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Pom has the runs...bad!...

Posted : 5/16/2009 3:05:23 PM

Been feeding Dakota a mix of ground turkey with veggies/little brown rice for several meals through-out the week, along with the Stella and Chewies raw frozen beef patties as the alternative meal. Gets one protein in the morning, the other at night, basically.

This week our local store had Bravo chicken patties, in which case, I begin feeding the 2 little dogs these patties, again with ground turkey as one meal (with veggies), the other meal the chicken patties. Which have ground chicken backs, necks, broccoli, green beans, squash in them, IIRC.

Today, after 3-4 days since beginning the Bravo, he has - sorry to be gross - liquid runs, literally.

This dog has eaten chicken on and off, cooked and raw, for years without issue. Why now??

I have no way to feed this dog store bought chicken/bones, as he has a bad neck and is notorious for choking on food, so everything has to be very very small or ground.

I'm just wondering if it isn't the Bravo patties??....reason I say this, is my sisters dog, who eats EVERYTHING, is refusing to eat them as well.

However, my other 2 dogs - Rivers (2yr old retriever) and Kuaui (9yr old chihuahua) are not having issues.

jessies_mom

Posted : 5/16/2009 8:07:52 PM

I'm so sorry about Dakota. I would suggest fasting him for 24 hours and then feeding only the ground turkey mix for a few days to see if that helps. Jessie had the runs really bad once; went 10 times in about 12 hours. Sad Turned out she had Giardia. I hope Dakota feels better soon.

jennie_c_d

Posted : 5/16/2009 10:05:18 PM

I had some issues with Bravo patties, as well, unfortunately. Tummy and skin upsets that shouldn't have been, with the ingredients list as it was on the label.

stanton

Posted : 5/16/2009 11:29:51 PM

That's what I'm thinking...they look relatively bland. But, I have to say, my big guy itches an awful lot lately for something that only has bare ingredients that he can eat from my kitchen without itching.

The pooies are not uncontrollable so that's good...but he did have an accident in the house while we were gone for a few hours, this time it had a few drops of blood.

Gonna take back the last 8 pk of patties I have and get him something else. Tonight's dinner was some brown rice mixed with scrambled eggs. He has an appetite, but is mildly lethargic....I don't like that idea. We'll see how he is in the morning.

jessies_mom

Posted : 5/17/2009 6:31:01 PM

stanton
He has an appetite, but is mildly lethargic....I don't like that idea. We'll see how he is in the morning.

Poor guy; maybe he's a little dehydrated. I hope he's better tomorrow.

stanton

Posted : 5/17/2009 10:53:47 PM

Update:

Gave him some brown rice mixed with egg this morning. he ate the rice, spit the eggs out...very very unusual for him. This guy generally eats everything.

Gave him some pedialyte which perked him right up for several hours. We had to leave for a few hours, came home to a dog that was listless and totally the opposite of how we left him...kind of freaked us out until we realized his blood sugar had probably dropped.

Gave him 1/8 tsp of pure natural honey and a small amount of cooked chicken, perked him right back up.

Don't know what the heck's going on, but I do know my big dog's got the pooies now too.

jessies_mom

Posted : 5/18/2009 6:19:01 PM

stanton
Don't know what the heck's going on, but I do know my big dog's got the pooies now too.

Did you feed your big dog the chicken patties? I hope you figure out what's going on pretty soon. Have you checked Dakota to see if he's anemic? You press firmly on his gums then remove your finger; there will be a white spot where you pressed. If it turns pink again within a few seconds, he's probably not anemic; it's called checking the capillary refill time.

stanton

Posted : 5/18/2009 7:47:33 PM

Thanks a bunch...yeah, I'm real big on double checking the pinkness of their gums anytime they seem amiss.

Yes, Rivers too has been eating the Bravo chicken patties.

Took Dakota into the vet, as he started wheezing and scarying the crap out of us. Results of his stool sample, revealed that he has an overgrowth of some type of bad bacteria, can't remember the name of it. Started with a C - colistrum or something like that. One of my dogs in the past had this issue too, 100% curable with antibiotic and pro-biotics.

Asked the vet what he feels could cause this, course he said anything from stress to sudden change of food. I do rotate the dogs food quite often, so that's a big possibility.

Going to put this little guy on boiled chicken and rice for a while to allow everything to calm down; not sure where to go from there, as i'm not sure if it IS the patties or perhaps he just doesn't do good without the right amount of veggies. When he ate HK pre-mix he was getting a lot of veggies, he still gets veggies, just not as much....perhaps he needs them.

Or...it could've been the patties...I don't know if I'll ever know. But I'm taking back what I have left, as Rivers too has had the pooies but not as bad as Dakota got them.