Furkid Has Been Sick

[kirsty79]

Hey everyone,

Fred the basset decided to decorate our living room carpet with his entire breakfast today

I think he got a little too excited around food time - he seems fine bar that.

Question is - when your boofer has been sick like this, do you feed them their evening meal as normal? Do you starve for 24 hours? Do you reintroduce food gently using bland foods such as baked chicken and rice?

My vet back in the UK used to suggest missing the next meal or perhaps feeding them some scrambled egg.

Any first hand advice would be greatly appreciated

[W Sibs]

If Charlie has an upset stomach, I usually let him miss a meal. He wouldn't want to eat if he has an upset stomach anyway. Then, I will make him boil chicken and rice.

I hope Fred gets better soon

[~Anne~]

Depending on *why* they vomitted, I feed mine as normal. Most often it is because they have eaten too quickly or ran around to quickly after eating. In fact, most often, I allow them to eat it again, as awful as that sounds. Saves on cleaning though

[Loving my Oldies]

Depending on *why* they vomitted, I feed mine as normal. Most often it is because they have eaten too quickly or ran around to quickly after eating. In fact, most often, I allow them to eat it again, as awful as that sounds. Saves on cleaning though

Yep, me too. And if the dog who threw up doesn't eat it, one of the others probably will.

[Marion 01]

If any of mine sick up their meal, I wait until I see if they are going to eat it again, and if not it gets cleaned up and they don't get another feed until the next day. Most times it is caused by eating too fast, or wind caught up, but if the vomiting continues and the dog doesn't look well, that is a different story.

Marion01

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[kirsty79]

I thought you guys were joking firstly about seeing if they will eat it! But, adding to their other questionable habits I suppose its pretty normal for them! Liking the idea of saving on cleaning up

Fred definitely isn't ill as in something serious. He felt sorry for himself for about 5 minutes and then was off out in the garden with one of my socks! He had got too excited before food and thats why he brought it up.

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

[Loving my Oldies]

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

Depends what you put in it, I think. Nothing savoury or spicy.

I go with the boiled chicken and rice if they have been off colour, but nothing really serious.

I used to have a little dog who would be racing around, he'd stop for a second, throw up and off he'd go again, totally unconcerned . Just one of those things.

Maybe Fred was trying to replace Pro Hart with his carpet decorating.

[Abigail]

I thought you guys were joking firstly about seeing if they will eat it! But, adding to their other questionable habits I suppose its pretty normal for them! Liking the idea of saving on cleaning up

Fred definitely isn't ill as in something serious. He felt sorry for himself for about 5 minutes and then was off out in the garden with one of my socks! He had got too excited before food and thats why he brought it up.

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

Eggs are great for dogs and especially scrambled eggs. What you must never do is feed raw eggs as the white of an egg contains an enzyme called avidin; this decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Cooked eggs are great.

[SeeGee]

I thought you guys were joking firstly about seeing if they will eat it! But, adding to their other questionable habits I suppose its pretty normal for them! Liking the idea of saving on cleaning up

Fred definitely isn't ill as in something serious. He felt sorry for himself for about 5 minutes and then was off out in the garden with one of my socks! He had got too excited before food and thats why he brought it up.

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

Eggs are great for dogs and especially scrambled eggs. What you must never do is feed raw eggs as the white of an egg contains an enzyme called avidin; this decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Cooked eggs are great.

I'd be questioning the source of this - many RAW feeders will say they feed raw egg, with shell on a regular basis.

[Abigail]

I thought you guys were joking firstly about seeing if they will eat it! But, adding to their other questionable habits I suppose its pretty normal for them! Liking the idea of saving on cleaning up

Fred definitely isn't ill as in something serious. He felt sorry for himself for about 5 minutes and then was off out in the garden with one of my socks! He had got too excited before food and thats why he brought it up.

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

Eggs are great for dogs and especially scrambled eggs. What you must never do is feed raw eggs as the white of an egg contains an enzyme called avidin; this decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Cooked eggs are great.

I'd be questioning the source of this - many RAW feeders will say they feed raw egg, with shell on a regular basis.

To my knowledge, some RAW feeders (and I personally believe in the RAW way of life for dogs) may choose to give their dog a raw egg once or twice a week and no more. Why give an animal something that binds BIOTIN and makes it inaccessible? this can only result in a dog with a scruffy coat. Once a week will not prove to be of detriment but any more than that would be foolish unless the dog is supplied an abundance of biotin to make up for it and that would defeat the purpose of giving a dog a raw egg ?? Symptoms of biotin deficiency include dermatitis, a dry scruffy coat, etc etc. It isn't hard work to boil up some eggs, is there? :cool:

[~Anne~]

Yes, I've read somewhere before that too many raw eggs can be an issue. I think you'll find jacquilee81 that Abigail is correct.

Edited to add: Googling gives various reasons why though, and some do not make sense.

Edited May 4, 2010 by ~Anne~

[Rebanne]

Eggs are great for dogs and especially scrambled eggs. What you must never do is feed raw eggs as the white of an egg contains an enzyme called avidin; this decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Cooked eggs are great.

it is perfectly alright to feed raw eggs as long as the whole egg is fed. Yolk are full of biotin thus negating the egg white.

[jensgreys]

Eggs are great for dogs and especially scrambled eggs. What you must never do is feed raw eggs as the white of an egg contains an enzyme called avidin; this decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Cooked eggs are great.

it is perfectly alright to feed raw eggs as long as the whole egg is fed. Yolk are full of biotin thus negating the egg white.

I'm confused over this egg feeding - Everyone has always had different opinions on which part of the egg should be fed to dogs and which part shouldn't. It wasn't until I started feeding one of my old girls Satin Balls to try and put some weight on her and the recipe GAP Vic foster carers are given to fatten up Greyhounds only has yokes in it but when I looked up other recipe's some have just yokes, some have just whites and others have the whole raw egg. I have been throwing the whites away but I might try putting the whole egg in.

[mrs tornsocks]

I thought you guys were joking firstly about seeing if they will eat it! But, adding to their other questionable habits I suppose its pretty normal for them! Liking the idea of saving on cleaning up

Fred definitely isn't ill as in something serious. He felt sorry for himself for about 5 minutes and then was off out in the garden with one of my socks! He had got too excited before food and thats why he brought it up.

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

What a coincidence, I just hopped on here because Archie just had a little vommy about 30 mins ago, and he is now totally normal. It looked like the mouthful of food he managed to gobble at Petbarn on the way out (they have a water and feed bowl at the front) . He's a lab so would probably eat whatever I put in front of him now, but wondering if I should just leave his dinner for tonight.

Edited May 4, 2010 by mrs tornsocks

[SeeGee]

I thought you guys were joking firstly about seeing if they will eat it! But, adding to their other questionable habits I suppose its pretty normal for them! Liking the idea of saving on cleaning up

Fred definitely isn't ill as in something serious. He felt sorry for himself for about 5 minutes and then was off out in the garden with one of my socks! He had got too excited before food and thats why he brought it up.

Does anyone have any opinions on the scrambled egg? I wasn't sure if egg is good or bad for them - but he loves my scrambled egg and it seems to settle his stomach.

Eggs are great for dogs and especially scrambled eggs. What you must never do is feed raw eggs as the white of an egg contains an enzyme called avidin; this decreases the absorption of biotin (a B vitamin). Cooked eggs are great.

I'd be questioning the source of this - many RAW feeders will say they feed raw egg, with shell on a regular basis.

To my knowledge, some RAW feeders (and I personally believe in the RAW way of life for dogs) may choose to give their dog a raw egg once or twice a week and no more. Why give an animal something that binds BIOTIN and makes it inaccessible? this can only result in a dog with a scruffy coat. Once a week will not prove to be of detriment but any more than that would be foolish unless the dog is supplied an abundance of biotin to make up for it and that would defeat the purpose of giving a dog a raw egg ?? Symptoms of biotin deficiency include dermatitis, a dry scruffy coat, etc etc. It isn't hard work to boil up some eggs, is there?

Im learning - always open to new knowledge - thanks all