I just found a salmon head in the grocery store that was marked down in price and I bought it for Roscoe. He ate it last night for dinner. Now I read about salmon poisoning, am I in trouble or do you have to feed alot to be worried. Thanks Ron
My uneducated understanding of the salmon risk is that "salmon poisoning" is actually caused by parasites, "flukes" that infect some salmon after they leave the ocean to migrate into warm, fresh water to spawn.
The flukes carry a bacteria that causes illness in the dog.
The amount of salmon is not the concern, it's the source of the salmon, and whether or not it was infected.
Connie? Anyone? Is this correct?
Do you have anyway of knowing if the salmon was wild caught or farm raised?
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I just found a salmon head in the grocery store that was marked down in price and I bought it for Roscoe. He ate it last night for dinner. Now I read about salmon poisoning, am I in trouble or do you have to feed alot to be worried. Thanks Ron
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Also, no, a large quantity is not at all necessary to cause trouble. Many cases are dogs who have been hanging around fishing boats and eating the heads and frames that are tossed aside.
BUT. Although it is often fatal (almost always, if untreated), it's fatal because it's not diagnosed and treated. You, OTOH, are aware.
If this is a salmon head from the Pacific Northwest, you would call the vet and explain that the dog ate raw salmon that might have had Nanophyetus salmincola, a fairly harmless parasite that can be infected itself with Neorickettsia helminthoeca, the troublemaker (for canids).
Diagnosis is by fecal sample (for the parasite's eggs) or, after a few days, a needle sample of a swollen lymph node.
Treatment is straightforward, considering the fatality rate without it, involving one or more of these: antibiotics, worming, and fluid support. It's an illness that responds very well to treatment.
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BTW, farmed fish fed so-called moist feed (raw fish) can become hosts, even if they are farmed where the normally-required intermediate host (a snail that lives only in the Pacific Northwest) is absent.
I have a million reasons for never buying farmed fish, but even if we are talking strictly about sources of raw fish for dogs, farmed fish would be off my list.
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If it's from the Pacific coast, Vancouver Island, etc., or if you do not know, then yes, I would call the vet and get advice.
I imagine that s/he will tell you when is the appropriate time to collect and take in a fecal, unless the locale can be determined and it's not the Pacific Northwest.
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