Category: Medical

I was full of hope that Alpteses would work for Indy. He had one sachet yesterday, spread over lunch (11am) and dinner (5pm), as per the instructions. I watched Indy and the sandpit all night and was too happy that there were no stools for the day until…. At 10.52pm when Indy went to the…

Here’s a comparison between Alpteses (taken from PetDiatrics’ website) and NaturVet’s Digestive Enzymes. Alpha Amilase 2320 SKBU Lipase 210 LU Cellulose 75 CMCU Protease 22100 PU Bacillus Coagulant 100 million CFU As you can see, the units are different and I am not at all familiar with them, so I guess I cannot find any…

I was at the vet’s with Heidi today and the vet said to try Alpteses for Indy. Alpteses is a pancreatic digestive enzyme, from Petdiatrics. It’s a powder to be mixed with food or I could also put it into capsules as an alternative method of feeding it. So I tried it during lunch just…

Late last night, Jia-Wen noticed a wound on Heidi’s thigh. It looked like this. Wet. That totally freaked me out and I quickly searched for pictures of Tiger’s and Zurik’s sporo lesions last time. Zurik had a classical sporo lesion, but Tiger’s were not the typical classical type. And Heidi wound looked a bit like…

Today is Day 10 of the Metronidazole (the last day). I’ve come to a point where I don’t know what will work for Indy’s loose stools anymore. What works for others somehow does not work for him: Pumpkin, Slippery Elm Bark, disgestive enzymes, probiotics, etc.  Dr Pitcairn even writes that Slippery Elm Bark is “an…

I woke up this morning, checked the sandpit and found NO stools. I hope this means that the mishap yesterday was just a one-off pasty-stool episode and Indy managed to overcome that on his own. As I was preparing breakfast for everyone, I saw Indy go to the sandpit, so I quickly went out to…

Ten days on raw chicken fillet is long enough. I have to transition Indy back to Cubgrub. Since he could not tolerate Primal from yesterday, Cubgrub is his only choice of balanced food. So, it took a lot of patience today, but with every raw chicken meal, I sat with him and coaxed him to…

Bunny finished his plasma eye gel on Sunday and since then, we’ve noticed that besides healing the eye ulcer (inflicted by Indy in a fight – in the right eye), Bunny’s eyesight seemed to have improved as well! Bunny was declared 80% blind some years back and this has been confirmed by two vets. He…

I came home today and found really nice, healthy looking and firm stools NEAR Indy’s spot again. I scooped it up and took photos, hoping like crazy that it is indeed Indy’s poop. Today is Day 6 of the Metronidazole. Then, I fed everyone. Indy only wants to eat raw chicken fillet now. He doesn’t…

Indy excreted a small patch of really runny and blood-tinged stools, discovered at 2pm today. Sigh… He didn’t have any new food today. The stools at 10.50am were just soft and now at 2pm, it’s all runny (but only a small patch). I’ve already discussed this with Indy’s vet and we will continue with the…

Yesterday, I made a VERY wrong call on Indy’s diet. I erroneously thought that after one week on raw chicken fillet and Cubgrub Chicken, it might do Indy some good if I introduced a new food to him. Since everyone was on a trial protein rotation yesterday, I didn’t want to exclude Indy too. It…

It looked promising today. His morning stools were firmer already, but it is still not back to normal. Of course we know it would definitely take time. He has been having loose stools for more than 2 months now. I would say that it’s slightly better than yesterday’s. However, we had a setback at mid-morning…

Bunny’s right eye isn’t back to 100% normal yet, but there has been much improvement. We would put it at 97%. The cow-collar(!) is only for after applying the eyedrops. Just for a few minutes. Slowly, we will get there. It’s the right eye that had an ulcer when (we suspect) Indy poked it last…