BeginnerChinLover
The Chin Shopaholic
Hey guys...I'm really hoping someone can help me with this! :hair:
My girl, Lilo, was in for a filing in December and they did a fecal. It came back positive for giardia. I've been battling it ever since, positive fecal after positive fecal. She's been on Panacur (0.3ml) for 5 days on, 3 days off, 5 days on, or 5 days on, 2 weeks off, 5 days on, or whatever else I have read hoping that it would work. The last two rounds she was on Panacur and Metronidazole (0.12ml) to try and seriously get rid of it for good. The result? Still a positive result. :cry3: Previously, she was just on 0.3ml of Panacur.
I bleach her cage every day or every other day when she's on meds and for the days in between, her fleece gets changed daily, her bowls, chiller, and water bottle get cleaned with her cage, and her toys are either hanging or get thrown out every morning! I don't know what else I can do to get rid of this or what I'm missing.
This is either round 6 or round 8 of meds that I just finished. I lost count forever ago. She is in the lower level of a FN 142, and Zoey (on top) has had 2 negative fecals. It's just super chin Lilo that keeps coming up with positive results.
My only guess would be she's had it since I got her in November 2010. She has never shown ANY symptoms of giardia - diarrhea, losing weight, etc. She is always either staying steady in terms of weight or she is gaining. The only time that she lost weight was when I changed her food from pet store junk, but after a few months she has put on more weight and has surpassed her weight from when I brought her home. Her poop has always been dark brown and only slightly changes to a slightly lighter brown when she is on meds.
She always had a hearty appetite for pellets and hay, until she needed her first filing in December, and she is going in again tomorrow so she has cut back a lot and I have been handfeeding her. She would destroy a Super Pet carrot dish FULL of hay once or twice per day.
Does anyone have any ideas on what my next step should be - besides go completely insane? I can't believe that two different meds didn't work...
Any insight would be super.
Thanks in advance!
My girl, Lilo, was in for a filing in December and they did a fecal. It came back positive for giardia. I've been battling it ever since, positive fecal after positive fecal. She's been on Panacur (0.3ml) for 5 days on, 3 days off, 5 days on, or 5 days on, 2 weeks off, 5 days on, or whatever else I have read hoping that it would work. The last two rounds she was on Panacur and Metronidazole (0.12ml) to try and seriously get rid of it for good. The result? Still a positive result. :cry3: Previously, she was just on 0.3ml of Panacur.
I bleach her cage every day or every other day when she's on meds and for the days in between, her fleece gets changed daily, her bowls, chiller, and water bottle get cleaned with her cage, and her toys are either hanging or get thrown out every morning! I don't know what else I can do to get rid of this or what I'm missing.
This is either round 6 or round 8 of meds that I just finished. I lost count forever ago. She is in the lower level of a FN 142, and Zoey (on top) has had 2 negative fecals. It's just super chin Lilo that keeps coming up with positive results.
My only guess would be she's had it since I got her in November 2010. She has never shown ANY symptoms of giardia - diarrhea, losing weight, etc. She is always either staying steady in terms of weight or she is gaining. The only time that she lost weight was when I changed her food from pet store junk, but after a few months she has put on more weight and has surpassed her weight from when I brought her home. Her poop has always been dark brown and only slightly changes to a slightly lighter brown when she is on meds.
She always had a hearty appetite for pellets and hay, until she needed her first filing in December, and she is going in again tomorrow so she has cut back a lot and I have been handfeeding her. She would destroy a Super Pet carrot dish FULL of hay once or twice per day.
Does anyone have any ideas on what my next step should be - besides go completely insane? I can't believe that two different meds didn't work...
Any insight would be super.
Thanks in advance!