Saturn is having a break from agility for a couple of months!
For those who follows my post about this boy, he is clear from campylobacter but his bowel is not 100%, so the vet suggested I feed him Hill's prescription ID, both dry and wet mixed. He has been on ID for about four weeks now and he is doing good, no more diarrhoea or passing blood (touch wood!). I have been complaining that he is not on form in agility since Sheltie Show and he lost his stamina for the last two weekends at show. We went to Bernadette yesterday and she kindly check on him and told me Saturn is too thin, that brought my attention. I know he is always a skinny boy but because he is well cover in his lovely coat, nobody could really tell he is thin or fat. I've always made a record whenever I weight him and gosh, he lost nearly a kilo since he is on ID. Eventhough the ID is a highly digestible but it is blend with low energy, this expalin why the poor chap has no stamina!! As I am going away in a week's time, it is not good to change his food while he is staying with my friends but I will definitely put him back on Burns after I return from Malaysia.
I took him to the vet in the evening to ask Kevin to give him a good checkup, Kevin said he is healthy, which is a good sign. After the discussion with him and Bernadette's advice on feeding him extra, I am giving him 3 meals a day + 2 months NO agility, hopefully he will have time to recover and hopefully when I come back from Malaysia, he will fill up more and have a bit of muscle.
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Little dogs lose weight so quickly don't they and unless you weigh them you don't really notice.
Let's hope after a rest he puts on the weight and is back to his old self.
What a lovly action shot of Saturn. Hope is has a good rest & comes back to agility fired with enthusiasm
Poor Saturn :-( Hope he enjoys his rest. I'm sure he will be fighting fit again in no time!
have a safe journey back home...and dont worry Saturn will be rareing to go when u come home
Handsome Saturn has lost a KG? OMG!!! I am sure he will be "muscular" when you come back from Malaysia, since he will be having 3 meals a day + No agility!!! Lol =P Now i understand why I gained weight because I have 3 meals per day and I didnt do any agility!!!
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