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Date Posted: 01:55:51 05/21/08 Wed
Author: David G.
Subject: If you feed NUTRO your dog is going to be DEAD!

I had a six year old Newfoundland who was killed by NUTRO. He was healthy and vigorous until 5 days after I started feeding him NUTRO. He became extremely ill, I rushed him to an Emergency Critical Care Vet Hospital. After an hour or so a vet tech came out and told me that when he came in that my newfie had almost no blood pressure, and was hypoalbuminic. Albumin is a very basic protein that the liver makes. Basically his liver was shutting down. She said that they were trying to get him stablized. I asked if I could see him she let me look from the doorway. There were two medical people on the floor with him and he had more tubes and cables and displays around him than I could believe. She said she had to go back to help and that I should wait in the lobby. I waited all night until the next morning. In the morning the ECC Vetrinarian came out into the lobby and told me that he was in critical condition but they had him stabilized and he had rested a while and now was raising his head and looking around. The Vet said that I should go home and get some rest because they needed to keep him until they had a diagnosis. In the afternoon I got a call from the Vet hospital telling me that his vital signs were starting to look better and that visiting time was at 7pm. When I went to visit him they told me it would be just for a few minutes that he was in the ICU. He had a urinary catheter, two IV's, a heart monitor and a blood pressure monitor. When he saw me he tapped his tail but he didn't get up. They told me they will call tomorrow and I went home. When they called the next day they said he wasn't eating or drinking and that I should come at 7pm. This time he sat up for a minute or so and only had one IV, a urinary catheter and a heart monitor. Again they said they would call with an update tomorrrow. When they called they said they had removed the urinary catheter and that he had been taken outside to urinate but was very weak in the hind quarters and needed to be assisted to walk and that visits were at 7pm. I went to see him at 7pm. This time they had me wait in a room. When he came into the room he looked a little better but they were assisting his hind legs with a sling. They told me he had started drinking but was refusing food. I stayed with him a while then they came in the room and assisted him back into the ICU. The next day I got a call and they said he had started eating a bland diet and that he could go home if he continued to improve. I brought him home and read the discharge instructions. They said give the pills two times a day with food and feed normal. Thirty minutes after he ate the food (NUTRO) and pill he vomited everything back up. I notified the hospital. They thought it might be the medicine so they said to bring him in for daily injections of medicine instead. He was drinking lots and lots of water. He didn't seem to be getting better each day he seemed to be getting worse. On the sixth day out of the hospital he was wretching trying to vomit but nothing came out. I took him back to the hospital and they did abdominal ultrasound and didn't find anything. But his bloodwork showed a super high white count. They gave him an injection and said to bring him back the next day for another injection. When I took him home and put his bowl of food (NUTRO) in front of him he put his nose under the bowl and flipped the food all over the kitchen floor. So I swept it up and threw it away. The next day when I took him in for the injection a vet tech checked his heart with a stethoscope. The vet tech turned so pale I thought she was going to faint, her eyes got really big and she hurried out of the room. 30 seconds later she came rushing back with the director of the hospital. They said they needed to do cardiac ultrasound. They brought him back to the room an hour or so later and told me that a valve in his heart was getting damaged, and he was hypoalbuminic again, and that he would have to go back into the ICU. He was in the ICU for five more days and on the fifth day they told me that the valve was destroyed and his condition was fatal and there was nothing they could do. So I took him home and stayed with him in the yard under a tree and brought him water and he hobbled around, took a nap, hobbled a few feet and pee'd this went on for 26 hours then he sat up for a moment and let out a horrible scream and collapsed DEAD.

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