Definitely, ByFlo. The symptoms that were once a thing of the past are now starting to creep back in on his lower steroid dose. I have caught him doing his fly catching also:
Hes also gone back to violently scratch at his ear and limping, really obsessive paw licking and sometimes (like last night) his eyes were slightly reed and both eyes were in completely different directions to each other (is that related?) . Im not getting the comfortable vibe from him that I was getting before which is a bit of a worry. Thing is, the steroids once a day every day was basically a cure for him, his symptoms were basically none existing but unfortunately, we went to our family caravan on Friday and in a matter of hours he started violent diarrhoea. That was fine, but then on the second lot and from then on it was bloody diarrhoea. it got to a point where his back legs were covered in blood which was pretty horrifying, ofcorse, seeing this we rang the local vets around there (they were smashing and actually KNEW about SM!!) and we had an appointment within an hour of ringing. Soon after that, the vet said the sterroids hes on could be causing some issues with his stomach which is a little weird as we havent had trouble before, but hey. She also said it could be some random bug and she put him on some anti biotics and that did the trick.
Ever since his rear end has been completely fine. She said to contact The Willows about what just happened and to tell the secretary to pass on the information to Stephanie. So we rang the Willows and told them about his
severe bloody back end and the secretary said shed pass the info on. We said to make sure she rang in the afternoon on Monday to make sure we were around when she rang. So Money came and we got back in the afternoon to a phone message... She rang at 11PM when we were out and said: "I hear Ziggy has a
little bit of an issue with his bottom, blah blah blah
and if its bloody you can withdraw the steroids for up to 48 hours to see if that solves the problem" Now this isnt Stephanies fault, the person we spoke to on the phone didnt really sound like she was listening when we told her to stress the severity of his situation... Maybe im reading into it too much, but I dont think she got the whole story passed on to her? Hope we didnt waste too much of her time as a result! We have yet to ring her as we are doing as she said to give him one half every other day after a while of the half a day dosage. So we are doing that now and the vets on holiday also said to do that and to contact her later this week. So wel do that and see how things go from here!
Anyway, thats where we are at right now!