soccerbabiesmama
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This is a long narrative, sorry - but it has been going on for several months and we'd just like her to be totally well.
Our 9 month old Raven has quite the tummy issues. My parents bought her from the breeder at 4 months old for our children while Dad was in the Middle East for his 14th deployment. She came with a brand of food called "Sport Mix," was up to date on shots, had been vet checked and was well. After research and talking with our local dog food person, we started her on Fromm Large Breed Puppy. For the first 3 months that we had her, she'd have intermittent soft stools, but figured that was normal a normal part of puppiness.
We've not been in our new house long, and there was an untrimmed hedgerow in our backyard along the house that Raven used to love to wiggle behind. One morning, she had the craziest green diarrhea and I knew immediately that she had been poisoned. Sure enough, the previous owners had placed rat poison along the back of the hedgerow and the house and Raven ate 4 bags. We called the Poison Control after totally freaking out, who assured us that she would be fine with a Vitamin K regimen. We rushed her into the vet, who did bloodwork once a week for several weeks and kept her on the vitamin K regimen. She was fine
Never showed a clotting deficiency.
During Christmas, we traveled with her to my sister's house in Scottsdale AZ, staying at pet friendly military lodging the whole way across. Raven loved the dogfood of my sister's lab.husky mix, which was Kirtland Lamb and Rice from Costco. She was never very fond of the Fromm LBP, and the ingredients looked pretty good, so we began to mix some in... and there started the problem.
On the trip home, Raven wasn't quite herself, and during the last 3 hours, her poor tummy totally let loose in the back of our SUV. She was drooling non-stop and very, very ill. Over Christmas, she got MANY treats, from eating turkey off of the kids plates, buffalo jerky from family members, dog biscuits, chicken treats... the list goes on! Everyone was in love with the new puppy, and were showing her love by feeding her (despite our best efforts to stop it - kids!). We assumed that her tummy upset was due to the wide range of food that she had just been exposed to.
We read on the internet, to hold back food for 24 hours, then give plain rice and chicken. So we did that, and she didn't get better. We took her to the vet (because we don't want to take any chances with her), who in January prescribed Sucralfate. She started to get better, as long as we didn't do the chicken and rice. Back to the Fromm mixed with lamb and rice, she got better, then sick again. We took out the Lamb and Rice, she was better, stopped the Sucralfate, then she was sick again. We started the Sucralfate again, switched from the Fromm LBP to Fromm Whitefish and Potato (which the vet said is a novel diet and good choice) - and she loves it! But, if we stop the Sucralfate, she gets very, very loose stools with mucus.
Does anyone know if there are long term effects from the long term use of Sucralfate? Could it be that she'll just be on that forever? Even though there was no clotting deficiency from the rat poison, could that have damaged her GI tract? She has been on the Sucralfate and Whitefish for over a week, with firm, normal stools but 24 hours off the med and we get soft light colored stools with mucus.
Lastly, her weight gain has really slowed down since January. She was 85lbs at 7 months, gaining 12-15lbs a month. She has only gained 12 lbs over the past 2 months. I assume that the weight gain slows as they get older. but it does coincide with the chronic diarrhea.
Any advice, thoughts, experiences would be helpful. We just totally love this girl!
Our 9 month old Raven has quite the tummy issues. My parents bought her from the breeder at 4 months old for our children while Dad was in the Middle East for his 14th deployment. She came with a brand of food called "Sport Mix," was up to date on shots, had been vet checked and was well. After research and talking with our local dog food person, we started her on Fromm Large Breed Puppy. For the first 3 months that we had her, she'd have intermittent soft stools, but figured that was normal a normal part of puppiness.
We've not been in our new house long, and there was an untrimmed hedgerow in our backyard along the house that Raven used to love to wiggle behind. One morning, she had the craziest green diarrhea and I knew immediately that she had been poisoned. Sure enough, the previous owners had placed rat poison along the back of the hedgerow and the house and Raven ate 4 bags. We called the Poison Control after totally freaking out, who assured us that she would be fine with a Vitamin K regimen. We rushed her into the vet, who did bloodwork once a week for several weeks and kept her on the vitamin K regimen. She was fine
Never showed a clotting deficiency.During Christmas, we traveled with her to my sister's house in Scottsdale AZ, staying at pet friendly military lodging the whole way across. Raven loved the dogfood of my sister's lab.husky mix, which was Kirtland Lamb and Rice from Costco. She was never very fond of the Fromm LBP, and the ingredients looked pretty good, so we began to mix some in... and there started the problem.
On the trip home, Raven wasn't quite herself, and during the last 3 hours, her poor tummy totally let loose in the back of our SUV. She was drooling non-stop and very, very ill. Over Christmas, she got MANY treats, from eating turkey off of the kids plates, buffalo jerky from family members, dog biscuits, chicken treats... the list goes on! Everyone was in love with the new puppy, and were showing her love by feeding her (despite our best efforts to stop it - kids!). We assumed that her tummy upset was due to the wide range of food that she had just been exposed to.
We read on the internet, to hold back food for 24 hours, then give plain rice and chicken. So we did that, and she didn't get better. We took her to the vet (because we don't want to take any chances with her), who in January prescribed Sucralfate. She started to get better, as long as we didn't do the chicken and rice. Back to the Fromm mixed with lamb and rice, she got better, then sick again. We took out the Lamb and Rice, she was better, stopped the Sucralfate, then she was sick again. We started the Sucralfate again, switched from the Fromm LBP to Fromm Whitefish and Potato (which the vet said is a novel diet and good choice) - and she loves it! But, if we stop the Sucralfate, she gets very, very loose stools with mucus.
Does anyone know if there are long term effects from the long term use of Sucralfate? Could it be that she'll just be on that forever? Even though there was no clotting deficiency from the rat poison, could that have damaged her GI tract? She has been on the Sucralfate and Whitefish for over a week, with firm, normal stools but 24 hours off the med and we get soft light colored stools with mucus.
Lastly, her weight gain has really slowed down since January. She was 85lbs at 7 months, gaining 12-15lbs a month. She has only gained 12 lbs over the past 2 months. I assume that the weight gain slows as they get older. but it does coincide with the chronic diarrhea.
Any advice, thoughts, experiences would be helpful. We just totally love this girl!
