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[quote=Anonymous]We are at our wit's end with our westie.  I think I've written about her before here, maybe.  She's a 4 year old rescue dog.  When we got her, she had worms, which required several rounds of treatment.  She was not housebroken when she came it us (at a year old) and was difficult to house train.

She seems to have some sort of recurring stomach/intestinal issue.  The pattern is she won't poop on a walk or two, then will have explosive diarrhea for several cycles, then be ok for a bit, then another prior of diarrhea, and so on.  We once went 5 months without incident (last summer into fall), but she's been  on a particularly bad cycle lately.

And I hate her for it.  With two small kids, two working parents, two cats, an older home, a busy overflowing schedule - I just can't take this anymore.

We've had extensive testing done - the doctor suspected Addison's, based on the cycling between fine and flare up, but after well over $1000 in testing for every possible thing and multiple stool samples, we can't find anything specific wrong.  We've switched to Blue Buffalo food and ONLY fed her that - no treats, no people food, no anything.  There is nothing that seems to trigger a flare up.  (we were switching flavors of the canned food after finishing a can, but we noticed that seemed to irritate the situation so we stick to the same damn flavor of wet food every time).  She has a probiotic every morning, too.

After a particularly bad week last week (try getting woken up at 3 am by a terrible stench of dog diarrhea next to your bed!), we've banished her to kitchen at night, but honestly I'm not thrilled about cleaning up dog diarrhea every morning nor sanitizing our kitchen floor every day, nor thinking about all the disgusting things she is doing to our kitchen floor.

What can we do?  What have we left unexplored?  Do we move to making her damn food (rice/chicken?)?  Is there some sort of guideline or protocol we can follow, outlined on some website someplace?  Do we go to another vet, for a second opinion?  Do we build a doghouse and keep her outside in a dog run, hosing it out?  I am a dog lover - but I am just at the end of my rope.  Any detailed advice appreciated.  [/quote]

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