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Yay! Two weeks after we first took her to the vet to get her jabs, Rosie finally got them this morning! Advance warning - I'm going to talk about poo A LOT - don't read this if you're having your dinner! 
Her colitis seems to have been getting much better, although tbh it was only ever noticeable in her poo - blood and mucus and very runny poo on and off since we got her, but it got better with a round of antibiotics and probiotics and Royal Canin sensitive. Then it went right back to being horrible again when we tried a tiny bit of James Wellbeloved Lamb in her food. She went back on antibiotics for nearly a week and seemed a bit better, but they wouldn't give her her jab while she was on the meds and wanted to see what she was like off medication for a few days.
So, her course of antibiotics finished on Friday night, on Saturday morning, she had a horrible poo, but no mucus or blood and since then, it has got more and more solid and now the vet was happy to give her the jab. I've never been so proud of a poo as I was yesterday when she did a proper solid one - I actually wanted to pick it up and bring it inside to show my husband!! YUK!
So now she's had her first jab, we have to try and introduce a more 'normal' food to see how she goes. I asked about a raw diet and the vet was fairly negative, saying that with her sensitive tummy, we need to be even more careful about the bacteria in raw food and that probably what will be best, at least to begin with, is something that will provide a degree of certainty - i.e. something where we know she will be getting exactly the same ingredients each time. She recommended the James Wellbeloved Turkey and gave me a free sample to try, so she's had a few pellets of that in her mid morning meal. Fingers crossed!
Oh, and she got an invite to a puppy party tomorrow night, as a result of having her jab! We're being properly welcomed into puppy society now! :whoo:
Louise
Her colitis seems to have been getting much better, although tbh it was only ever noticeable in her poo - blood and mucus and very runny poo on and off since we got her, but it got better with a round of antibiotics and probiotics and Royal Canin sensitive. Then it went right back to being horrible again when we tried a tiny bit of James Wellbeloved Lamb in her food. She went back on antibiotics for nearly a week and seemed a bit better, but they wouldn't give her her jab while she was on the meds and wanted to see what she was like off medication for a few days.
So, her course of antibiotics finished on Friday night, on Saturday morning, she had a horrible poo, but no mucus or blood and since then, it has got more and more solid and now the vet was happy to give her the jab. I've never been so proud of a poo as I was yesterday when she did a proper solid one - I actually wanted to pick it up and bring it inside to show my husband!! YUK!
So now she's had her first jab, we have to try and introduce a more 'normal' food to see how she goes. I asked about a raw diet and the vet was fairly negative, saying that with her sensitive tummy, we need to be even more careful about the bacteria in raw food and that probably what will be best, at least to begin with, is something that will provide a degree of certainty - i.e. something where we know she will be getting exactly the same ingredients each time. She recommended the James Wellbeloved Turkey and gave me a free sample to try, so she's had a few pellets of that in her mid morning meal. Fingers crossed!
Oh, and she got an invite to a puppy party tomorrow night, as a result of having her jab! We're being properly welcomed into puppy society now! :whoo:
Louise