That is also the company that our holistic vet uses.  I am seeing him with Roxie for the first time Saturday so I don't know what he'll recommend, but he'd prescribed their products for my dearly departed GSD, Logan, for degenerative myelopathy and anal sac cancer.  I just started Roxie on Apocaps and K9 Immunity Plus since we finished chemo on 7/1.

How great Atlas is getting his treatments at home!  I'd taken Logan and our other DD GSD, M.E. Lou, to another holistic vet for acu and she also used electro-acu and traumeel injections.  I believe all the modalities kept them both comfortable enough to extend their lives.  Also dragged those poor kids to a rehab place with both a deep pool and water treadmill.  Logan HATED the treadmill; used to plod along and then would just stop, slide off the back end, and send us a rude digit in his thought bubble (he was like that).  Liked the swim, though; long as I ran around the edge of the pool and we played keep-away with his Frisbee.  M.E. was just the opposite; thought she was going to drown in the big pool but liked the treadmill.  Any of the aqua exercises have a great strengthening effect with so much less stress on the body.

Good luck with your new program!

-Liz and Roxie Roo Roo

May be some of the treadmills just aren't deep enough for a dog of Atlas' stature!  The place we went was originally a horse rehab facility, and they still use it for horses as well as dogs.  The swim pool has a long underwater ramp that goes into the main part of the pool and that is 13 feet deep.  The treadmillwas installed in a stall-type of structure that lowered into a tank with a Jacuzzi.  That tank was heated for the treadmill work.  Big pool wasn't, which I didn't like in the winter; great place, though; handled lots of serious cases and treated them all  with great care.

Holistic vet wasn't familiar with Apocaps or K9 Immunity ; I brought the product descriptions with me.  He couldn't tell what kind of apoptogens the Apocaps has, and I didn't know.  He didn't see anything wrong with either. He did suggest burdock root, turmeric, chlorophyll, and human probiotics (refrigerated kind), and feeding her sardines or mackerel since they're natural sources of fish oil and the calcium needed for the body to use the oil.  So I'll try them, too, although she's got a nose like a freaking bloodhound and refuses to eat anything she doesn't like the smell of!!

The adventures continue....

-Liz

I knew I read it somewhere!!  Thanks much; sent the page onto the vet so hope he'll take a look.  He was also curious about Tripawds, so he might find this all very interesting.

-Liz 

Hi Kimber's Mom.  I composed this as a PM but your name didn't come up in the recipient list-I think because you're a "guest".  I'm so sorry that Kimber is going through this, and that you're going down this path again. 

In hindsight (SORRY!!), the anal sac cancer was less an issue with Logan than the DM; it was his mobility that finally forced the decision.  He'd lost his longtime sister/pest GSD earlier that year, and he just seemed to fade after she passed.  He made it past his 14th barkday, and this was after emergency bloat surgery at 12, becoming stone deaf, and having been an old soul when he was a pup.  My husband (who's had back issues for years) and I spent 6 months hauling Logan's his back end around.  One day we fell going out the kitchen slider and he turned and gave me The Look.  And it was time. He did have occasional bouts of diarrhea that we assumed were partly due to the cancer.

I'll look back and see if I have a receipt with the name of the herbs we used; I don't remember all the "stuff" we went thru with the old boy!

How old is Kimber?  I hope she is comfortable.  This is such hard stuff to manage; my heart and prayers go to you both.  I wish I could be more help.

Hugs, 

-Liz and Angel Roxie