We got another Poodle last year and he's amazing; agility contest winner when we can keep him on the course. Anyway, he's an itchy boy so I got him a Cytopoint injection on 12/24. No issues for the first week but begin to regurgitate food occasionally so I got him a slow feeder bowl. On Wed he began the projectile diarrhea which has now lasted into the weekend. He's on 0.25 Dex daily (as of this morning) so I'll run that for a week. Feeding boyo some organic unflavored yogurt and that Fortiflora probiotic. Was using human Visbiome Adv GI Care but it's too powerful (causes loose stools in dogs). So be very careful with monoclonals. I've talked to DVMs at Davis and Cornell and bot are hedging but assume the Cytpoint is causal.
Beautiful dog! One of ours has had his allergies seemingly get worse each year, or extend a longer time of year. He is just now hitting the point of winter where he isn't itching and licking his paws raw. The injection for us only lasted a month at best and the pills seem to be useless.
Sorry, meant to say he had diarrhea, not projectile, the next day, but it went away and no other issues with it. Our Goldens always had issues with shots, different treats, and god forbid we change their food. Also both ended up with cancer and going through that twice plus the issues with shots and anything ingested that was different is partly what got us over to looking at mix breed rescues. I hope he gets better quick!
No to Apoquel due to the risk-profile. I am grooming him more often; more baths. He's much better today but still pretty loose back there. Going with IP-6, glutamine, FortiFlora and that dietary clay to firm him up. I suspect it's partially food intolerance. He was eating only Stella & Chewy's frozen Super Beef but now we went with Royal Canin Digestive Care. The Cytopoint saw a complete cessation of the itching but at much too high a cost in health.