Thanks hugapitbull!  The support here has been great.

Joy, do you mind if I ask why you chose metronomic chemo over traditional chemo?  Also, is your diet homemade or a brand of dogfood?  If it's homemade, how are you determining what ingredients and how much of each ingredient to include?  If it's dogfood, can you tell me the brand name?  My regular vet mentioned that a higher protein/low carb diet could help and I'm just starting to investigate diets.

mck025 said:

Thanks hugapitbull!  The support here has been great.

Joy, do you mind if I ask why you chose metronomic chemo over traditional chemo?  Also, is your diet homemade or a brand of dogfood?  If it's homemade, how are you determining what ingredients and how much of each ingredient to include?  If it's dogfood, can you tell me the brand name?  My regular vet mentioned that a higher protein/low carb diet could help and I'm just starting to investigate diets.

We actually did 5 regular chemo treatments (doxirubicin) after he had the spleenectomy and before the amputation.

Champ eats the Honest Kitchen Preference and I cook him whitefish as the protein. And he's supposed to get 1/2 to 3/4 cups of Preference to the same amount of protein for a regular dog each meal, but I do 1/2 cup Preference and a whole cup of whitefish in the morning and 1/4 cup Preference and 3/4 cut of whitefish in the evening. If I feel I need, I can change the mix anytime I want… Preference is pricey but I'm happy with it so far.

HK Preference is some organic, all human grade dehydrated food. No grain, no gluten.

Joy,  Thanks for letting me know that!  I read several threads where dogs had problems after doxorubicin, so it is helpful to know that there are instances where they do not have problems.