Zoey has been doing exceptionally well. She has been responding to commands, playing fetch, and learned to let us know every time she has to go outside. She hasn't had an accident for almost a month and a half. She also loves the water! Anytime she gets a chance she will run and jump in the pool. She isn't too big on swimming around, she loves to just sit on the first step and lay in the water. She will also stick her face in the water while she splashes around which I thought was pretty unusual for a dog. It's been nice having another dog around to help her release some energy as well as help her learn what's ok and what isn't ok when dogs play together. The only problem we had was about a week ago, Zoey got a little bit sick and threw up her food for a couple of days. We fed her rice, hot dog, and some other bland foods to help her stomach get back to normal. After a few days she was definitely feeling much better so we started feeding her the nutrisource dog food again, but she threw it up. So we did a little more bland food and mixed in some iams puppy food over the next few days until it was completely just iams puppy food. She hasnt had a problem since. I also tried giving her a single piece of the nutrisource as a treat, but she just spit it out. I can only assume that she is allergic to something in the nutrisource or she connects throwing up to the taste of nutrisource. I think I am going to compare the 2 ingredient labels of nutrisource and iams and see if there is something she might be allergic to.
Also, Zoey's hernia has grown in size just a tiny bit, but i am assuming it is just because she is growing as well. It had a diameter of about a nickel at 8 weeks and now its about the size of a quarter so not really too much difference. The vet had said she will probably have to close it up when she gets spade, but we would talk more about that in our next vet visit. I did call the vet when zoey was sick and throwing up, just to make sure the symptoms weren't linked to the hernia which they weren't.
Hi and thanks for the note about Zoey...it sounds like she's coming along great. Who knows what the deal is with the food - sometimes they change the formula slightly or it might have gotten a little mold during the humidity or she might be starting to teethe and not feel well. At any rate, if the Iams works for you, I guess I'd go ahead and feed it to her although it wouldn't be my first choice for a food -- a million people do seem to feed it. Please - Keep me informed about her hernia; as you know, my vet thought it would go away ~ I guess if it continues to get larger you might want to consider spaying her earlier but I'd leave that to your vet's experience.
