harleyboxer
Super Boxer
My dog has quite a few stomach issues and I'm wondering if anyone has had any similar experiences. When I got my dog at the pound he was 25lbs under weight and they told me to feed him a bland diet for awhile so I cooked him hamburger and rice for a few weeks. I tried to change him to regular dog food and he kept throwing it up and getting diarhea. I finally got sick of cooking (I don't even cook for myself!) so I put him on science diet sensitive stomach and he adjusted after a week or so. He put on a lot of wieght and had a nice shiny coat, but about once a week or so he would go off his food for a day or two. His stomach would gurgle so loud that I could hear it from the next room. I started working for a vet office a few months ago and we decided to put him on famatodine (doggy pepcid) and change his food. We started to put him on Eukanuba low residue with the acid pill every day and he was 100% better. Then (of course) he started to break out with severe acne on his chin. He also was itching all over and his anal glands were swelling. We decided to try an allergy food Response FP which is fish and potatoe. He still was eating fine, but the allergy got worse. We've confirmed that he is allergic to fish. I then tried several foods like California natural and Nutro Ultra and he will go off of his food and have diarhea on them. I put him back on the science diet sensitive stomach and then tried I/D which is pretty much the same thing as the sensitive stomach and he got worse about his fastings. All of this time he has been given canned I/D which has turkey instead of chicken and it does not bother him at all. Now we are trying D/D which is duck and rice and he started off okay, but now he has horrible diarhea.
My problem is that regular dog food is to rich for him. He is allergic to the low residue because it contains fish, and the sensitive stomach obviously doesn't agree with him either. So I need a food for sensitive stomachs that doesn't contain chicken or fish. The allergy foods are not made for sensitive stomachs and are too rich.
He is still on the fomatadine once a day and it seems to help, when he doesn't eat his stomach doesn't gurgle anymore.
Any ideas?
My problem is that regular dog food is to rich for him. He is allergic to the low residue because it contains fish, and the sensitive stomach obviously doesn't agree with him either. So I need a food for sensitive stomachs that doesn't contain chicken or fish. The allergy foods are not made for sensitive stomachs and are too rich.
He is still on the fomatadine once a day and it seems to help, when he doesn't eat his stomach doesn't gurgle anymore.
Any ideas?