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I was introduced to a vet upon Nice’s entry into Singapore in November 2013. The vet had been very detailed in her examination. As it is my first time owning a guide dog, I would always consult her for issues big and small that happened to Nice so much so that I trusted the medication prescribed and would give religiously to cure her conditions, ranging from ear infection, digestive issue to skin allergies.

However, since January 2018, Nice’s skin condition took a turn for the worse. I brought her to many other vets, all concluded no underlying issues and prescribed diets and dog foods to no avail.

Her condition deteriorated on 17 February 2019 without any apparent reason. She was diagnosed with acute liver failure and was given only 48 hours to live. The attending vet said in his years of practice, no dog survived 29.8 times toxicity of that of a normal liver. In desperation, I knocked on Rosemary’s door once again. She gave me a bottle of VigourCells in January and I was giving to Nice which saw improvement. I researched and discovered liver failure in dogs is common occurrence as I read that two guide dogs from UK and Australia died respectively at short notices from this condition. Rosemary not only blessed me with another bottle of VigorCells, a bottle of probiotics and omega pro to feed Nice on 18 February. In the animal hospital, three rounds of plasma transfusions were administered yet, the platelets kept depleting. Nice had no appetite at all and we had to force feed.

However, on 25 Feb upon feeding her probiotics, her appetite came back as I learnt from Rosemary that her gut health had been fixed, hence her appetite. From then on, She is a ball of energy, bouncy, returned to her greedy self and the happiest news, free from prescribed drugs and an unofficial spokesdog of Elixir Botanica.

Lee Lee and Nice the Guide Dog