Recently one of my dogs seems to have developed intolerance to the Grizzly Salmon oil. He gets the runs. I thought maybe I might have a bad bottle, or it had gone rancid, so bought a new one, but he had a reaction to that today too.
Has anyone had dogs develop an inability to handle the oil?
My Rhodesian Ridgeback has in just a couple months and I was about to post similar to yours. I thought it was just too much, but it was a slow build up to his weight's dose and now he can't seem to tolerate any.
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How much are you giving?
Assuming it's the bottle directions, and assuming it's fresh oil (and please don't ever risk maybe rancid oil), I would probably go buy a bottle of deodorized oil (for people), even in caps because it's just an experiment, and see how that is.
I read somewhere else (I forget where) that someone had a dog who got the runs on the regular oil but not on deodorized molecularly-distilled oil.
I'd do pretty much whatever I needed to do to get the dog back on fish oil. This will tell you if the deodorized is a fix.
It took several weeks for him to tolerate the oil in the first place. They he was OK for a couple of months. He's had the runs on and off for the past month, that is a bad day or two, followed by several good days. I've been trying to determine what it the upsetting factor, so I go back to simple diet of just raw chicken until his gut settles down. He's been good for several days, so today I put a wee bit of salmon oil on his otherwise normal simple meal, and at noon he had the problem.
Both the "old" (about 5 months in the fridge) and new bottle, the oil smells the same, fresh and good to me, and I have a sensitive smeller.
Melissa Thom Webboard User Reg: 12-04-2007
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I've had better luck feeding oily fish than fish oil with a couple of my dogs, my dogs seem to accept it better and I've had less of a stomach reaction. We have smelt or food grade herring that I add to the raw meal. Downside is you can't measure content as easily but the upside is that herring and smelt are really really cheap.
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I've had great luck getting a box of frozen smelt and herring from the local Winco although any supermarket with a decent fish selection I would imagine would have the option of ordering a box for you. I think they're in 10 or 20 lb frozen bricks and are usually from US or Canadian waters. Very inexpensive and the dogs eat them head, guts, and all no problem. It also gave me the opportunity for a smelt fish fry which I always enjoy ^.^
I know they were cheap...years ago with ours and my moms SOs kids there were 8 of us and we had smelt at least once a week because it was so cheap. Wasn't keen on it then. But it is fond memories now. (course chicken wings were dirt cheap then too....then someone 'invented' buffalo wings)
Last week two of the local bigger name grocers didn't have any. Will have to ask around. The dogs all loved and did well on canned mackerel. Norby even tolerated it fine. go fig.
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