Hello
My 11.5 y/o siberian husky has eosinophyllic lung disease his whole life. At the least he coughed a bit in the summer, at the worst ( one time) he got bronchitis and ended up with a gram negative pneumonia. He survived on O2 and IV antibiotics and is now well. During this period he has become weaker in his rear legs. He gets up fine, but when he lays down he lowers his butt and then does this strange 'dance' with his front legs to move his body into a position that is comfortable. Right now he is sleeping on his belly ( sphinx style) with his rear legs stretched out along either side of his body completely strethced out straight near his head. When he got home from the hospital, he came up the flight of 12 steps to sleep with us at night. Now he doesn't want to climb the steps.
He is finished his antibiotics, which he tolerated well until the last few weeks when he developed colitis. The vet gave him another antibiotic for his bowel, which worked in one day! I have been cooking him beef and potato with a small amount of bone meal and liver and he has been eating well and gaining back weight slowly. She also advised adding metamucil to his diet, like the rest of us :) His bowels are now Ok. He no longer has diahrreah or loss of control.
Since he finished his antibiotics I have started him on Recovery which is a glucosamine, MSM and fatty acid supplement. He is walking fast and comfortably on our walks, I have been keeping them to about 20 mins, and he doesn't want to go home after that short a walk, so he does a sit down strike when I turn to go home, but I don't want to exhaust him and wonder if there anything else I can do to help him?