Colitis

[Dotty&Duke]

My own theory is that Roscoe's is not an inherited condition ( because I have his full brother who has no problems and keep in touch with his Mum, two brothers and a sister who all are fine) but was sparked by an incident when he was younger which has caused his bowel to be more sensitive and easily inflamed. Roscoe was fine until he was about one when he found and partially ate a soft plastic plant pot. It passed through in bits :x but he did have slightly bloody/ jelly diarrhoea for a couple of days and we took him to the vets to be on the safe side. His symptoms came back a couple of times and then the worst last New Year when we had to go to the emergency vets as he was running a very high temp, was in a lot of pain and couldn't keep anything down, including water. It was the emergency vet who gave a really thorough examination and suggested the advice about protein changes causing problems - since we adhered to her advice we have had no problems. He was in a worryingly bad way and lost a lot of weight very quickly - it was only because she could see how dedicated we were that the vet let us bring him home as she was on the verge of putting him on a drip and keeping him in. She only released him on condition we saw our own vet first thing the following day We had to give him water through a syringe every hour, he had anti biotics, kaolin paste, painkillers and something else to settle his colon. So glad he was insured...it cost £150 consultation before any medications as it was New Year's Day and we had to go to the ER vets in the next town as our own were closed.
So in conclusion, if more whippets have this condition (which is debatable), it might be because they are more prone to eat ridiculous things!

that is really interesting,. I have to say first though, like you, I don't for one minute think that what ever is wrong with Cassie in an inherent disorder, simply because, I know Hanna her breeder was so fastideous about checking out the genetic histories of both Ruby, Cassies mum and Moz (lou's dog) Cassies dad I know both owners and they are both very responcible people who love their dogs.

What interests me most is what you say about the protein levels. Since I have taken Cassie off the high protein puppy food (which I intended to do at the end of the month anyway) and put her on just plain old Chappie, we have had no wind no smelly breath and her poo is more normal than it has ever been so maybe it was the diet that was the problem all along. At the mo I am very slowly weaning her onto CSJ wheat and gluten free. Fingers crossed i hope it is that simple.

 

[eve]

Glad to hear that Cassie is improving :thumbsup: