My Willie is up and about!

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craig mo

Trad climber

L.A. Ca.

Apr 14, 2013 - 05:23pm PT

good for your willie. can you help with mine

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 14, 2013 - 05:31pm PT

hmmm, your Willie doesn't seem to be shedding many blocks... and it appears to be in SoCal... sorry, you will have to find someone else.

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 15, 2013 - 05:16am PT

But it's safe to say, people are put down all the time, with a heavy dose of pain meds, when the doctor and family can't stand it any longer, but no one ever talks about it.

No doubt. Tough choice... could have done it 5 years earlier when it first got bad, but 5 years is a long time... maybe too long after a couple strokes and horrible pain from the chemo. Who the fuk knows...

Hope I die before I get old... but not too much before
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mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 22, 2013 - 10:42pm PT

In retrospect...

A week after switching Willie's food he got really sick. He wouldn't move or eat for 48 hours... wouldn't even eat treats or part of my pork taco. We (the vet and I) figured it may be an infection or obstruction. Nothing on the Xray. He got better after 4 days on antibiotics and grass-fed beef with rice. He started eating his dog food again with beef broth a couple days ago and got really sick again, same symptoms. Two days off the dog food and he is roaming like Willie should again.

We are almost certain it is Nature's Domain Beef and Sweet Potato dog food from Costco. It is supposed to be good kibble. Both our dogs seemed to do fine on the Grain-Free Salmon and Sweet Potato food for the last year. Could be a food allergy? Or a bad batch?

I feel so bad.

happiegrrrl

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Apr 22, 2013 - 10:51pm PT

Teddy got sick this summer and the only thing I could point it to was the dog food(kibble). It was Merrick, which is a very good brand, but I couldn't help but wonder, and there was just no way I could bring myself to "test it" again. He had been barfing and at times would sit down and couldn't/wouldn't walk. It seemed like e was having gastro pains, though a dog hides it well - the soldiers that they are.

I called the company and told them the story, they gave no indication they had been having any trouble with their kibbles, but told me to take it back to the store fora refund.

Having paid $15 a bag, I did take it back to the store, and told them the story. I said "I have always trusted Merrick, but SOMETHING is making my dog sick, and when I took him off this kibble, he got better."I was hoping they'd take note, mark the package and have the rep pick it up or send back. But it seemed more like the guy was just irritated with me for returning an opened bag of dog food which couldn't be resold.

Jan

Mountain climber

Okinawa, Japan

Apr 22, 2013 - 10:52pm PT

Where is that dog food made? China by any chance?

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Topic Author's Reply - Apr 22, 2013 - 11:25pm PT

Still seems to dig the salmon version, which he has been eating for a couple years. He seemed unimpressed with the last bag of salmon, which is why we tried the beef. No way he is getting anything from the beef bag... I'm keeping it for evidence!

troutbreath

climber

Kanada

Apr 22, 2013 - 11:44pm PT

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/SafetyHealth/ProductSafetyInformation/ucm319463.htm

Made my Pug mighty sick.

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Topic Author's Reply - May 25, 2013 - 11:01pm PT

Yo, Willie can't eat legumes! He has seemed inches from death (have to carry him out to poop while he drools) 3 times. When he was sick we would feed him beef and rice and sweet potatoes (same thing I eat). He would get better and we would try a new food, taking our best guess at what the evil ingredient might be. FINALLY figured out it was garbanzo beans and/or peas.

He is on new kibble without that stuff in it. He is up and about, running wild for hours at a time again and getting super excited about treats.

Jingy

climber

Somewhere out there

May 25, 2013 - 11:46pm PT

You seem to have a knack for figuring out what single ingredient is in a food stuff that is causing problems….

Cheers for the dog, good for the owner

splitter

Trad climber

SoCal Hodad, surfing the galactic plane

May 26, 2013 - 09:45am PT

Three cheers for Willie, glad to here he is feeilng much better!

mechrist

Gym climber

South of Heaven

Topic Author's Reply - May 26, 2013 - 11:42am PT

Word Jingy, that's my thing! I don't eat anything without reading the ingredients... that now applies to my dogs... one is allergic to chicken, the other to legumes.