I just went through this with my dog. As per advice got him off the canned food and have been giving him boneless skinless chicken breast coated in Slippery Elm Bark to soothe the GI. His symptoms sound like yours. Our vet bills are probally similiar. I am very gradually adding bone. Been told patience is key and to move very slowly. I saw the xrays from mine and there was nothing there blocking either. Mine was only on raw for 6 days though.

Michelle, what kind of diagnosis did you get from your vet? Do you think that large amounts of bone did that to your dog? I am just curious because everything was going so well with Griffin, until a few days ago.

Funny thing is he didn't know, and the whole gas, pain, vomitting and diaheah thing was going on. The 1st xrays showed gas no blockage, then he had cannon butt, and then he was fine. 2nd xrays showed gas was gone and no blockage. If you're not on the yahoo rewfeeding chat list you should get on it. I was given a link and not sure how to link it but I'm sure someone else can. People answer questions all day there about this specific question. I was actually advised to join when I first posted on this site about a desire to rawfeed. Believe it or not all dogs are different with the amount of bone they can tolerate. My other two are doing very well and are eating beef already. I began with backs as your supposed to start with more bone as to avoid cannon butt. But I fed too much instead of breaking it into 2x a day. I bought slippery elm bark in bulk and am giving him about 2-5 % bone right now. I probally won't be giving him more until next week. I do think it was the bone, or I've also heard of kibble block since it occured so early on, maybe a combo of both? His poop was really white so I should have backed off the bone, but at that point I didn't know any better. My vet isn't real raw savy so he didn't have a clue.

My neighbor had sparayed weed killer at him so at first I was sure that was his problem. I forgot, the first xray didn't show food, but obviously it was there somewhere. I think that was because I was feeding too much along with too much bone it probally caused problems. I also learned the chicken should have no more than 80mg of sodium per serving. I'd been getting mine at miejers and on the wrapper it said no artificial additives but when I looked at the nutritional content it said 180mg sodium. I soak it in water overnight. Also in the vet's defense sometimes they just don't know, just like Dr.'s. Mine dog is doing well hope yours is feeling better.

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on the wrapper it said no artificial additives but when I looked at the nutritional content it said 180mg sodium.

Remember that salt is NOT an "artificial" additive. Salt is natural, not artificial. Just because the package says no "artifical" additives does not mean they didn't add things to it.

 Quote: Michelle Pociask

... I began with backs as your supposed to start with more bone as to avoid cannon butt. But I fed too much instead of breaking it into 2x a day. ...

Large meals of the new food when switching (any switch, including to raw) are a bad idea.

I know this thread is not about this, but it's like an epidemic. Small frequent meals while you check the poop is something we say here, over and over. Here is a place to say it again.

Almost nothing is going to cause a big GI problem (where there wasn't one) if you don't give a lot of it at once. And almost anything will be an easy switch if it's done in small meals (much smaller than you intend to feed eventually).