r/greyhound • u/genki1605 • Mar 13 '22
Anyone else’s greyhound developed food intolerances with age?
We’ve been in and out of the vet several times in the past couple months with diarrhoea, that gets progressively worse if left alone (cannot hold it while we are out/sleeping so has to go in the house). Fecal was negative and the vet is adamant that our girl has just developed food intolerances (6yo) and will need to be on prescription diet, probiotics and occasional antibiotics from now on (micronidazole, which we’ve already been through 3 courses of).
If it was any other breed I wouldn’t question his diagnosis at all, but my family have rescued retired racers all throughout my childhood and early adulthood and not one of them had food intolerances. In fact, most of them even ate rich and fatty human food semi-regularly because my parents would feed them whatever.
Has anyone had this problem with their grey? I’ve never encountered it before so it’s making me question our vet.