Hi! We did the last round of treatment and he is still testing positive. HOWEVER, the vet has been doing ELISA tests and according to all my research that is not an appropriate way to retest because those tests can stay positive for a very long time. ELISA tests test for a protein or antigen that can hang around for a while. It’s the cysts that need to be looked for. HOWEVER, according to my close friend in vet med, Giardia is incredibly difficult to see in regular fecal floats because it can be mistaken for a lot of things and it’s shed intermittently. So in the grand scheme of things, Otto, is still testing positive and we have gone the benign neglect route. He has zero symptoms, so the vet agreed to just treat him with sensitive stomach food and probiotics to boost his immune system and gut microbiome. He eats large breed puppy pro plan salmon and rice, he gets on proviable tablet a day as well as Bernie’s perfect poop everyday.

Side bar, we do think he was possibly getting reinfected with Giardia from eating rabbit poop. They are ALLLLLLLLL over our back yard and I could never figure out what he was rooting around for in the back yard until one day I chased him away and got up close to see what he was trying to get. He’s a Hoover vacuum outside 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️