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[Vally]

Hi Tara

Terrifying.  I’ve seen this a few times on a television show we have here – Bondi Vet – good show, gorgeous vet (but he promotes annual vaccinations still – grrrrr).  It looks terrible but it’s not serious.  Hopefully that is what it is.  If Diablo is eating and toileting, sounds good.

Love Vally & Bingo

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And yesterday he got into an argument with a 7 foot giant black hairy labradoodle. Bingo took himself over to say g’day and this dog was a real snob.  It snapped at Bingo.  Well Bingo ain’t intimidated by size (he think’s he’s much taller than he is). Bingo barked right back and the monster went for him. Bingo still not giving up falls over and the dog closed in on him. The other owner is calling the dog back – gee that’s helping lady – and I get in there and grab Bingo – he’s still barking at the monster the whole time.

Few extra grey hairs for me.

 

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Patrice, don’t apologise. Fingers crossed it is a sprain.

As you said the forum is up and running, and running well. That’s the most important, so you don’t need to promise to do anything.  As you say, icing on the cake (that is my favourite bit of every cake though).

And here, summer just doesn’t want to move on.  Mornings are a little cooler thank goodness, but it heats up during the day and it’s still incredibly humid.  Rained for about a week straight a month ago which was welcome as it just hasn’t rained in forever, but the rain seems to have dried up again too.  My poor plants – I’m a hopeless gardener. I love bonsai, but have killed a forest worth.  I feel sorry for any plant that catches my eye.

Love Vally & Bingo

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Hi all.

Oh, Bingo is as hungry as ever and has not been off his food at all.  Considering the pred has been lowered considerably since the beginning, I’ve come to the conclusion he is a glutton.

Brigitte, I sympathise with you, we’re still in daylight saving time here.  We start a month before everyone and change back a month after so we get almost 2 months of extra daylight. We change at the end of this month and turn our clocks back and I’m soooo looking forward to that extra hour on that first Sunday morning. It’s also still amazingly hot , much too hot for Autumn –  I know that affects Bingo too.  Thanks for the potato info. I bought new potatoes which are little white ones and the kumara is definitely the sweet potato.

I’m not going to panic (much) but I do want to wait before the next test.  Linda I was giving Bingo a whole 3 drops of milk thistle at night, so the dose he’s getting now is much much more.  I’m hoping that will affect the next set of results.

I made him Dr Dodd’s liver cleansing fish and potato. Well he loved that.  I’ve made up a batch and put in the freezer and I’ll give it to him a few days a week.

With the lowering of the pred again too, I can’t stop watching him.  No sign of anything  though and it’s been a whole 3 and a half days.

He was most indignant at the vets last time.  They did a neurological test on him as he had had the, they called it, episode (I called it seizure).  The test involved turning his feet over and he would flip them back.  Hammer to each knee joint to check the reflex.  AND THEN….he got poked in both eyes with a cotton bud, the cotton bud then gets poked up each nostrils and then vet puts his finger down Bingo’s throat – WELL!!!

Thank you my dear friends.

Vally & the glutton.

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Reading more, I do think it’s possibly steroid related.

With milk thistle, I don’t think I can use capsules as the dose may go to high.  I’m currently using a liquid milk thistle (but it’s actually in alcohol – maybe that’s not a good idea – although he only gets 4 drops a day).  I may change to a tablet.

Can anyone help with the dosage – I hate working these out as I’m scared I’ll overdose or underdose.  Tablets are milk thistle extract 100mg – adult take 1 tablet 3 times daily. So by Dr Dodds, Bingo should take 20% of an adult does, so I work out ROUGHLY half a tablet twice a day???

Sheena, Bingo wouldn’t admit it but he is very wimpy in the hind leg department.  I normally give him the yellow of an egg every third day. Now I know the white of the egg has more protein, so I’ll cook the whole egg and give it to him more often.

Vally

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No Bingo doesn’t think he needs to brush his teeth either. His favourite treat is dried chicken necks. I’m kind of relying on them to do a bit of work on his teeth.

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And Joe, you’re a sweet and gentle soul.

Lots of love

Vally & Bingo

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Sheena, this is the rest of them. I can’t see an AST or a CK reference:

ALB – 37 (22-39)

ALKP – 121 (23-212)

ALT – 229 (10-100) – HIGH

AMYL – 498 (500-1500) – LOW

UREA – 6 (2.5-9.6)

Ca – 2.45 (1.98-3)

CHOL – 7.67 (2.84-8.26)

CREA – 32 (44-159) – LOW

GCT – 4 (0-7)

GLOB – 38 (25-45)

GLU – 5.79 (3.89-7.95)

LIPA – 657 (200-1800)

PHOS – 1.96 (0.81-2.2)

TBIL – 18 (0-15) (HIGH) – I misread this as the TP being high so I didn’t mention before.

TP – 75 (52-82)

ALB/GLOB – 1

BUN/CREA 43

Note he wasn’t fasted.

I haven’t included the ProCyte Data which all fell into the normal range, or the Chemistry Data (IVT) which was practically normal too.

When I asked his vet about the result and whether it was the likely the effect of the prednisone, he said no.  That the test which would show the prednisone effect came out normal – I’m not sure which test result that would have been.  That’s why I’m a bit more concerned.

Love Vally & Bingo