Day 7

Now we're acting like an idiot. Last night I got out of bed for a funny noise, which turned out to be the dog trying to nest IN the dirty clothes' basket. 37 lb dog IN the clothes' basket. Would have been funny if it hadn't been oh-dark-thirty....literally.

This morning he was sleeping ON the treadmill. We have no idea what's gotten into the dog and his sudden boycott of his nice warm bed.

The vet gave us Chlorhexadine shampoo, Advantage flea stuff, and 10-days of Cephalexin. Vet says the itchy rash could be a staph infection....that they get Staph intermedius. That he should take the 10-day course and then, if he's better from it, another 10-days.

Put Advantage on yesterday, means no bath until Sunday. Then Chlor-Hex bath with soak.

The Cephalexin is in caplets, which is kind of a pain. I HAVE to put it in his food. Most pills you can just hand this dog and he gladly swallows them. The big caplets break and end up all over the floor, which is less than useful.

Oh, also giving him benadryl to relieve some of the itchies.

He's delightedly eating everything he can get. Green tripe, chicken wings, necks, hearts, livers, thighs. I have some turkey that I think I'll give him today.

So far so good...

But he's been acting decidedly weird.
Sleeping on the couch while we're not looking, refusing his basket, avoiding the grass.
Just damned odd.

Eats anything you put in front of him. A chicken wing and thigh today as well as a heart and 2 scoops of tripe. D/C'd the pumpkin.

Day 3

Went fairly well.
He ate his pumpkin/tripe/supplements for breakfast & his chicken thigh for lunch....mostly not on the floor this time.

He had 2 frankly bloody stools. Still low on the concern-o-meter for this dog.

By his PM walk the diarrhea had resolved.

He's still itchy. But I think I'm getting bug bites too....so I think a bug bomb is in the future.

Day 2

Had to add pumpkin puree to the diet.

All the sites swear by it as a GI binder. However, so far, the diarrhea is not too bad...not for this dog at least.


He also has a beef rib to chew on.

I need to go buy a spray bottle for vinegar or astringent for his beard.

Starting 6-24

This is what my dog is looking like right now. I'm disgusted. This dog had tremendous skin and coat you couldn't beat.
He's on 20+mg of Prednisone daily as well as Azathioprine. He shouldn't be able to have allergies.

So today we begin our raw food trial.
1 chicken thigh per day, some raw eggs, some green tripe, flax seed oil, kelp, and colostrum.

Here are our start pics.
One year ago.













The following are from today
































Elephant elbows. No hair. Itchy rash all over. Skin flaking off.