maddylemon
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Hi everyone,
So I took Harry to the vet yesterday, as both a general checkup and due to a few concerns. Harry had an extremely long brumation, lasting from November to March. When he started to come out of it, he went completely off of food. Harry has always been an extremely picky eater, and due to his special needs, and he often is fed slurries. They are much easier for him to eat and I can be assured that he is getting all his nutritional needs met.
His current slurry recipe is 3 parts Oxbow Critical Care, 1 part Oxbow Carnivore Care, vegetable baby food, calcium with D3 powder, bee pollen, and a multivitamin added 2 times a week.
Due to be tight on money and everything looking good in regards to his normal behavior and husbandry, I held off on taking him to the vet.
We went to the vet yesterday and the vet didn't seem overly concerned by him. This vet only sees exotics and the group of vets is one of the best in the area. I was unable to get a fecal sample to bring in for her. She gave him a precautionary dosage of deworming meds for both pinworms and protozoa. He weighs 308 grams and is 18 inches long. He is about a year and a half. She did say that his neurological condition was definitely from his MBD earlier when I first got him. She says he looks very healthy now and doesn't have any signs that the MBD is still ongoing. She did say that he will continue to have difficulties his whole life and the best I can do is to make is make him comfortable
However, she did say something that confused me. She said he should be getting calcium 2 times a week? Everywhere I have looked this has not been the case.
Overall how does everything sound that she said/did? I am extremely overprotective when it comes to my baby so I just wanted to double check.
So I took Harry to the vet yesterday, as both a general checkup and due to a few concerns. Harry had an extremely long brumation, lasting from November to March. When he started to come out of it, he went completely off of food. Harry has always been an extremely picky eater, and due to his special needs, and he often is fed slurries. They are much easier for him to eat and I can be assured that he is getting all his nutritional needs met.
His current slurry recipe is 3 parts Oxbow Critical Care, 1 part Oxbow Carnivore Care, vegetable baby food, calcium with D3 powder, bee pollen, and a multivitamin added 2 times a week.
Due to be tight on money and everything looking good in regards to his normal behavior and husbandry, I held off on taking him to the vet.
We went to the vet yesterday and the vet didn't seem overly concerned by him. This vet only sees exotics and the group of vets is one of the best in the area. I was unable to get a fecal sample to bring in for her. She gave him a precautionary dosage of deworming meds for both pinworms and protozoa. He weighs 308 grams and is 18 inches long. He is about a year and a half. She did say that his neurological condition was definitely from his MBD earlier when I first got him. She says he looks very healthy now and doesn't have any signs that the MBD is still ongoing. She did say that he will continue to have difficulties his whole life and the best I can do is to make is make him comfortable
However, she did say something that confused me. She said he should be getting calcium 2 times a week? Everywhere I have looked this has not been the case.
Overall how does everything sound that she said/did? I am extremely overprotective when it comes to my baby so I just wanted to double check.