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General Board for Big Dogs with Big Paws / Re: Switching from Kibble to Orijen
« on: January 23, 2009, 08:10:30 am »
Thanks for the advice! Sadie was throwing up, not drinking water and wouldn't eat anything for 2 days. The morning of the 3rd day I took her to the vet. They looked her over and said she was suffering from severe dehydration and that she would have to be on fluids for 24 hours. They ran a bunch of tests and they came back with a bacterial infection. We asked what would cause it and they couldn't really say. When we mentioned she was on a raw diet, they figured that could be what caused it. She had been on a raw diet for over 2 years without any problems. The vet said that she doesn't promote raw diets because she has seen this type of infection before. We didn't know what to do and weren't 100% sure it was the food but we switched her anyways. It was funny though because they put her on an easily digestable food for 2 weeks until her system got working again. The brand was Medi-Cal and when I read the ingredients, the first item was corn, which I thought they couldn't digest. We are switching to Orijen because both of them are getting ear and eye infections again and Sadie has been vomitting about once a week. We felt that with Orijen they get the benefits of raw but maybe it won't be as "risky" as feeding the frozen pucks. We will see!