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Thanks to you all for your feedback, all are wonderful advice and I will be taking her for her vet check when the vet comes next. Sor far the past coupla days after taking away dairy products and the chicken she has not been sick but will keep a diary on her progress and let alll know how it goes. Wonderful to have the support from you all here on DogzOnline Thanks to you all and hope all of you are doing well with your own pooches. Regards Kiwiauz

We have ferries that run every half hour to the mainland that allow dogs and one every hour or so is direct taking 30mins and 20mins for the direct one. After 12 midnight none till 4.20am so is a worry at times unless one know someone with a boat. We as from a coupla weeks ago have a qualified vet nurse here on the island for "advice" or checks etc, no treatment from her tho. The main problem here is ticks which is a primary concern for me even tho my BS is treated is still a worry for me. I am seriously considering moving in the next year. Many dogs here die from tick bites. As for where I got her from, no they did not notice any sickness in her and fed on mainly Ekanubra as they only feed their dogs on the high quality stuff. They had her for 7mths and she was amongst another dozen or so dogs and looked well when i picked her up but needed a bit of fattening up love and care. Maybe I did overdo it but she seemed fine for the first few days and after a week looked really well, her coat even improving and only had vomited 2x but very little. This I expected with the change of food and enviroment. I have now cut down her amount of food to 4 iddy biddy bonny feeds a day, barely half a cup every 6hrs or so with no more cheese and a half slice of bread dipped in blood typo juice or gravy as a small treat. This she has 2x a day. So far the past 2 1/2 days she hasnt been sick again but will get her checked out by vet when next she comes onto island. Thanks for your help and concern, its appreciated. Regards Lori and Shiloh

I have a 21mth old Belgiun Shephard that I got from a rescue centre 3 weeks ago. Since then after slowly changing her food from Ekun to Bonny and introducing meat to her diet she has been off and on sick constantly. In particular 4 days ago eating a large amount of grass and vomiting it back up. Naturally a sick dog. Then she comes right bright as a button for a few days and back to being sick again, eating grass or not she vomits up not long after food. I have taken away the fatty meat and cooked it and she was not sick but was the next day after cooking it (chicken). It has been obvious she has not had meat before as she actually didnt know what to do with it. Bones she now eats but once again after a small bone, spewed it up again. Even watered down milk 1/4 cup with 2 cups water and 1 egg she spews up at times. This vomiting does not happen every day but after 3 weeks its become apparant that every few days or so she vomits. She does not guts her food down either and definitly not a big eater. I have her on 2 smallish portions a day and a lot of food is wasted. I have had to put the Bonny with gravy or tuna water or some sort of meat juice to get her to eat the bonny. She rarely eats any of it dried unless she has vomited the day before and really hungry. I do not re-feed her if she has vomited. She will of course eat up her vomit if left there. Of course she just loves cheese which she gets a slice of maybe once a day. Thats the thin packaged slices, could this be a problem to. Maybe an intestinal prob, maybe stomach worms of some type that cant be treated with usual products, HELP. She has of course been vaccinated, worm treated etc before I got her. Stools: Her stools appear normal the next day if she hasnt vomited the night before. No diaherrea just once the morning after she vomited up the milk and egg the night before but hadnt eaten a proper meal for 2 days. The 3rd day she ate her Bonny, no vomiting and fine again for another 2 or so days. Hmmmmm Any advice/suggestions would be of great help as I live on an Island and the vet attends once a week. Goes to loo on cue literally every morning and arvo without fail. Does not appear to drink much water but is not that active due to being indoors most of the time as I have yet to put up a fence. Also my BS comes from a tick free area and has been treated for ticks a day before she got here. Could this be a problem as her not ever having been treated for ticks before. She was an abused dog, very nervy, taking time to adjust and trust people. Shes highly sensitive also but now trusts me to a degree.