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Leave a bone for KAHLUA
Nicknames: Louie, lou lou, chicken wing ( because of her ears ), peanut, pretty baby, crazy girl, woowah, Miss SneakyPants
Doggie Dynamics:
Likes: Car Rides especially, & loves to catch and eat snowballs.
Pet-Peeves: Being woken up, being ignored
Favorite Toy: Her "pooh bear". It's her winnie the pooh stuffed animal
Favorite Food: Raw Tomatoes...^_^
Favorite Walk: She is too high strung to walk, she runs lol
Best Tricks: Hmm, she's just intelligent in general, she picks up on everything really fast, she's got pretty much everything down, from shaking, to high fives, to speaking, all that goofy stuff.
Arrival Story: Well, my previous dog had recently died, and I was still sad, I wasnt looking for a new dog, because they're all irreplaceable, and one day when I went out with a friend to do her door to door work, we came across this woman who had this little puppy, and the puppy was 6 months old. Somehow we got on the topic of the dog. She told us her daughter didnt want her, because she chewed shoes, and that she often kicked her in the head to make her stop. Was extremely cruel to her in general, because aparently she wanted a pure bred pit bull for fighting, so kahlua wasnt good enough for her -.-. ( They had named her Ginger, but I changed her name to Kahlua, like the black russian drink, it suited her more )Her mother got her for her for christmas that year, and the mom kept saying how she wanted to get rid of the dog cause she felt bad for what was happening to her. So, to make a long story short, I told her that I would take her, and I did, took her home with me that very day.
When I got her home, she was very terrified, for the first 3 months I had her, the only way I could approach her without scaring her, was if I crawled towards her on my hands and knees. That went away though. She would be so scared of you if you were standing up ( I think it was because she was afraid of being kicked ), but then if you were laying down or on your knees, she'd run and play and be happy just as any normal puppy. So i'm very pleased I was in the right place at the right time, it's just unfortunate and infuriates me that she had to go through what she went through before I got to her. I don't know what i'd do without her.
Bio: Kahlua was diagnosed with idiopathic epilepsy in the spring of 2003. She had started having seizures every two weeks out of the blue. ( Vet says it was most likely from the abuse she endured as a pup ) A year later, she had gotten pyometra, which a a disease of the uterus, and had to have emergency surgery and have her uterus removed, or she'd die within days. This little girl has been through alot, and I mean alot. She's still the happiest and most spoiled dog on the planet regardless.
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Disability: Kahlua has Idiopathic Epilepsy
Welp, it's now been a grand total of four months since Louie's last seizure. For those that asked what exactly I've been giving her, the answer is, alot of fatty foods, such as oils and such, fish oil, olive oil, etc. ( it's good for her coat too =] ) As far as the dog food is concerned, she's been eating Kibbles n' Bits adult dog food, reason being, it's the lowest I can find on the shelf as far as low protein is concerned, plus, she seems to really enjoy it.
I have kept her on a no carb diet ( i crash it every 4 days and let her have them, because carbs serve as energy too, and I just want her to be happy also haha ). She still gets people food, just no noodles, or potatoes and other starches ( carbs ) along those lines. She still enjoys her rawhides, and her milkbones on occasion, and gets to eat her favorite food as often as normal ( raw tomatoes, she's a nut ^_^ ) So, I hope that helped answer any questions.
The vet is really proud of her as well, although he made the comment to me " she sure has a good mommy for only being 20 years old". Haha, alot of people are good moms at 20!
AS HAPPY AS I AM.... i'm equally terrified. When Kahlua has seizures, they're very powerful ( grand mal ), and she usually has them in teams of 2-3 ( clusters ), i'm so thrilled that she's doing so well, but at the same time, i'm so scared, that if she does have another one, it's going to be HUGE, because of the elapsed time, and i'm very scared for her, and selfishly, for myself, because it murders my heart everytime she has them. So, anyone who reads this, please keep her in your thoughts if you'd be so kind =]
Well, Kahlua normally has seizures ever 3-4 weeks like clockwork. It's always been that way. She has "clustered seizures" as well. =( A few months ago, I was wathcing Lifetime, and there was a movie entitled " First Do No Harm". It was about a small epileptic boy, and his life story, and the kinds of medications and procedureds, diets, etc. that he went through, and what was effective, and what wasnt, and so forth.
One of the diets in the movie that helped the little boy, was a no carbohydrate diet. Similar to the ones humans take to lose weight, it's a diet Dr. Atkins originally came up with. The other was, a fat diet. I had also learned from Kahluas vet recently ( who has had ner on valume, and also kept her on phenobarbitol ) that a low protein diet was good for epileptic dogs.
So, Louie's been on a strick no carbohydrate diet ( with the exception of dog food ), and i've been giving her fat from the foods we eat, and have also been purchasing the dog food with the least amount of protein in it.
To make a long story short, she hasn't had a seizure in 11 weeks. =)
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