19/08/2025
We have been very quiet on social media, but we are still around and working on orders.
It's been a rough few months with Tazz. She had her first ever dental and first ever ear infection in January. She started on an additional pain med in February and had Giardia again in March. We were battling with her gut for almost 3 months due to the course of panacur given for Giardia. Eventually, it was determined she had too much bad gut bacteria. We tried transitioning her back onto pellets. It kind of worked, but while still slowly transitioning, she had gut issues again, so we stopped.
I am so thankful I came across Nutripet Consulting. Claire has been absolutely amazing and patient. Tazz went for a check-up about 2 weeks ago as I wanted to provide updated bloods to Claire before she started working on a recipe for Tazz.
Tazz has had elevated ALT for 2 years (age related liver disease), and I also wanted to see if the pain medication was affecting her organs. I had also noticed Tazz had become more skittish over the last few weeks and thought her pain meds were no longer working. I mentioned this to our vet. As much as I really didn't want to, our vet said we needed to do an ultrasound as we last did one 2 years ago. I am extremely thankful she said we had to do one. It turns out Tazz has GBM - the initial stages of gall bladder mucocoele - and this is the reason she had become more skittish. GBM is a result of the gallbladder not releasing bile, etc, and it starts building up and forms a sludge. If not caught, it can be life-threatening as the gallbladder can burst. If meds don't work, then surgery is the only option, but it's a very high-risk surgery.
No one tells you this - but GBM is very common in certain breeds and older dogs.
This also shows why an ultrasound is so important as not everything shows up in bloods.
We are slowly transitioning Tazz onto her new recipe, and Claire has been amazing. I have asked a lot of questions with lots of why's. She has answered them all, with detailed explanations. It will take about another 3 - 4 weeks to have Tazz fully transitioned as we are adding 1 ingredient at a time to avoid any gut upsets.
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Natasha
