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Hi all, Nice to know there is another group out there and such great info! I have looked at this site before when Aria was first diagnosed about two months ago. Sarah told be about the forum, that I overlooked the other times I have looked up info. My Ari is doing pretty good right now, just got off Tylan and fingers crossed seems to be ok without it. Robin and Aria ******** Welcome Robin and Aria, Great news Sarah introduced you to this forum. So pleased to hear Aria is doing well.. Feel free to post any questions or share your experiences, especially with our friends who have just had been diagnosed with EPI...as I am sure you know, its good to know you're not on your own. Look forward to hearing of Aria's progress.... Request - Photo's of Aria would be great...we love to share our companions. | |
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-- Owned mind, body and soul by a German Shepherd called Bonnie. Forever in my heart 6th September 2007 - 23rd September 2009 x Forever grateful I found this forum x
Bridie (6 year old Lurcher) and Sadie (16 months old German Shepherd, a rescue dog) guided to us by Bonnie's paw
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Welcome Robin and Aria, as Debra said it would be lovely to see a picture of Aria.
Warm wishes Elly and Tyler | |
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-- Elly from the UK owned by long haired GSD called Tyler ...8 months old. 9/27/09 Weight 52 pounds.... TLI = 4.4 not diagnosed as EPI but commenced on Panzym. Cobalamin = 339 .. Folate = 14.6 .. Nature diet puppy/junior and Eukanuba puppy. 11/13/09 update - weight 69 lbs, Enzymes discontinued.
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A warm welcome Robin and Aria to this epi family forum. It is music to our ears to hear that Aria is doing well! Love to see some pics of your beautiful girl.
Warmest best wishes, Julie & Angel | |
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-- Angel, German Shepherd. Diagnosed epi 14th Aug. 09. TLI result 2. B12 *683 - Very good range. Folate 13.2 - normal. Lowest weight 30kg/66lbs. Went up to 33.3kg/73.2lbs in ten days. Heaviest weight 40.75kg / 81lb. Now on steady diet - current weight 39.5kg / 79lb. Orijen diet. Good on Total-Zymes, plant-based enzymes in addition to CREON 10000 enzymes for giving treats, but recently changed fully over to CREON for convenience. Angel is currently stable. Julie ~ UK Dog Logic: The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~ Anonymous
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A very warm welcome from us too Robin & Aria. Pleased you have found us. Ask any questions that you like & there will always be someone here that can help you. Will look forward to hearing more about you & Aria & perhaps seeing a pic. of Aria.
Lynn & girls. | |
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-- Lynn, From Melbourne, Australia. Owned by Tess (Irish Setter), Grace (English Setter) & Megg, my beautiful 'English' EPI Angel - Forever in my heart. .
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Welcome Robin and Aria.
It's nice to hear Aria is doing well and as others have said, pictures would be great. | |
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-- Kathy and Ted 9 yr old GSD rescue ~72 lbs now 109 lbs
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Welcome Robin and Aria!!! | |
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A very warm welcome to you Robin and Aria! That is great that Aria appears to be doing well.... and that she just finished her round of Tylan. We'll keep our fingers crossed for ya.... and please do post pictures when you can. | |
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-- Olesia, owned by Izzy-45lb SWD, Diagnosed at 1.5 years old - TLI results 1.3, Stable almost 7 yrs! Once stable, was able to reduce enzymes to only 1/2 tsp of Enzymes with each meal, but after almost 4 years of stabilization... had to increase the amount of enzymes to 3/4 teaspoon with each meal. Feed various grain-free kibble+real meat, 6x pancreatin enzymes from EnzymeDiane. I give 1 tsp of coconut oil one day and 1 tsp salmon oil next day, and also give canned sardines packed without salt or canned herring for extra omega oils.
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Welcome Robin and Aria. Sarah is right, this is a great place for information and support. Sending good thoughts that Aria continues to do well now that she's finshed her Tylan. I'm going to sound like a broken record here...but please feel free to post pictures...we all love critterkid pictures. | |
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-- Linda, Akira, Indy and the bratcats Akira 101 lb GSD, DOB 9/18/03 Dx'd around her first birthday. First TLI score 1.1, retested 9/07 score had lowered to 0.7. "Normally" eats 2 cups Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Canine Formula, twice daily. 2 t Pancreatin (or 1 t per cup of food) 8x enzymes given right before each meal in heaping t meat baby food with warm water and mixed to a gruel type texture.
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-- Robin & Aria,S.F.CA , gsd, dob 12/08, 55lbs @ 8mos. b4 dx on 8/12/09 tli score 1.0, co/181 fo/6.7 46. Restested co&fo 9/4/09 co1000 fo18.6 (Did 5 wks Tylan.) 2C. ground dvp no grain chicken s.p. w/ 2t. Diane's enz. incubated 1 hr 3x. 1/2t.L-glut 2x, 1/4t. chlorella 1x, primal defense kids 1/4t.1x, Tylan 2x, metagenics intrinsi B12 1x. Now 74lbs & gaining. suffers from on going sibo.
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Hi Robin, Aria is a beautiful girl. Looks like she is having fun and really enjoys being and playing in the water. Tyler also likes the water as we live near the sea, so he's walks are usually on the beach, where he takes the opportunity to have a dip.
Warm Wishes Elly and Tyler | |
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-- Elly from the UK owned by long haired GSD called Tyler ...8 months old. 9/27/09 Weight 52 pounds.... TLI = 4.4 not diagnosed as EPI but commenced on Panzym. Cobalamin = 339 .. Folate = 14.6 .. Nature diet puppy/junior and Eukanuba puppy. 11/13/09 update - weight 69 lbs, Enzymes discontinued.
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Hi Robin, WOW... Aria is certainly beautiful .... love the river photo... it looks so nice and clean! My Rico (non-epi guy) as a pup, also loved to watch airplanes, anytime we'd say "Rico, look, the plane, the plane" he'd make us laugh cause he would scan the skies for airpplanes | |
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-- Olesia, owned by Izzy-45lb SWD, Diagnosed at 1.5 years old - TLI results 1.3, Stable almost 7 yrs! Once stable, was able to reduce enzymes to only 1/2 tsp of Enzymes with each meal, but after almost 4 years of stabilization... had to increase the amount of enzymes to 3/4 teaspoon with each meal. Feed various grain-free kibble+real meat, 6x pancreatin enzymes from EnzymeDiane. I give 1 tsp of coconut oil one day and 1 tsp salmon oil next day, and also give canned sardines packed without salt or canned herring for extra omega oils.
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Hi Robin, My word, Aria is a beautiful lassy! I love the pics ....... very natural and extremely appealing. Aria is certainly a water babe!
Warmest best wishes, Julie & Angel | |
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-- Angel, German Shepherd. Diagnosed epi 14th Aug. 09. TLI result 2. B12 *683 - Very good range. Folate 13.2 - normal. Lowest weight 30kg/66lbs. Went up to 33.3kg/73.2lbs in ten days. Heaviest weight 40.75kg / 81lb. Now on steady diet - current weight 39.5kg / 79lb. Orijen diet. Good on Total-Zymes, plant-based enzymes in addition to CREON 10000 enzymes for giving treats, but recently changed fully over to CREON for convenience. Angel is currently stable. Julie ~ UK Dog Logic: The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~ Anonymous
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Thank you for the pictures...they are wonderful. She's a beautiful girl and I'm glad that she's doing better. I have a water baby too...and she also chases contrails. Aren't these critters of ours amazing? Feel free to post more pictures anytime you want and updates are always appreciated. | |
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-- Linda, Akira, Indy and the bratcats Akira 101 lb GSD, DOB 9/18/03 Dx'd around her first birthday. First TLI score 1.1, retested 9/07 score had lowered to 0.7. "Normally" eats 2 cups Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Canine Formula, twice daily. 2 t Pancreatin (or 1 t per cup of food) 8x enzymes given right before each meal in heaping t meat baby food with warm water and mixed to a gruel type texture.
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Welcome to the group. Your Aria is lovely girl and Julie is right the picture is very appealing and natural. I do wish my Razzy was a water baby but she is FAR to prissy to get her great hoofs wet. So glad to hear Aria is doing good.... do you have any more pic? | |
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Val ...... Angel is the same .... too prissy to get her hoofs wet, unless her toy has landed in a soggy patch! I only ever had one dog who loved the water, a half collie/Lab.
Warmest best wishes, Julie & Angel | |
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-- Angel, German Shepherd. Diagnosed epi 14th Aug. 09. TLI result 2. B12 *683 - Very good range. Folate 13.2 - normal. Lowest weight 30kg/66lbs. Went up to 33.3kg/73.2lbs in ten days. Heaviest weight 40.75kg / 81lb. Now on steady diet - current weight 39.5kg / 79lb. Orijen diet. Good on Total-Zymes, plant-based enzymes in addition to CREON 10000 enzymes for giving treats, but recently changed fully over to CREON for convenience. Angel is currently stable. Julie ~ UK Dog Logic: The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. ~ Anonymous
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Thank you everyone for the nice comments about my Aria. Yes, I must agree she is a beautiful sight to see! and yes she is crazy about water. She loves to swim and I can't keep her away from the hose when I am watering. She also tries to swim in her water bowl. I will put up more pictures, but I would also like to see lots of photos of all of your babes.
Robin and Aria, ps she has had some perfect poops this weekend. I stopped the probiotics, don't know if I should start them up again???
Hope this wasn't to many!!! I have lots of photo's.
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-- Robin & Aria,S.F.CA , gsd, dob 12/08, 55lbs @ 8mos. b4 dx on 8/12/09 tli score 1.0, co/181 fo/6.7 46. Restested co&fo 9/4/09 co1000 fo18.6 (Did 5 wks Tylan.) 2C. ground dvp no grain chicken s.p. w/ 2t. Diane's enz. incubated 1 hr 3x. 1/2t.L-glut 2x, 1/4t. chlorella 1x, primal defense kids 1/4t.1x, Tylan 2x, metagenics intrinsi B12 1x. Now 74lbs & gaining. suffers from on going sibo.
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-- Robin & Aria,S.F.CA , gsd, dob 12/08, 55lbs @ 8mos. b4 dx on 8/12/09 tli score 1.0, co/181 fo/6.7 46. Restested co&fo 9/4/09 co1000 fo18.6 (Did 5 wks Tylan.) 2C. ground dvp no grain chicken s.p. w/ 2t. Diane's enz. incubated 1 hr 3x. 1/2t.L-glut 2x, 1/4t. chlorella 1x, primal defense kids 1/4t.1x, Tylan 2x, metagenics intrinsi B12 1x. Now 74lbs & gaining. suffers from on going sibo.
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Welcome Robin and Aria! Aria is beautiful and she was such a cute pup! I can practically smell the puppy breath :o) There is a great group of people here with excellent information | |
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-- Basia - GSD Mix - Born 7/2002 - Diagnosed 9/17/09 9/17/09 Weight 45 TLI: 0.6 Folate: 18 Cobalamin: 265 Giardia: Positive Treatment: B12 - Once a week for 6 weeks - Next 3 treatments every other week - Then once a month for 2-3 - Metronidazole 500mg for 30 days - Panacurdosed for 5 days - Enzymes: 2 Tsp to 2 cups of food twice a day incubate 45+ minutes Food: DVP Venison and Sweet Potato 11/20/09 Weight 63 02/14/10 Weight 75
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Robin:
There's no such thing as too many pictures lol!!!! She is such a beauty and has personality written all over her expressions. I'm sorry she's got EPI but what a find :). We all have pictures scattered over different pages...start going in and looking, you might be surprised what you'll find. | |
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-- Linda, Akira, Indy and the bratcats Akira 101 lb GSD, DOB 9/18/03 Dx'd around her first birthday. First TLI score 1.1, retested 9/07 score had lowered to 0.7. "Normally" eats 2 cups Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream Canine Formula, twice daily. 2 t Pancreatin (or 1 t per cup of food) 8x enzymes given right before each meal in heaping t meat baby food with warm water and mixed to a gruel type texture.
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Hi Robin and a belated welcome to you! I just love the photos of Aria!!! Such a pretty girl!!! She's obviously a water baby too!:D It's funny, but in my life with GSD's, they either LOVE the water or hate the water...No inbetween! My Bridge dog ADORED water, But my EPI girl simply hates it. My recent (well, three years ago :)) rescue loves it too! Please post as many pitures as you want! We all love viewong them!!!!:D
Donna, Tara, Zoey and Zeke | |
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This is the place to be...I already spent so much time going back to the begining of the forum so much good info here as well as GREAT friends 
Thank you all for the warm welcome! The photo of Aria in the river at 8 mos. of age was taken at the start of her full blown epi, we thought she had plop poops from drinking river water. The profile photo is recent. She loves to watch birds and airplanes. Nice to have a big window to keep her occupied while I'm on the laptop!
1 of seven. 15 days old. The only one awake. Breeder said she was always hyper, a little escape artist, and very smart.
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