Well that is an issue on it's own. He eats Taste of the Wild Sierra (lamb), which is the only thing I've goud that doesn't give him diarrhea. It seems that even the slightest hint of chicken (even just chicken fat), upsets his stomach.
He is fine with many of the high quality canned foods as well, as long as there is no chicken in them. I am going to be doing a trial with raw organic chicken, to see if he is allergic to that, since I would like to fees him raw... ideally without having to exclude chicken.
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He has no raw at all, right? You want to ask the vet about a trial of an antacid at bedtime along with a very bland snack just to see if indeed this is bile vomiting (which is related to excess acid in an empty stomach)?
Or a blander bedtime snack? Maybe a small piece of poached non-oily white fish?
(I'm talking trials here - not a lifetime of poaching filet of sole at 9 o'clock every night.) If we had already done the fresh-chicken trial or if this was any other dog, I'd be saying that I'd try a piece of skinned poached white chicken (bland, not particularly acid-producing).
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Well, I just read in a manual that some dogs need a bedtime snack (small) and/or a very early morning one -- that is, that it requires something in the stomach in the wee hours in some dogs. I suppose you could keep 1/4 cup of kibble on the bed table and toss it in the crate at 3 a.m.
No, he hasn't had any raw at all. He doesn't vomit any other time, and it's only bile and foam that he will end up throwing up, after a big production. His nomal meal is 1 1/2 cups of kibble with a couple spoons of either yogurt, tripett, or evo or wellness canned food, and a bit of water. He gets that at 6am and 6pm. In between he gets about another 1 1/2 - 2 (TOTW only has 338 cals per cup) cups in training or in handfuls tossed into his crate.
He is 17 weeks. He does essentially get the equivalent of 3 meals per day. He gets a total of 4 1/2 - 5 cups of kibble. 3 of the cups are split into actual "dish" meals (with water and yogurt or canned). However, I do so much training with him, there is no way I could give him a 3rd "dish" meal in the middle of the day, and still have enough food to train with (or track with), plus toss into his crate each time I put him in at work.
In fact, he used to get all his food, constantly throughout the day, just from training, and tossed into his crate. I only started the "meals" because he seemed to be so ravenous all the time, I thought they might satiate him a bit. Plus, he is more toy motivated now, so I don't rely so heavily on food for training.
I will try moving his supper a bit later, though it will be hard on him, and giving a better snack right before I go to sleep.
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