Christmas Leftovers

The hubbs left a bag of Christmas leftovers on the kitchen table and went to the bathroom. When he came out the bag was on the floor and the leftovers devoured.

Can't be 100% sure Topaz ate all of it, but he for sure ate some. Ham, Christmas cookies, and not really sure what else.

After a few days of on and off diarrhea, the holidays are over and we're back to our normal schedules and eating...hopefully this continues.

Still no seizures!

Not Interested In Food?

Ok...so last night and this morning Topaz has not been interested in his meal. The only thing different in it is beef instead of chicken or pork. Wonder if that's it?

I made two other batches, both with beef...hopefully we don't have issues with those.

All is still well on the no seizure front.

Belgium Lukken Cookies...English Muffins...and Extra PB

Yesterday we came home to an empty can of Belgium Lukken cookies that Todd's grandmother gives us every year. Seems that somehow the dogs...or cats...opened the can on the table, removed the two bags of cookies and left the can and lid on the table.

So, the dogs had a feast of 1 1/2 bread bags of Lukken cookies.

For future use: Lukken ingrediants: eggs, sugar, brown sugar, whiskey, flour, butter, vanilla.

We gave Topaz extra PB this morning and last night.

Then today, we come home to find the double package of Thomas English Muffins empied. These were on top of the microwave. Not sure if the cats helped with this one or not, I cannot imagine how Topaz or Onyx would have gotten them down and not knocked something else off the baker's rack that the microwave sits on.

Just in case: Ingrediants: Unbleached Enriched Wheat Flour [Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Reduced Iron, Niacin, Thiamin Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic Acid], Water, Farina, Yeast, Nonfat Milk, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Salt, Soybean Oil, Preservatives (Calcium Propionate, Sorbic Acid), Soy Flour, Grain Vinegar, Monoglycerides, Whey, Natamycin (a Natural Mold Inhibitor).

We will be again adding extra PB tonight and tomorrow morning.

Not sure if this is a bordom thing or a hunger thing. We always try to feed the dogs before we leave so that they're not hungry.

Hopefully this is the end of this...it's getting crazy.

Good thing is...so far so good on the seizure front, however, the Lukken did give him some wicked diarrhea. Well...serves him right! LOL

Extra PB tonight

Topaz acting a little "off" to me, so I gave him an extra 1/2 pill of PB. I thought it can't hurt, right?

He ate some diarrhea cat poop earlier too.

Other than that, all is well!

200 DAYS!!!!!

Topaz has made it 200 days without a seizure as of today! He's been doing SO WELL since the whole pancreatitis scare. I don't know what it is that turned him around, but we'll gladly take it!!

I know that the seizure monster could come at any time, so we're not letting our guard down.

But we should celebrate the milestones!

Yeah Topaz!! I hope it continues, puppa!!

More Goops & An Update!

I have been wanting to make more "goops" for Topaz for a few days now. We've been improvising on his meals.

So I started as soon as I got home from work and I made 4 different goops. These ones have meat, veggie, fruit and supplement in them. well, all but one has meat and supplements. One is just veggies and fruit. I can always add meat to that one later.

The first one I made has canned pumpkin, carrot, celery, spinach, garlic, apple, and pork, plus the supplements. I gave them this one for dinner...it's a little thick, I added 1/4 cup water to the other ones...but they both LOVED it...I think the garlic makes the difference!!

The 2nd one I made has spinach, celery, broccoli, cabbage, canned pumpkin, garlic, 2 apples, pork and supplements.

The 3rd one is mostly cabbage and broccoli, but also has canned pumpkin, garlic, an apple and a pear in it. This one is strictly veggie/fruit...no meat. I had a lot of cabbage to get rid of so I just made this. I may add meat to it when we give it to them.

The 4th is cabbage, broccoli, a lot of canned pumpkin, 2 apples, garlic, pork and the supplements.

There has been a lot of discussion lately about food for epi dogs and a question asking what people feed and what they do differently than others do to keep the seizures at bay.

I know we're *very* lucky with Topaz right now. He's gone over 190 days seizure free, and that's amazing!! I hate to say that I feel blessed (just because I don't like that saying...another blog...maybe on my regular blog) but I truly feel blessed right now by his progress and how long we've been able to keep the seizures at bay.

What to do we differently? Nothing that I know of. I just know we, like so many other people who are owned by epileptic dogs, have done and are doing everything we possibly can for Topaz.

Oh and he's been doing so well. I think that the pancreatitis was like a blessing (ack that word again) in disguise! He's turned completely around as far as how he's acting. He's our old, crazy, hyper, boofie Topaz! My husband drove me to work today and when he picked me up he brought the dogs and Topaz was in heaven! He was wagging his tail the whole time!! The last car ride he went on he barely moved!! And he was just SO happy today...chasing cars in the truck like he normally/used to do. It was amazing and I was so happy that he was happy!

I hope he continues to feel better and that we finally have control over the seizures. I know at any time he could have one, but he's just been doing SO WELL lately1!

Veggie & Fruity Goop & Topaz update

Today I made two batches of Veggie Goop and one batch of fruity goop.

In the first batch of veggie goop I put 2 or 3 celery stalks, 1 broccoli, spinach, 1 carrot, canned pumpkin and strawberries...plus supplements: Digestive Enzymes, vitamin E, Flax Seed Oil and their supplement.

 

In the second batch I put spinach, cabbage, broccoli, red pepper, strawberries and canned pumpkin and the same supplements as above. We are freezing the 2nd batch. 

Then I rinsed everything off and made the fruity goop. I put in 1 whole pear, 2 whole apples, a banana, strawberries and nonfat yogurt. It smells DELICIOUS!!! I wanted to taste it! LOL

 

I gave the dogs the fruity goop and some hamburger this evening. they loved it. I may try out the veggie goop tonight at pill time. 

Topaz is doing really well too. We're lowering his KBr, and he's really acting much better. Like the old Topaz. It's awesome to see.

We haven't added the milk thistle and I need to find some cod liver oil and vitamin C and a couple other things, then I'll be making patties and freezing them. it's from that diet I posted. It's the longterm part of it.