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Lostandtired

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  • Your relationship to the individual who died
    Dog mum
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    Female
  • Location (city, state)
    England
  1. Thank you, I’m so sorry for your loss, it’s heartbreaking. Sending hugs back to you from one sad dog mum to another x
  2. To be fair to the vets, they sent me commercial food recommendations which must have gone into my junk and then I went down the raw route because everyone was raving about it. When I told the vet they just said it might not be balanced but I bought the best balanced complete meals I could find. I’m not fully convinced it was that because he thrived on it in between but the timing is tough to take.
  3. I lost my beautiful dog three weeks ago. He was 14, and reasonably perky, still going on walks and eating and full of love and fun. My other dog was found to have kidney problems a while ago so I looked at kidney diets for him and found the best, accredited, approved raw food I could find and chose their diet for kidney problems which also said it was suitable for seniors and low fat. I emailed the company and asked if both dogs could have it and they said it was great for them both. I spoke to breeders and dog mums and “experts” and I moved them both to this food. I also gave one different type of their meals to my non-kidney boy (who turned out to have worse kidneys!) So they were both great on the food, enjoyed it and nice poos and still active (I should say the surviving dog had a couple of hunger vomits because raw goes through quicker but I took advice and fed him later and that cleared up). Then 2 weeks later my boy just had awful tummy pain and diarrhoea, the vets said it was just a grumble and gave me omeprazole and probiotics and sent us home. He just got worse and had a pancreatitis positive screen and acute renal failure, eventually I had to have him put to sleep. On that same morning (2 weeks and 3 days after food change) my other dog had diarrhoea and was admitted for 5 days on fluids (home at nights) and painkillers with a pancreatitis positive screen. He’s ok now thank goodness. I just feel desperately upset and guilty that I meddled with the food. I also used new dog toothpaste on them, quite strong stuff and they would drink right after it, I was thinking it mustn’t be good for their tummies. I don’t know if it was the food, the toothpaste or a combination or if they just got an infection on their walks like they have before and he was too old and his undiagnosed poorly kidneys too ill to cope (he had been weeing a lot in the house but I just thought he was getting old). But in my mind it’s the food and I can’t bear it, my beautiful boy, he was wonderful 😞
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