on its own. Just a thought for you to consider...
One question for you, though. Can you tell us more about her CBD chews? I’d love to find a CBD option with some firm research backing for my own arthritic girl.
Marianne