I’ve owed this blog update for a couple of days now - sorry I’m slow getting to it. People keep asking me what’s going on with Jack. The blogosphere is truly mind boggling sometimes.

We decided not to do the surgery for now. Too expensive. Too invasive (a huge incision plus weeks of recovery time). And Jack isn’t acting sick. So I did some research online and found that it’s possible that his current “issues” could be caused by a food intolerance, allergy, or something like irritable bowel syndrome. Cancer is worse case, and if it is cancer, we’re going to lose him either way, frankly. So we’re trying a diet designed to eliminate anything that he’s previously been eating. His previous food was a fish and potato prescription Eukenuba diet. We’re now feeding him steamed rice and chicken we prepare human style. No preservatives. Fresh food. We’re planning to do this for a couple of weeks and see if he’s better. Already he seems like he’s gained a bit of weight and he seems even more spastic, so it seem to be improving things. He’s unbelievably enthusiastic about his new diet. His “bidness” isn’t much better though, but that may take some time. This is this critical issue so we have to keep an eye on it (yuck).

It sure seems like the specialist was sure in a hurry to cut him open. That plus the cost of the procedure has me wondering if they really have my dog’s well being as their first priority. Also the fact that a food intolerance was never brought up by my vet has me a bit disgruntled and considering starting over with a new one. We’ll see how it goes in the next few weeks. If this cures him I’ll be very relieved and happy about Jack but a bit pissed off because we went through all this emotional and financial pain (and literal discomfort for Jack) for no reason, i.e. they could have addressed the food issue like a year ago.

We’ll see. Thanks very much everyone for your continued interest in Jack and I’ll update the blog as soon as there is anything to report.

Here’s a picture of him from Christmas a couple of years ago. Clearly we’re disturbing his valuable nap time.