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Rest in peace, Supoda.

I'm so sorry you had to say goodbye to Jakie.

I'm so sorry for your loss of Arrow.

Happy birthday Honey

Beautiful boy

I'm so sorry you lost them and so close together too. Rest in peace Moose and Duke.

Skeeterbug sounds wonderful; I'm so sorry you had to say goodbye to him.

You must have been so happy to find those ....

I'm so sorry for your loss.

My first greyhound, Charlie (in my avatar picture), had DM. He did pretty well with it for 3 years but there came a day when he couldn't stand and that was when I said goodbye - he was 12 years and 7 months. Magic sounds like he's doing OK. Hugs to you both.

What a traumatic experience for you all but I'm so glad that Merlin is recovering so well.

I'm very sorry to read this. Rest in peace, Tractor, loved and remembered always.

I'm so sorry for your loss of your sweet Tess.

I'm so sorry for your loss of your sweet Sarge.

What a touching and beautiful tribute to the wonderful years you and Dory spent together.

I feel like I know Pete after reading your tribute. I'm sorry you lost your little friend.

Azathioprine and Metronidazole both made my boy feel very bad. With the Azathioprine I gave him one dose at bedtime and he was restless and clearly nauseous all night and didn't eat again until the following evening, so I didn't give him any more and we managed his autoimmune issues just on prednisolone. With the Metronidazole I suspected this was affecting my boy's appetite (I have taken this myself and know how sick it made me feel) and his appetite did improve once this was stopped. Our situations are not identical, but I was in a similar situation to you a couple of years ago with the dog mentioned above who had returned from two weeks in hospital looking like a walking skeleton, with little appetite and bloody, liquid diarrhoea. His appetite was so poor that he would only eat a tiny bit of any one thing at a time, so what I found worked best for him was to offer him ten course meals. I kept a list of any food he showed any interest in (about 20 items) and at each meal (5 times a day) I would start at the top of the list and keep offering him different things until he'd eaten enough. I'd start with the healthiest things and let him eat as much as he wanted of those first, so a typical meal might have been: a mouthful of kibble, a spoonful of wet dog food, some chicken breast, a few mini cocktail sausages, a squirt of cream cheese, a tripe stick, a strawberry probiotic yoghurt drink etc etc. I avoided anything too fatty, as prednisolone does increase the risk of pancreatitis, but apart from that I gave him anything he'd eat. I was also giving him a probiotic paste (Pro-Kolin) and a concentrated vitamin/mineral paste (Nutrigel). It was a long slog, but over the course of a few weeks his appetite gradually returned to normal. We never really knew what caused this state of affairs, but I suspect it was the huge number of drugs they gave him whilst he was in hospital.

So sorry for your loss of Cooper.