Thought you might appreciate an update on the Potter's Tabritis. We've been giving them to our oldies for nearly 4 weeks now ( they were bunny hopping quite a lot which Peter Gurney reckons can be due to arthritis etc ).
We started with Peter Gurney's recommended dose of half a tablet each but I noticed they were weeing a lot more ( and it was a bit brown ) and their poos were a bit soft - this was probably down to some of the ingredients being diuretics and senna leaf being included too. So we decided after a week that whilst it was too soon to stop ( as we'd never know if they worked and the vet had given us the go ahead ) a quarter dose may be better.
This seems to have done the trick and the side effects have vanished, they each get a quarter of a tablet crushed and mixed with 1ml of water and they actually seem to enjoy it but here's the big news: the bunny hopping seems to have vanished!
Something else I noticed that may have nothing to do with the tablets - Moonpig had a little bald spot - I thought it was getting bigger as it became more prominent but on closer inspection I realised that her hair was in fact growing back, it was growing back darker though ( she's ginger, the new hair is coffee coloured) , which was why it looked like an expanding bald patch.
Now obviously this is probably completely coincedental and has nothing to do with the tablets but hubby says he's going to remember all of this for future reference anyway! Lol!
We started with Peter Gurney's recommended dose of half a tablet each but I noticed they were weeing a lot more ( and it was a bit brown ) and their poos were a bit soft - this was probably down to some of the ingredients being diuretics and senna leaf being included too. So we decided after a week that whilst it was too soon to stop ( as we'd never know if they worked and the vet had given us the go ahead ) a quarter dose may be better.
This seems to have done the trick and the side effects have vanished, they each get a quarter of a tablet crushed and mixed with 1ml of water and they actually seem to enjoy it but here's the big news: the bunny hopping seems to have vanished!
Something else I noticed that may have nothing to do with the tablets - Moonpig had a little bald spot - I thought it was getting bigger as it became more prominent but on closer inspection I realised that her hair was in fact growing back, it was growing back darker though ( she's ginger, the new hair is coffee coloured) , which was why it looked like an expanding bald patch.
Now obviously this is probably completely coincedental and has nothing to do with the tablets but hubby says he's going to remember all of this for future reference anyway! Lol!
but I can confidently say that the bunny hop has vanished. 
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