We booked a vet appointment for the earliest appointment they had. It was from there that the journey started of getting him to a healthy state and to gain weight. We started with vet-prescribed wet dog food and with Wagg puppy kibble. This still didn't agree with him after 2 weeks, so we were told to put him on boiled chicken and rice just to try and get his stool at a somewhat healthy consistency. That did help, but it was obvious he couldn't stay on a bland diet of chicken and rice his whole life, so we found tails.com tailored pet food. This was the food that started to help him gain a little bit of weight and his stools were looking a little better. Finally, a turn in the right direction we thought! This poor pup had been through so much and missed vital socialisation and puppy play.
Then came this little bump in the road when we took him to his last jab appointment.
We found out some upsetting news, that our beautiful 16-week-old puppy actually had cataracts and a scratch across his pupil. They didn't know if the cataracts were connected by the scratch across his pupil or whether they would fade as he got older. I left the appointment in bits, my world had fallen apart, I was trying to connect all the dots and suddenly realised why he wouldn't chase a ball... it all started to make sense.
We were determined to get this food issue sorted after all the things poor, little baby Ditto had been through. But then came another issue, he was bored of his food after 6 months of being on Tails. He couldn't touch wet food as it was just too rich and went straight through him, so we started head scratching trying to get food into this dog.
We went to our local pet store asking if there were any options that we hadn't exhausted. A lady popped up and questioned if we had ever heard about raw feeding, we had heard a little about it but never done our full research on it.