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Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Sun May 19, '13 11:32am PST  Last time I took Koorazh into the woods of West Virginia in May I ended up pulling more than 30 ticks off of him and about 10 off of me. In fact, I cut the hike short because he was getting so many ticks. He ended up getting a tick borne illness. We just stay out of the woods during high tick season until they invent doggy sized hazmat suits. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Fri May 17, '13 6:57am PST  More frequent, unformed or liquid stool, some farting. (Sorry to be so descriptive.) I never heard anyone doing homemade having to transition when switching proteins, although on kibble everyone talks about transition as important, so I wanted to check. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > IBD? Colon problems? Help!

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Fri May 17, '13 6:55am PST  Thanks. I can't remember if we ended up on Z/D for a while because this has been going on for so long but since I can't remember it can't hurt to try it again. Yeah, I hate that stuff -- not a great quality dog food, and expensive -- but if it works, it works. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > IBD? Colon problems? Help!

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Wed May 15, '13 2:23pm PST  We've had these problems consistently regardless of what's been fed, and we've tried over the years a large number of things: premium kibble, limited ingredient kibble, premium canned (Weruva), and now homemade. No chicken, no grains. His current homemade diet is some combo of protein, 50% (turkey breast, beef, egg, cottage cheese, tuna, salmon), 25% rice, 25% veggies (such as carrots, peas, apple, banana, broccoli or kale, green beans). We've tried so many things that I am pretty confident that while diet can make it worse (fatty stuff seems to make it worse), nothing makes it go away. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Home Prepared Food & Recipes > Diarrhea when switching proteins?

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Wed May 15, '13 3:48am PST  I alternate K on turkey and beef, with occasional days of tuna and an egg throw in here and there. He'll eat one protein for about two weeks and then we switch. Does your dog get diarrhea when you switch protein sources? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Wed May 15, '13 3:46am PST  I can't speak to surgery, I'll leave that to someone else. My dog has all 4 dew claws, and they are very lightly attached. He chews the ones in front and keeps them better trimmed than I would; I am always scared to trim the ones in back which grow into Fu Manchu circle claws very rapidly. I would not stop my dog trimming his - it's a bonus for us. Is your dog actually hurting himself? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Dog Health > IBD? Colon problems? Help!

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Wed May 15, '13 3:44am PST  K has been having problems for several years now and it is getting worse. About 8-10 hours after his last meal, he starts breathing in short breaths with a sharp exhale, licking his lips, and gulping; at its worst he pants so heavily that the bed shakes. This *only happens at night.* In the day he sometimes a little tired if he had a very bad night, but otherwise looks healthy and happy and plays and exercises normally. I keep taking him to the vet, who doesn't see anything wrong, and where we are now is that they would need to do an intestinal biopsy or an endoscopy to diagnose him -- and they don't even know which of those they should do. He is nine years old, normal weight, and bloodwork. His stool is sometimes yellow and unformed, sometimes brown and normal looking. After feeding commercial limited ingredient diet (Natural Balance) for a long time, on the theory that food allergies were in play, I switched him to home made. He now eats 50% meat, 25% veggie mix, 25% rice, and calcium. Switching to homemade did not seem to help his symptoms (although he likes it a lot more). I've tried varying the amount and times of day that he is fed (small meals, 3 times a day; no food at night time, etc) and it doesn't make a difference. However, if he fasts the day (for example, if he has been vomiting, and I fasted him), he does not have any problems, so it is clearly related to eating. I hate seeing him suffer, but I hesitate to take him for an intestinal biopsy even if I could find someone I trusted to do that in my area. Last time I took him to the vet, they thought he had a sinus infection that had passed to the brain, drilled a hole in his skull to scope his sinuses and did a MRI; found nothing except unexplained sinus congestion. It's not clear to me that they could do much for him even if they identified the problem. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Home Prepared Food & Recipes > How much to feed?

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Tue May 7, '13 6:18am PST  Many thanks. I've seen varying recommendations on the web, so was unsure. Part of my confusion came from confusing descriptions that used either weight or volume. The mixture that I describe above is 2 cups, and weighs 8.6 ounces, so is roughly half a pound of food; one pound would therefore be 4 cups. I've seen websites recommending this for a ten pound dog (!!!). While K would probably eat until he exploded, exploding dog is not a good outcome for either of us. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Home Prepared Food & Recipes > How much to feed?

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Mon May 6, '13 9:35am PST  I have a 55 pound dog. We do 2.5 mile walk most days, and the rest of the day he is hanging out and sometimes chasing squirrels in his yard. I've recently switched to homemade. I am giving him 1 cup of meat (beef or turkey), 1/2 cup of brown rice, 1/2 cup vegie mix, and some seaweed calcium for a meal. I am not sure, however, how much of this to give him. I believe that one of the reason that he was having tummy problems (which is what led me to homemade) may have been overeating. He used to free feed kibble, and we didn't have any problems, but once he got to a doggy daycare that had scheduled meal times, he would sometimes skip a meal, then want to make it up later, and I think this began to be an issue. I can't trust him to tell me how much to give him, especially because he really likes the homemade. The other day he ate 8 cups of this mixture, and it was clearly too much; he was in a lot of GI distress all night. Yesterday he got 5 cups and had slight distress. I'm not sure if there is a causal relationship. How much does your dog weigh? How active is your dog? And how many cups a day do you feed? my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

Koorazh You can't catch- me!     Barked: Thu Mar 21, '13 9:34am PST  Thanks, Taggert. I did have him on heavy duty acid blockers for a month and it did nothing. And at its worst, he is laying on his side doing shallow, rapid breathing for hours -- scaring me half to death. He seems to do much better with the breakfast I make him -- turkey or beef (cup to a cup and a half), cottage cheese (half to a cup) and a little bit of broccoli or green beans -- but I know he is not getting everything he needs nutritionally from that, so we keep trying with the commercial dog foods. I've brought him to the vet many times after a bad scary night, but since he only gets sick and night, and seems to be fine during the day time, the vet never sees anything wrong. And he has not lost weight, and his blood work is fine, etc. my posts | my page | msg me | my family's posts | gift me | become pals [notify]

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