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I would like to take a moment to wish everyone a wonderful New Year ... to you, your family and furry beloved companions. May you all be safe and warm, healthy and happy and if i only could, i would wish away SIBO, EPI, low B12, ticks and fleas... but since i can't make THAT happen......may ALL the pups (and cats too) enjoy one of their best years ever ... I wish you Health... So you may enjoy each day in comfort. I wish you the Love of friends and family... And Peace within your heart. I wish you the Beauty of nature... That you may enjoy the work of God. I wish you Wisdom to choose priorities... For those things that really matter in life. I wish you Generosity so you may share... All good things that come to you. I wish you Happiness and Joy... And Blessings for the New Year. I wish you the best of everything... That you so well deserve. ~author unknown~
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
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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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Member Posts: 474 |
What a perfect poem to start the New Year! Big paw hugs to all~ | |
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-- Cheryl~~~Loved by Gabi (and Gus): dx'd 3/09 at 2 yrs old, cTLI 1.5. Currently 71.4 lbs. Was 52.5 lbs 09/10. Twice a day: 2cups California Naturals Grain Free Lamb w/ 1 tsp salmon oil, 100 mg Vit E, & 2 Tbls pumpkin; 1-1/2 tsp Pancreatin 8x mixed w/ 2 tsp Party Animal Salmon canned dog food & 1/8 tsp L-Glutamine given as a gruel right before feeding. Probiotic & B12 MIF once a day. Long term for IBD: Methlyprednisolone 4mg once a day . Wausau, WI
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Member Posts: 277 |
Perfectly said! Happy New Year to you all! | |
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-- Enzyme Diane, Diane Sloan, Concord Twp, OH, Pancreatin **17.64 oz Pancreatin 6x Digestive Enzymes $70-Compared to Viokase V ** Enzyme Supplement Orders: www.EnzymeDiane.com, Sarge DOB 11/31/00 GSD/EPI Dx'd 8/05 @ 71# TLI .3, Cobalamin 99, Folate 15.5. 2tsp Pancreatin 6x Supplement, 2 c 4 Health 2x per day, b12 injections,
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Member Posts: 392 |
All the Best to you and your family Olesia. Hope you have a great 2012! Thank you for all that you do for this forum and all our families. All the best Wanda
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-- Anja diagnosed at 8 mos. Jan 26,2010. Lowest weight was 54.5 lbs. Anja now weighs 75 lbs.
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Administrator Posts: 1945 |
Daerest Olesia, Lulu asked me to pass on her good wiishes with the following message, Happy New Year!!! 'in the doggy park pool of life may 2012 be overflowing with the ice of good fortune'  Loses something in the translation but you get the drift  All the best from one soggy little doggie from a very warm South Australia to all her EPI family! Craig, Jemima & Lulu | |
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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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Member Posts: 1594 |
Happy New Year to all! | |
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Member Posts: 2160 |
Olesia, that was a beautiful poem, thankyou xx.
I would also like to wish everyone here at epi4dogs a very Happy & Safe New Year. Hope 2012 will be a wonderful year for you & your precious dogs. Craig, I can't even begin to compete with Lulu's beautiful pool party pic. celebrating with her friends but here is Tess having a little New Year fun with just a little bit of help from her Mum (lol).
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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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Member Posts: 751 |
Craig what a great picture! Olesia love the clip art! HNY!!!!! | |
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-- Kain, 4 yr. old GSD, Mom, Nicole, Dad, Joe, Sister Angel, 7 year old GSD, Sister Noni, 7 year old cat, and Twin Sisters, Eva and Mia, age 4. B-12: 369, TLI: less than 1, Folate: 15.7.Started Enzymes 1/14/11, 1 tsp./c, 2 1/2 cups fed once daily and 1 cup fed once daily. Nature's Variety, TOTW, Back to Basics, California Natural, all in monthly rotation, Let enzymes set 30 min. Low weight, 48 lbs, down from high of ONLY 66. Bi-Weekly B-12 shot of 1.4ml. All time high weight EVER on 12/11/11 at 71 lbs., one of the happiest days of my life, honestly, it is up there with some memorable days! *NEW WEIGHT of 76 lbs.!*
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Member Posts: 2190 |
hello all
happy new year to everyone
Sadly without EPI none of us would have met and life would not be as we know it
have a good one
Jean Derek Kara and Titch | |
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-- Kara:: adopted at five months old 26th December 2009 always hungry more than any of my other dogs became noticeably distressed August 2010 Two vet visits and............. Diagnosed with EPI at 14 months old September 2010 tli<1.00 folate 8.3 cobalimin 611 taking 2 Oxytet antibiotics 3 times a day and eating Nutrix grain free duck and potato kibble and starting to put weight on currently 33 kilos as of 20th June 2011 we also use Tylan if we dont have the time to use the oxytet as it has to be on an empty tum, enzymes at the moment Pancrex granules 3 teaspoons per meal she is 2 yrs old as of 21st July 2011 "UNCONDITIONAL LOVE WAS INVENTED BY DOGS"
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Administrator Posts: 1945 |
Lynn, what a lovely postcard! I'd suspect some digital shenannigans but I feel I know you better Craig | |
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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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Member Posts: 830 |
Happy New Year to everyone here at EPI 4 Dogs and their dogs, of course! I wish everyone a healthy, happy 2012! I know you all made 2011 a happy one for me by helping me on my EPI journey with Pixie. Thank you all so much! | |
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-- Mom to Pixie, 6 year old sheltie,inherited from my mother-in-law 3/11. Dx of EPI 9/09. TLI in 10/09 was 0.4 ug/L. As of 12/2/11, Folate fasting levels was 13.6 ug/L, and Cobalamin fasting was 615. Current weight 18.6 lbs (4/12), ideal weight around 17 - we're trying to keep her from gaining more! Feeding grain free - Natural Balance canned lamb and Nature's Variety Instinct Limited Ingredient Lamb kibble. Giving slightly less than 1/2 tsp Pancreatin 8X per 1/2 cup of food. Tylan currently 1x/day. Also takes 1/2 tablet pepcid for stomach upset 2x/day. Fortiflora probiotics 8/15/11, one packet daily. Getting bi-weekly B-12 shots. Our little pack also includes my husband, our 11 year old sheltie, Lucy, and our 8 year old sheltie, Einstein.
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Member Posts: 717 |
Hi everyone - I haven't been around for quite some time and probably don't know most of you - but I wanted to wish everyone, your families and your furbabies a very happy, healthy and wonderful new year | |
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-- Karen & Manfred
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Site Owner Posts: 7645 |
OMG.... a voice from the past!!!!!!!!!!!! Hi KAren... Hope you and Manfred are doing well.... i was just thinking of him the other day... remember the picture of him bringing in your groceries... one can at a time?!!! I dropped all my groceries on the ground the other day and Manfred came to mind :D.... Oh WOW Lynn... Tess celebrating 2012 in her New Year finery .. Love it! Craig... okay... a bags of ice to cool the doggie pool.... oh my... it IS hot there, eh?! Hey, hopefully that doggone good fortune comes true for ALL of us here on the FORUM (tell Ms Lulupants... THANKS!) Nicole,,,,, sadly, i always have to resor to clip art..... as this family is not overrun with much artistic talent.............. Thank you Wanda ...this FORUM has developed into so much more than just an EPI help group.... rather more like a world-wide extended family. WIshing everyone a WONDERFUL New Year! | |
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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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Member Posts: 649 |
Happy New Year to our new family of EPI friends, two-legged and 4 legged!!!! In 2012 , may we be blessed with good health and much happiness Can you belive it's 2012 !?!?!? Hugs and Paws... Dar and Kodi | |
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-- Dar and Kodi Kodi (GSD female , born August 19, 2010 , was diagnosed July 15, 2011 at 11 months .Lowest weight, 47 lbs, weight as of 2/ 20/ 2012 59.6 lbs. Our goal for her at this time is 60lbs. ... We made it !!! 60.4 lbs on March 31, 2012 . TLI .07 , Folate 9.4 , Cobalmin 536 .Kodi eats TOTW Sierra Mountain (Lamb and sweet potato, grain free), 2 cups,2 times a day with 1 teaspoon of pancreatin 8x per cup., recently added small lunch(1 cup plus 1 teas. enzymes) enzymes ( From Diane...awesome lady!!!) , with warm water and letting it sit for 30 minutes . She is our furry kid whom just loves playing with the grandkids !!!!
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Member Posts: 369 |
Happy, Happy New Year everyone!! Love the pictures! We welcomed the New Year with snow... brrr... Devika | |
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-- Mahi, the Indian EPI dog, diagnosed at 10 months, now 3 years old. Was 60 lbs, went down to 46 lbs, but now with YOUR help inching towards 59 lbs. Fed 3 times a day - homecooked diet of 1 kg potatoes, 70 gms lentils, 150 gms tapioca, squash, beetroot, carrots mashed together, 2 boiled eggs and 500 ml yoghurt. Since 1st Dec '11 have begun to gradually add TOTW Pacific Stream, pre-softened in hot water with the home-cooked food. 1 Salmon Omega 3 tablet given per day. 1 tablet of Creon 10K given 20 mins before every meal. Very, very active - knock on wood, and seems to have gone from a level 10 of "hungry" to maybe an 8. On 27th July 2011, officially downgraded "hungry" level to 7.
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Administrator Posts: 1945 |
Hot? Just hit 41 (106F) and still heading northward. Move over Lulu, Daddy needs a dip | |
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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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Member Posts: 830 |
Craig - I'm sitting on my couch with a hat and scarf on because I don't want to turn the heat up! And it's actually pretty mild here - low 40's F.
Happy New Year!! | |
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-- Mom to Pixie, 6 year old sheltie,inherited from my mother-in-law 3/11. Dx of EPI 9/09. TLI in 10/09 was 0.4 ug/L. As of 12/2/11, Folate fasting levels was 13.6 ug/L, and Cobalamin fasting was 615. Current weight 18.6 lbs (4/12), ideal weight around 17 - we're trying to keep her from gaining more! Feeding grain free - Natural Balance canned lamb and Nature's Variety Instinct Limited Ingredient Lamb kibble. Giving slightly less than 1/2 tsp Pancreatin 8X per 1/2 cup of food. Tylan currently 1x/day. Also takes 1/2 tablet pepcid for stomach upset 2x/day. Fortiflora probiotics 8/15/11, one packet daily. Getting bi-weekly B-12 shots. Our little pack also includes my husband, our 11 year old sheltie, Lucy, and our 8 year old sheltie, Einstein.
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Administrator Posts: 1945 |
If anyone would like to post pictures of new year snow don't let me stop you, we're trying to not switch the air conditioning on but we...think...we're...breaking... Craig | |
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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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Member Posts: 260 | Thank you & happy new year Olesia - from meazi & her entire family - me Wanda & Hubby Larry and Our 13 yr old dog baloo - 13 yr old Siamese kit ( aka lilipad) 7 yr old black cAt Teller and 5 yr old black cat T.T ( total terror ) .{all rescues except maezi } We are all thankful for finding your site on EPI & 'meeting' all the folks on Here. Happy hopeful new year & thank you to all of you Wanda & maezi & family | |
--Maezi is a female Australian cattle dog (blue Heeler) from BC Canada born may 11-2010The story of her journey and struggles with EPI are featured on the EPI stories section above
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Member Posts: 1560 |
Happy New Year to every one of you....and I make the wish that all your hopes come to pass and all your dreams are answered.... and we go on having the most beautiful collection of puppers in the world. Val | |
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Have a wonderful New Year with your gorgeous grrrrl Tess!!
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