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Date Posted: 19:32:29 10/16/07 Tue
Author: Louann McDonald
Subject: dogs sick from nutro natural choice

I have six dogs, 4 Maltese and 2 Lhasa Apsos. I have been feeding them Nutro natural choice chicken meal, rice and oatmeal formula. I recently opened a new bag of food and all six of my dogs fell ill. They were all vomiting the food they had eaten immediately, then later vomiting bile, and all had blood tinged diahrea, all six starting last week when I gave them the dog food. Two of them developed hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, blood tinged vomit as well as losing almost pure blood rather than slightly bloody diahrea. I fed the dogs this food for about a week before the symptoms got really bad; I thought maybe they had a virus, but the vet says that is unlikely. They were in the dog hospital Saturday, Sunday and yesterday on fluids and flagyl. Neither ate nor drank anything until I brought them home last night and hand fed them a little boiled chicken. They are better, but still had their iv's in today so I took them back to the vets for more iv medicine. They took the iv's out later today as they are not bleeding like they were. They are still having bloody diahrea, but nothing like they were. They are still sickly babies. My other four are also sickly, but I am giving them oral flagyl and fluids and hoping for the best. Both hospitalized dogs had elevated liver enzymes, but that may go with hemorragic gastroenteritis. I am very worried and hope they will get much better, but from reading the posts on this forum it looks like I'm definitely going to have to watch them carefully and pray for them. I have emailed Nutro tonight to ask them if they have had other complaints about this food. Looking at this forum, it is obvious they have, no matter how they respond. At this point, I am simply worried and hoping my dogs will survive and be healthy again. I really think the food has caused this, as none of the dogs has "gotten into" anything. I watch them carefully, keep everything clean, as well as keeping the yard clean so they won't pick up anything there. Also, I never let them in the yard but for a few minutes and I watch them carefully, because I consider them my kids. I so wish I had never fed them Nutro, as that looks like what must have made them ill. The best by date was Feb 07, 2009. How on earth can we warn other pet owners? Thank you,
Louann

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Re: dogs sick from nutro natural choice -- Cat breeder, 23:51:47 12/29/07 Sat