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Wallace was at the vets this morning for a weight and health check; He has now been on the Lypex for four weeks and his weight has increased from 36.4 pounds on 12th June, today (10th June) he weighs 42.3 pounds He looks great and is so full of life; Now nearly 9 months old; Will increase his food slightly and back to the vets two weeks today. Antibiotic has been stopped today to see how he gets on without it! | |
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Hi Fiona,
HUGE congratulations to you and Wallace on the weight gain!!!!!!! YAHOO!!!!!!!! | |
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-- Donna
Owned by Tara, a 8 YO GSD w/EPI and DM dx'd at about a year old. Fed Taste of the Wild Lamb formular kibble and enhance this diet with cooked meat, veggies and fruit, Enzymes: Pancreatin 8x - 1 tsp per cup of food. Suppliments include 1000 mg Wild Salmon oil, Glucosomine/Chondrotin/MSM and Probiotic acidophilus. Stable since 2005 Also owned by sidekicks' Zoey my rescued GSD and Max, a 10 MO PWC rescue - along with Tess (GSD) and Zeke (PWC) with Angel wings
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Fiona,
Great news with the weight gain! Hope to hear the same good news with stopping the antibiotic. | |
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-- Kathy and Ted 9 yr old GSD rescue ~72 lbs now 109 lbs
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HURRAY FIONA!!!!! Congrats on the wonderful weight gain with Wallace. So happy you seem to have turned the corner on this illness. It will only get better from here. BE PROUD OF YOURSELF!!!! You have done a great job, and saved a life. | |
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-- Brenda & Sailin Suzie. Worlds Greatest Boat Dog
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Fiona - Thank you so much for the wonderful report on how Wallace is doing. You must be absolutely thrilled to have your boy back looking great and so full of life! That is quite a good chunk of weight! Fingers and paws crossed for you that he is able to stop the antibiotics without any setbacks... please update us all on how it goes.
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-- ~Becky~
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Yahooo. So great that Wallace has turned a corner and is on the come-back trail. Congratulations. All that worrying and care is paying off wel.. Keep us posted int eh next week as he comes off antibiotics. | |
--Maggie-Lee, from Christchurch New Zealand. Gratefully owned by a set of designer dogs: Charlie-Pete my beautiful boxhound,
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Hussars! for the weight gain and for Wee 'Wullie' Wallace for beating his foe back over his intestinal Stirling Bridge!! Hussars! Craig (a Scottish crag dweller) | |
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Craig Lulu (aka Miss Lulupants) is a 4 year old 'Red Shepherd' (Australian Red Heeler x Long-hair GSD) who lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Diagnosed with EPI in April 2010. Currently on one Creon 25k per meal;
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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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Yea Fiona and Wallace!!! Great...always love to hear when the pups are improving!! Kudos to you guys! :-)))) | |
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-- Michele "No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich" - having 2 makes you even richer! :-)Jackie (back in pic) Diagnosed at 9 mos (09/09) - TLI 0.3 and low end of B12. Pancreatin 8x dosing 3/4tsp per cup. Natures Domain, Trinfac-B Intrinsic Factor daily, probiotics and Duralactin in the am. Stable and happy 115 lbs - thanks to all the beautiful souls on this forum, we could not have done it without YOU. Dexter - Diagnosed 11/10 approx 3 yrs of age. We failed fostering and now he has his forever home
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WAHOO Wallace!!!!!!! And we will be keeping our paws and fingers crossed that the SIBO is completely gone... Fiona... please keep us posted! | |
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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 Fiona Great to hear Wallace has gained weight. Give him a hug from me. Jane | |
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Hi Fiona and Wallace....Howzit going without teh antibiotic/ Everything still good?? | |
--Maggie-Lee, from Christchurch New Zealand. Gratefully owned by a set of designer dogs: Charlie-Pete my beautiful boxhound,
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HI Fiona and Wallace....... me too ... wondering how the antibiotics withdrawal is working out | |
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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 Fiona and wallace, Thats absolutely fantastic news. What a weight gain!! It will be good news for Rob and Tara as they are just starting out on Lypex as Tara wouldn't eat food with powdered enzymes on it. Do let us know how Wallace is doing now off the antibiotics. | |
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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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That is AWSOME news!!!!! 
Congratulations Fiona & Wallace. Fantastic News.
At initial testing - TLI 1.2 (range 5-35) B12 254 (range 249-733) folate 20.2 (range 6.5-11.5) Natures Domain, Pancreatin 8x dosing is 1tsp per cup, Trinfac-B Intrinsic Factor daily, probiotics with each meal and glucosamine chondroitin in the am. Stable and happy 95 lbs 8/15/11
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