Odin has been sent home with 5 days with of ranitidine twice a day, with the option to continue with this as needed. The reasoning behind it is that his gut has been not quite right for a while and we aren't exactly sure why - hopefully it was just the minor teeth issue, or the blocked lacrimal ducts, and it will settle down now that these are gone.
But what should I expect to see if he is on it successfully? Should he have perfect poo, and if he doesn't it means it isn't working? How long do I give it to assess this, how quickly should it take to be effective?
Yesterday he was still recovering I think, with a very varied stool size, but some very promising ones that had lost the little "tail" and were a decent size for him, and shape. I'm hoping we just get more of these in the very near future. But if we don't, I want to research what the next steps could be, and the first part of that is understanding what to actually expect from the ranitidine short term and potentially longterm.
He is also still on metacam but I want to try him off that as soon as he is healed enough, as I don't think we will get an accurate view of him until we know painkillers aren't needed.
But what should I expect to see if he is on it successfully? Should he have perfect poo, and if he doesn't it means it isn't working? How long do I give it to assess this, how quickly should it take to be effective?
Yesterday he was still recovering I think, with a very varied stool size, but some very promising ones that had lost the little "tail" and were a decent size for him, and shape. I'm hoping we just get more of these in the very near future. But if we don't, I want to research what the next steps could be, and the first part of that is understanding what to actually expect from the ranitidine short term and potentially longterm.
He is also still on metacam but I want to try him off that as soon as he is healed enough, as I don't think we will get an accurate view of him until we know painkillers aren't needed.
Still humping but I'm not sure it's even as much, though that may be wishful thinking and he has always been up and down anyway. He is eating like a trooper, output not quite where I would like it yet but regular and frequent albeit in slightly smaller amounts than normal and the odd softer one still. But that was last night - today he's been outside as he is healing really nicely, had a good run round the garden and then settled to sleep in his usual place outside so I won't know until this evening how he's doing. But mostly we're at the point of wondering if the poo is a small-for-Freja, or back-to-normal-for-Odin size, and she is so regular that it can only be his.
