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I did phone bayer the first time she had the reaction to advantix but not after the advantage. Yea i should probably give them a call. It mustnt be just the permethrin (tick protection) that shes allergic to. No flea problem here. Im a bit more worried about ticks though. I dont know what kind of protection to use on her now. Is your dog allergic to the products aswell? Where do i get this spray from and has it been effective for you?

I'm currently feeding my one year old jack russell something close to a barf diet except i haven't given her any probiotics or flax seed oil or any fish. Im not sure what probiotics to use. After doing a bit of research it looks like everyone is either using inner health + (which is human grade?) or protexin (which is for animals?) Am i right? Which ones better? Where does everyone get their probiotics and flax seed oil from? What is the right amount to feed a jack russell (weighs 5-6kg)? Is fish necessary in a dogs diet?

Just an update on whats been happening with bella guys. I finally recieved the advantage from bayer which is not meant to have the same reaction as the advantix on bella as it doesnt have the tick protection. I tried it on her last week and she had the same allergic reaction to it. It was so bad...i had to wash it off her straight away with detergent. Will not be trying any bayer products on her again. If your dog is allergic to advantix then i would definitly not recommend using the advantage. I really don't know what brand to use now...don't know if i should go back to frontline which shes fine with but doesnt work too well. What has worked for everyone else?

As i was making my dog's veggie slops today i decided to add a clove of garlic (finely chopped) into it because i thought that i had read some where that it was good for her and a good flee deterant. After doing some googling afterwards.. I am now not so sure. Is it ok to feed your dog garlic? Should i chuck out my half kg batch of slops that i made?

I havent been to the vet yet because she seems to be completely fine now after sleeping for most of the day. I have a jack russell so maybe this is quite common in smaller dog breeds. Thanks for the advice poodle proud. I might give them a call tomorrow. So what product would you recommend i try next? sentinel spectrum or advantage? I wish i had seen your post before i gave it to her the 2nd time. I just wasnt sure that it was the cause of her reaction at the beginning. So when you went to the vet did he/she give you any medication for your dog? Is it necessary to still take her to the vet?

She was using frontline which she never had a reaction to. It didnt work very well on her though and she still got fleas. Ive used this more than once on her as it seems to work really well apart from the side effects. These effects seem to have gotten worse though and i will never use this product on her again Her ears have also now been twitching for the ast 15minutes. I feel horrible.

Hi all, I have just recently started using Advantix on my dog after all the good reviews about this product. I have noticed that everytime i use it on her she behaves very oddly. She will run away from me afterwards and hide underneath the couch (even though ive been gentle with her while applying it) and not want to come near me. She won't wake me up in the morning to play with her or feed her (which she does EVERY single morning) When i check on her in the morning she'll be very lethargic, her ears will still be back and she'll be uncontrollably shaking for a few minutes. Has anyone else had such an experience with this product? And could you recommend me another good product to use instead?

Just got back from the vet and I am so relieveddddddd. He said that it was nothing serious. She just ate her chicken necks too quickly and couldnt stomach them properly. Im just going to put her on boiled chicken and rice for about 4 days and then slowly introduce the raw stuff using sandra's method. The vet did say not to give her probiotics yet as it doesnt seem to be anything serious. What really surprised me was that my vet commented on the fact that chicken necks were great for her and that i should continue to feed her raw food or just dry food, never together as they digest differently. Ive just heard so many stories about vets who say that the dog food that they sell at their clinic is the only recommended food for a puppy. He also said that the abnormalities in her faeces was because meat like lamb is too fatty for her and its probably best that i introduce it later on when shes a little older. thanks for all the advice everyone. Im going to persist with BARF but more slowly this time. Fingers crossed

I agree. BARF doesn't suit every dog. Some of my dogs have BARF'ed and done really well. I currently have two dogs which it does not suit so I'm not BARF feeding any dogs at all the moment. Feed what he is doing well on. Then maybe later when the puppy has stablised a bit try slowly introducing new foods. Poor puppy probably feels like a bomb has hit its intestines. She did do ok when she was just on Eagle Pack and a bit of wet food. Well she didnt vomit or have diarrhea atleast but she was always scratching. What made me change was the fact that she stopped wanting to eat the old food. She'd always sniff at it and then walk away and then maybe a few hrs later when she got realy hungry she'd eat half of it.With the raw food on the other hand, she really likes it and always finishes it. But it just doesnt agree with her stomach. Now i dont know what to do because even if i put her back on the old diet she probably won't even eat it. What do you feed this dogs now clyde if you're not feeding them on BARF?

How fatty were the chicken wings and chicken necks? How many did you give at a time? Did the lamb off cuts contain any bone or were they just fat and meat? Don't feed rice. Not needed in a dogs diet. I gave her 1 chicken wing at a time which werent that fatty however the necks (i gave her 3 small ones) which i got from coles were quite fatty. The lamb off cuts were mainly meat with only a small bit of bone and i tried to trim the fat off these. She didnt have a reaction to the lamb the first time i gave it to her. Could it be that the second one i gave her had too much fat which caused her to not digest it properly and have slimy faces?

I have been feeding her the same thing for breakfast for the past 2 weeks- some Eagle Pack with pureed veggies with either egg/ yoghurt added to it. There were also a few days which i added the leftover mackerals to this aswell. ----> this made her vomit For 1 night i fed her some canned mackarels ---> She was ok with this For 3 nights in a row i fed her raw chicken wings ---> faeces was foamy and made her constipated For 2 nights i fed her lamb off cuts ---> faeces covered in slimy substance I started off just feeding her beef mince (sometimes mixed with rice) and for the remaining nights i have fed her either beef/kangaroo mince as im too scared to feed her anything else after the reactions shes had with the foods listed above. But last night i thought id give it a go with feeding her chicken necks ----> made her throw up and diarrhea

Thanks for giving such thorough reply tyra. As you can tell im quite new to this whole BARF thing but from all the good things ive read about it I really want to stick with it. Im just not sure what to do now after last night. Should i not be feeding her chicken wings and necks at all and move onto carcasses? Should i be feeding her raw food at all tonight? Or should i gradually introduce it into her diet again by feeding her the dry food again and adding the raw food in bit by bit.

ive been careful to watch her while shes been eating anything with bones in it and she seems to chew everythign quite thoroughly. I even held the bones for her to chew on at the beginning to make sure of it. The main ingredient is chicken meal. I have fed her boiled chicken in the past and she was ok. Is it possible for a dog to only be allergic to raw chicken?

For the last 2 weeks i have started to introduce a BARF diet to my 10month old jackrussel. However after i fed her chicken neck last night(for the first time) she had diarrhea and vomited up her food followed by yellow foam a few times. She sat hunched over for a while and started to shake a bit. I was so worried and just about to rush her to an emergency vet (this happened at 4am in the morning) but 15minutes later she seemed ok and just wanted to sleep and now she seems quite normal. Since introducing the diet the only thing she seems to do be ok on is beef(mince). After eating lamb off cuts and kangaroo mince i noticed that her faeces was covered in a bit of jelly slimy like substance. She seems to do the worst on chicken. After i fed her chicken wings her faeces was initially a bit foamy and then she became quite constipated after eating it for 3 days. I gave her some yogurt which seemed to help a bit. I fed her a small tin of mackerel along with other things split into three days and on the last day she vomitted. So during the past 2 weeks its been hell and im not sure if it is what im doing thats wronge or if my puppy is just allergic to a lot of raw foods. i still ocasionally give her a bit of Eagle Pack mixed with other foods in the mornings just to finish whats left in the bag. I changed her diet in the fist place as she never really liked dry food (Eagle Pack holistic) and i had to always mix other things such as canned wet food (Optimum puppy formula) with it. She seemed to put on a lot of weight with her old diet too. Would it be wise to just give up on BARF and switch her back over to her old diet? She seems to really like eating raw food. Im going to take her to my vet this afternoon but i just wanted some advice before i go. Has anyone else had similar problems? Is my puppy allergic to most raw meat? I didnt introduce all the different types of raw food gradually into her diet. Could this be the problem? Sorry about the really long post. Please help!