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Unfortunately the months treatment for Inflammatory Bowel Disease has made no difference. Rosco is still having bloating and wind problems every day. The principle here was to attempt to address inflammation in bowel suspected of interfering with Rosco’s stomach motility. The regime he has been on was effective against inflammation (IBD) in 85% of cases. We had really high hopes that this treatment would work and were very disheartened when it didn’t. While on the steroids & immune surpress ...

Tests done on the 23rd May 2011 by referral

Rosco was screened for all the metabolic or painful abdominal conditions (eg. pancreatitis) and nothing was found. He did have biopsies and they revealed a normal stomach lining despite the gross appearance of abnormality, but they identified plentiful Helicobacter organisms in the lumen. The significance of these spiral bacteria is shrouded in controversy in dogs, but given Rosco’s serious problems the vet thought we should attempt an ...

These last few weeks we aren't having much success controlling Rosco's bloating and it has become very fustrating and tiredsome.
Quite frankly I'm not sure why bloating occurs now if we were taking what I thought were all the right precautions with Rosco; avoiding grains, feeding 3 small meals a day, feeding him on his own, not allowing him to drink a lot of water right before or after his meal and never allowing him to have any activity before or after eating. We really can't understand ...

Rosco's Bloat Story

On Sunday morning December 12th 2010 Rosco got access to a bag of dried dog food and kept eating even after he was full. We rushed Rosco off to the vets straight away as his stomach was huge and he looked in pain. The vet tried to make Rosco vomit up the food but it wasn't working. The vet then decided to operate on Rosco and removed all the food from his stomach. The vet was astonished at the amount of food that was removed. The vet said the last bit of dog food ...

We have 2 weeks until the rally, so I'm going to try and keep a blog going, with details of whats happening. The committee is working really hard on getting everything just right.

Entries close tonight at 11.59pm, and that is when the fun will start with working out the order of teams running, and the timings of the classes.

Accommodation is of course sorted out, and the screening of the start of the Iditarod from Alaska.

Bangel, our child protection ...