Extreme Diarrhea!

[_Trish]

I feed pre-made raw for the most part, I'm just now getting into prey model raw, I mostly order it in bulk from Hare Today, Gone Tommorow but also sometimes buy commercial raw, Bravo, Primal and Nature's Variety if I'm in a pinch.

I ordered the fine ground chicken, turkey, beef, and rabbit. The dog was pulled from the pound, so who knows what he was used to eating, the pound was feeding a "mixed barrel" of food, it was different bags of food that were donated, all poured into a giant barrel. Once I pulled him from the pound for rescue, I had him taken to a vet, and had a vet check performed, and he was tested for HW, and had a fecal done.. he had already been vaccinated at the pound. He tested negative for hw, and fecal also came back negative for parasites. But anyway, I was feeding the hare-today when I brought him home, so gave him his first meal of raw, and fed 2% of his body weight, he was 25 lbs so I gave him 4 oz. in the AM, which he happily ate, and then about an hour later started having violent diarrhea, so I chalked it up to nerves, fed him his second meal, 4 oz. (it was chicken, if that matters) and he again had diarrhea shortly after. We kept him on the chicken for 3 weeks, but he started vomiting a lot, and he quit having complete liquid diarrhea but it was still very runny and he was losing weight. We thought maybe he had an issue with poultry so we then tried beef but after several weeks of not doing well on that, we went ahead and started feeding him California Natural grain-free Venison Meal and Potato and he did very well on it, had nice firm stool his first night of eating it, and did not vomit. So we continued to feed him the CN, and that is what he went to his adoptive home eating, and as far as I know that is what he is still eating, his new owners never reported him having any further issues.

[DaneMama]

Maybe this dog was intolerant of the processed raw diet you were giving him?

[_Trish]

It's a possibility, but all it is, is meat, bone, and organs ground up, and then frozen.. with nothing else added.

http://hare-today.com/product_info.p...roducts_id=115

http://hare-today.com/product_info.p...products_id=61

Some of the commercial raw ( the kind that is sold at pet stores) I've used has contained vegetables and fruits, so I know sometimes dogs can have issues because of that, but the hare-today raw doesn't include either of those.

Who knows what it was, maybe it was the particular food I was feeding, but none of mine have issues with it, and I know quite a few people that order from that company. Louie had a real tough time when I started feeding him raw, but from reading some of the posts on here, it seems like it was normal.. he would regurgitate his food pretty often (but did not eat it back up), and would vomit white foamy stuff or bile. He always had very hard stool though. The worst thing was that he had rancid breath, smelled like a rotting carcass on a hot summer day.. it was awful. I think it might have been acid reflux? Not sure. He hasn't had any of those problems lately, must have just been his body adjusting to the new diet.

[Mia]

Yikes! I hope you guys are doing ok! Scary. I would have to agree with Nat on her comment.

[Alayna]

Update: Thor is doing much better! His diarrhea is clearing up. It's just a bit loose, but not liquid any longer. Fasted him for 12 hours, like suggested. Then fed him half his ration without fat/skin and organ meat. He's pretty happy at the moment. Probably because he doesn't have a sore bum anymore. Lol.

[Mia]

Yay!!!! Awesome! Happy to hear.

[schtuffy]

Yay!

BTW, I love puppies and their oversized paws!!!

[Boxers&Pom's Mom]

Just make sure the chicken that you feeding him is not enhanced.Some of them had added chicken broth and it has a lot of sodium.

[DaneMama]

Thanks for the update! Glad to hear that all is better with little Thor!!!! Keep up the good work...

[Spoo&two]

Our new puppy went through that. I was discouraged and it was awful. I really thought that I had killed him. I won't even go into the gorey details - however I've read enough to know that it happens enough to those switching to raw. It seems to be an initial reaction. I'm glad your puppy is better. What a darling pup. Our dog is doing pretty well with the raw feeding now. We've been raw feeding since January first. Take it slow and don't get too discouraged.