Daily Vomiting

[SoL]

That's exactly right. My vet showed me the x-ray and OMG the blockage was huge! So, he's been cleaned out, had an enema, injectible laxatives, I've given him 3 laxatives and I daren't let him through the door the poor bugger! Hopefully that will shift the rest and get things going again. He's back to the vets on Saturday to make sure we're on teh right track.

The vet's also said that his prostate is enlarged, benign but enlarged, which doesn't help bowel movement matters. He said that it will only get bigger if we don't do anything about it and the only real thing to do is to give him the chop. Of course we run the risk of cancer the longer we leave him undesexed. I think his stud career is over anyways so I'm thinking of getting him desexed and if it means he lives longer then there's no choice really is there?! I mean, he can be a pain in the arse, but he's MY pain in teh arse and I couldn't be without him. He's just turned 7 - are there any detrimental effects of having an older dog desexed?

Re bones, I usually give chicken frames, I thought they were pretty soft? I'm not into marrow bones as I'm paranoid they'll splinter but I do give briskets when I can find them. He loves sardines and I try and give them some as a treat (will have to make that more often!). I will admit to no veggies though, unless it's scraps from a plate! Raw or cooked?

[puggy_puggy]

Hope the laxatives work. Poor bugger wont know himself.

I shouldn't laugh but I was looking after a puggy with stomach cancer and as a result of the cancer he had diarrhoea, he was able to control it and ask to go outside when he needed to toilet. But when he actuall went it was like big gush, my father named him Karcher Butt after those high pressure hoses.

Lets hope your boy develops a Karcher Butt to flush out the blockage.

Ohhh that's not good to hear about his prostate but seriously go ahead with desexing him, bad for you if he is a great show doggy and produces great offspring but if it saves his life then who cares. If he is healthy otherwise he will be absolutley fine being desexed at 7. In rescue dogs that are much older are desexed, everyday, with no problems at all.

More raw veggies that have been put through the food processor. Alfalfa, spinach, carrot, apple, bannana, zuccini etc.

[becks]

Glad he is on the mend and lucky you have found out about the prostate as well.

don't envy you the yard clean up though!

[persephone]

Glad it has been found and helped along! Hope he reacts well, and with a slight diet change, and the removal of some hormones, has no more trouble!! .

poor boy must have been so uncomfortable these past days

[SoL]

I know, the poor kid He's running around today, which is always a good sign and there has been some cowpats down the back yard and since we don't have a cow, I can only think that the laxatives are working!

I shall grate up some raw carrot tonight and add that to his dinner, along with anything else I can find. Actually, I might start all of them on it now. I always thought that veggies don't get digested or are they added for roughage only?

The news about his prostate has made me think about his brother as well, who is also undesexed. Think I might get him checked out too.

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[puggy_puggy]

I shall grate up some raw carrot tonight and add that to his dinner, along with anything else I can find. Actually, I might start all of them on it now. I always thought that veggies don't get digested or are they added for roughage only?

Put it through the food processor, much easier. The theory is that whole veggies and fruit can't be digested by dogs because they can't literally chew them enough to break up the celloulose walls. If we do that part for them by mashing them up by putting them through the food processor or juicer or anything else that makes them into slop then they can get the nutrients out.

This is how I make my veggie & fruit slops. Lasts two months if I am only feeding my two puggies.

BARF SLOPS INGREDIENTS & METHOD

Things I always include:

- container of alfala spouts

- bunch of spinach (roots cut off)

- 1 to 2 green capsicums (stalk cut off & seeds out)

- 1 to 2 red caspsicums (stalk cut off & seeds removed)

- bag of carrots

- bunch of celary

- 4 zuccinis

- 3 to 4 oranges (peeled)

- 1 pumpkin (seeds removed)

- 2 to 4 apples (pips taken out)

- 2 to 4 bannanas (peeled)

- 8 to 10 eggs (whole including shell)

- flaxseed oil (approx 250mL)

- kelp (approx 100g)

What else you can put in:

- bunch of silverbeet

- turnip

- squash

- sweet potato

- 2 to 4 pears

- half to 1 pinapple

- brussel sprouts

- brocoli

- cauliflower

- bag of beans

- Apple Cider Vinegar

- Vitamin C

Chop up then process up in blender/food processor so that things turn to slops. Put each blender batch into a big bucket. Usually leave the eggs & flaxseed oil for things that don't blend very well like the pumpkin and carrots. Ingredients should fill up a bucket. Mix bucket with big ladel till all mixed through then put into take away containers & freeze untill needed.