SIBO & Inflamatory bowel disease

[nicholas]

Thanlk you for the wishes. His name is Tristan. He is very active and always looking for me to pet him. He is very very curious and keeps on bitting things, but not major damages yet. He stops once you shout to him "Don't"! I am still trying to teach hom where to pee etc, but he is too young to realize. He likes chewing a big bath towel and this is his favorite toy. I will share some pics wiht once if you tell me how i can upload them.

Thanks again

Nicholas

[saschia]

Hi Nicholas,

I am glad that the puppy is getting OK and I am also very glad that you proved to be really interested, trying to fight the disease. So I wish you very much luck.

And I am looking forward to seeing your pictures.

[Mirkawolf]

Originally Posted by nicholas

I will share some pics wiht once if you tell me how i can upload them.

To upload pictures here into the forum posts, the pictures must be already online somewhere. I suggest you go to http://photobucket.com/ and start an account (join now). It´s free. Then you upload the pictures from your computer to Photobucket. Once they are uploaded, under every picture you´ll see the "url" address of the photos.
Then you go back to the forum here and in your reply, click the little icon of picture (it´s the small square with little mountain and sun on it). It will open a window where you paste the url of the image you want to share with us. If you preview your post, it should show you the photo.

Looking forward to see the puppy

[Rona]

Hopefully things will improve soon and Tristan will grow up to be a fine and strong dog, which everbody here wishes would happen.

Being a small pup now he will probably forget his early days with you, but I'm sure he will always remember the feeling that his "pack" protected him when he was in need. Wolfdogs, like wolves, are very loyal and grateful.

We experienced this with Tina... rescued and adopted her when she was a little puppy and for the following 14 years she'd follow us even into fire... Now she's very old and sick , and we're struggling for her again!

[nicholas]

Thank you Rona for your kind words. I wish you the best with your dog.

Here are some pic of Tristan before i took him to the vet. The last one is taken in order for you to see how skinny he was. Now he looks a lot better. I will take some pics and post them as well.

Thank you again for your support.

Nicholas

[nicholas]

I wanted to let you know that Tristan's condition did not change. There was a temporary improvement but then the diarrhea came back. I took him two days ago to the largest animal clinic in Greece. He stayed for 2 days and run every kind of tests there is. The results up to now show nothing. We are awating results for parasites. They run all tests available for parasites. And here is the ugly part. They have him under a treatment with cortizone (injections) for 3 days, 2 pills/day called tagamet and 2 pills/da called medrol. If he responds well in treatmetn the vet said that it will be an indirect confirmation that he is suffering from IBD. If he does not then they must take a piece of his small intestine for biopsy. The vet explained to me that IBD is a general term and the real cause of IBD can be a number of things. If he responds to the treatmetn it means that with a careful diet he will be just fine despite the IBD. If he does not then he most likely has a problem to a specific part of the intestine that cannot be treated. In that case the dig must be put doen cause he will die anyway. I really hope that we will manage to avoid the worst case scenario ant live together for many years.

[Rona]

We're keeping our fingers crossed!

[nicholas]

Thank you Rona, for your kiond words.