My two year old male had horrible stomach issues and all the blood work was negative. He ended up having an alergy to the food we were feeding him. About 3 - 6 months after changing his food, he would start the episodes all over… Like his system would get use to the food and start rejecting it or something... For the past year now we have had him on California Natural's Salmon and Sweet Potato dry kibble and can food mixed with a 1/4 teaspoon of " Probotics" ( sold at the holistic store too) and have never had another episode. No bile throw up, no kennel messes and regular stools.
--- just saying, might be a food alergy ??

Hi All! Everyone was so helpful when D.C. was sick with his food alergies… I figured someone might also be helpful with Lexi's separation anxiety.
It seems to be getting worse! They have both been kennel trained since day one, and she will lay in her bed with her toys even when we are home and the kennel doors are open. She was kind of bad before when we went to work. She would eat bits of her blanket and it ended up looking like swiss cheese after a while.
Since I have quit my job about six months ago to stay home and run my business they are out of their kennels all day. When we go out for dinner or shopping or something, she now eats her bedding... I have sewn up her bed so many times, i finally took it away from her. Putting down only a small towel. Which she ate. Now she gets nothing but the plastic try in the bottom of the crate. I feel horrible as her brother next to her is on a nice comfy bed, but I'm so afraid she is going to get a blockage of this stuff, and those beds are not cheap!
Anyone out there with similar problems?? She's a very sensitive little girl, almost two years old. Any and all comments greatly appreciated !!
Thanks!!
Jennifer
PS, D.C. is doing absolutely fabulous!!

OMG those are great pics! LOL… too funny! Thanks for posting!

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Your post made me laugh DebraDownSouth.. DC sleeps like this all the time. I can't see how it's comfortable, but he'll stay that way for quite a while… Crazy dogs!

D.C. on his lounge chair…

Lexi girl

D.C. getting some sun

We are finally getting some nice weather, and the puppies are loving it!:D

I'm not sure if this picture thing has worked, but D.C. looks great and I can't thank all of you that helped us through this enough! Thanks everyone for your stories and fabulous input. Seems he has a food alergy and so we've put him on " California Natural" wet and dry. Salmon and Sweet Potato. With a 1/4 tsp of powdered probotics a day. Seems to have worked. NO issues, and he's gained weight and energy … Same ol' D.C. dog again!

Nicole, I'll certainly keep it in mind. Thanks so much for the feedback!

Good morning! NKJVCJS I'm not certain on what he checked for, the paperwork just said complete blood work with a $119.00 price tag next to it. I do know that a fecal float was done as well. - Buddy's Pal… Thank you for your post, When we first got DC, the breeder had him on Iams puppy.. We kept feeding him that and he got really sick after about 9 mos later, they said it was bacteria overgrowth. so we changed his food to nutro lamb/rice/ and oatmeal. seemed to do great, changed to the same brand only in adult after he was a year or so, then got our second B, we had to go back to puppy. now this past month he's dropping weight so fast.. so we changed his food again- this time from the holistic pet store. 12.00 for a 5lbs bag plus the supplement powder.. . he does seem better, but i like your idea of mixing in some beef or chicken. i would love to see him up to 22lbs, he was around 24-25 a couple of months ago and looked great. i keep telling my husband to stop complaining about the price of the food because the vet bills will be more ! and besides, we don't have a college fund to put aside for them, as these are our babies, so make sure they have the best while we have them.

Thanks for asking Nicole; He's getting better I think. The blood test results were all "normal" The vet said it was a food alergy. He had a bacteria overgrowth last march that landed him in the Vet ER, we changed his food and never had another problem until recently when he started dropping weight so fast. so we've put him on "california natural" herring and sweet pototo with some plant enzymes & probiotics powder. we'll see how this works for him… Thanks again for checking on him... through out it all, he's such a little sweetie...