 Re: Habitual vomiting
[Re: Wendy Lefebvre ]
#362586 - 06/07/2012 10:37 AM |
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Get whatever size you can find...larger ones are always better in the long run.
Just make sure that it's natural plain yogurt and that the active cultures are NAMED on the container and it doesn't just say active cultures. I found that anything in the Supermarket wasn't up to par...so I started to purchase my yogurt from a health food store.
And nothing with sugars added. Just plain.
Tucker (75lbs...less than your guys im sure) gets about 1/4 cup in the morning before he eats anything...then I also give him a couple tablespoons when I get home from work. I found that his tendency to graze was always on our walks later in the day. So I threw in the bit extra just to be safe before we go for a walk.
Make sure you give it to them gradually. Some dogs don't take to milk products too well. So I started out with just a couple Tablespoons & gradually upped it till i reached the desired 1/4 cup. I did it over a 2 week period so I could see how his system did with the dairy first.
Just keep in mind that it didn't totally stop him from snatching a few blades now and then, but his grass eating definately lessened over a couple weeks. For all I know he could just like the taste of grass...lol
Ditto to all this. The package should have no sweeteners (neither sugar nor artificial sweeteners ... none at all) and should say "live" or "active" cultures. Many supermarket yogurts are nothing but a dessert, and some don't even contain live cultures, having been heat-treated after culturing. There should be a list of the cultures it contains, and that list should be longer than the rest of the ingredients (which should be "milk and active cultures" or "nonfat milk and active cultures"). It might have pectin. Anything else would probably make me put it back -- or at least stop and think about why it's there.
Good plain yogurt can be very cheap, too --- cheaper than the junk at eye-level in many supermarkets.
I buy quart containers.
In fact, I buy half gallons (with a good expiration date) if I happen to be at Costco (which does carry a good plain active-culture yogurt in the middle of all the sugary little dessert cups  ).
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Re: Habitual vomiting
[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#362590 - 06/07/2012 12:10 PM |
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Thanks Wendy and Connie
Getting the yoghurt from a health food outlet is no problem, Sam is working tomorrow, so I will get her to pick a large tub up, also, if it is unsweetened she won't be tempted to eat it!
Connie, I get what you mean about this not being entirely normal, what I did notice when I took big boy out with the Pointers today, he wasn't really interested in eating it in the usual quantity he would if Sugar was with him, surely it can't be a greed thing, you know, that 'I'm going to eat it so you can't' type thing?
She is feeling very sorry for herself tonight, much smaller tea, and because it is tipping down again, she isn't mooching about the garden cruising for 'pudding' like she has been, I will be keeping a much closer eye on her antics, last night was like a sea of vomit, not nice for her, not nice for Kaiser either, whose bed she chucked up on instead of her own!
I will also re-read the links you put up Connie,and save them to file.
Thanks again both.
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Re: Habitual vomiting
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#362595 - 06/07/2012 03:38 PM |
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I had a dog who did a lot of grass eating and vomiting, we finally determined it was a combo of GERD and ulcer making the dog eat the grass, he was put on Pepcid AC and within a week grass eating was totally eliminated. Amber has GERD, and would vomit, she now gets Pepcid as well.
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Re: Habitual vomiting
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#362598 - 06/07/2012 04:00 PM |
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DO NOT put a RAW FED dog on any antiacid! It conpromises their much needed acid to digest the raw food & bone.
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Re: Habitual vomiting
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#362602 - 06/07/2012 04:36 PM |
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DO NOT put a RAW FED dog on any antiacid!
Important point for raw feeders reading this thread.
Or to put it another way, if the dog needs antacids, stop feeding raw for that period. 
Dogs' extremely caustic stomach acid is one of their two major anti-food-pathogen tools. (The other is the quick trip from the mouth to the other end, giving food-borne pathogens limited opportunity to colonize.)
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Re: Habitual vomiting
[Re: tracey holden ]
#362618 - 06/08/2012 01:46 AM |
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Tracy, IF there happen to be any Middle eastern markets where you live, they'll probably have really good, natural yoghurts available for sale.
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 Re: Habitual vomiting
[Re: Elaine Haynes ]
#362620 - 06/08/2012 02:44 AM |
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Thanks Elaine - I know that some of the supermarkets hold some specialty foods now, but will check out the shops in Norwich too.
I went up the garden with her last night, and she went straight to her favourite chomping ground, so I chivvied her off, the same again this morning, although it wasn't for the want of trying to graze on her part, but no up chucking last night.
Could it be as simple as a bad habit she has gotten into?
Going to start on the yoghurt tonight, thanks again all. 
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Re: Habitual vomiting
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#362698 - 06/10/2012 12:31 PM |
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Re: Habitual vomiting
[Re: Connie Sutherland ]
#362731 - 06/11/2012 03:26 PM |
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All going great thanks, I am watching her like a hawk, stopping any interest in grass eating when she even looks at it, and no more up chucking, got hold of the yoghurt you and Wendy recommended, starting slowly with just a small amount twice a day, so it would seem as though she had got herself into an obsessive behaviour pattern, which I am hoping I have broken.
Thank you for asking after her, I appreciate it
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Re: Habitual vomiting
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#362763 - 06/12/2012 12:03 PM |
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Good info. I didn't connect antacid use with being unable to break down raw food.
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