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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #15 on: July 20, 2005, 07:47:10 am »
Rocco has a bacterial infection on his skin and pancreatitis from licking himself.  He got two shots and is on antibiotics.  He was feeling a lot better by 11 last night.
Thank you guys for all your good thoughts and prayers.
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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #16 on: July 20, 2005, 08:12:43 am »
Pancreatits is VERY painful, and can also be a life threatening disease.

Dogs who have had an episode of pancreatitis can be more prone to develop it again in the future.

Sometimes it is diet related, mainly to too rich of a diet.

So glad to hear he's feeling better.

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« Reply #17 on: July 20, 2005, 10:14:20 am »
I'm so glad that Rocco's feeling better. Thanks for the update!
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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #18 on: July 20, 2005, 10:17:37 am »
The vet said it had to do with him licking himself so much.  Do you think that Science Diet is too rich for him.  He has never had food issues before!?
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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #19 on: July 20, 2005, 01:23:44 pm »
sorry this could be long...
I am so glad I read this!!!!! But as soon as you mentioned Science Diet my heart leapt greek4.  I had been feeding my 2 dogs nutro and they didn't seem to like the taste, so we went on a search for new food, in pet store we saw science diet and the people said that it was good, better that nutro, so we got it. Well.... I went by the guide line feed 3/4 to a 1/4 new food. I did some research on food and well science diet is not what it is cracked up to be, lots of fillers and animal by products in it. we took the food back, Harley has only been fed 1/2 cup of this food in total, and she was very bloated has very smelly gas adn well her poop was runny and gelly. Harley has never had this happen from a food switch, so it could be that science diet is too rich for him, but maybe not. I am not trying to bash science diet as I am sure that may dogs do very well on it, in Harley's case not so much. So we moved to Solid Gold(they finally have it here in Edmonton, I guess there was some border issues) and she is doing very well on it. 
I am no expert but just thought I would mention this to you.

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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #20 on: July 20, 2005, 01:25:22 pm »
I am so glad that Rocco is fine, ;D sorry I forgot to put that in my last post.

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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #21 on: July 20, 2005, 01:43:21 pm »
Glad Rocco is feeling better!  Science diet has corn as the number one ingrediant which is not good for dogs at all.   Just like people, dogs can not digest corn very well.  Just imagine if you had to eat corn every single day... your tummy wouldn't be too happy...  If I were you I would definitely try switching to a better quality food one with meat as the first ingrediant. You can find lots of information about this online.
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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #22 on: July 20, 2005, 01:56:55 pm »
There is an awesome link on this site, that someone had posted, that is what I used to choose the food I wanted to feed my dogs, it compares all different food and ingredients and gives info on what the ingreadiants are. I can't remember where it is anymore though.


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« Reply #23 on: July 20, 2005, 02:19:20 pm »
Is this it?  http://www.naturapet.com/display.php?d=comp-wiz   I posted this a little while ago.  It allows you to compare the ingrediants of all kinds of food.
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« Reply #24 on: July 20, 2005, 02:25:24 pm »
YES that's it!!  ;D That is such an awesome site!!! I just spent the last 15 mins trying to find it. Thanks  :) It was sooo helpful, especially because it tells you what the ingredients are and do. It was very interesting to see exactly what is in the different foods. Thanks again for that awesome link.

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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #25 on: July 20, 2005, 06:32:42 pm »
I am soooo glad to hear that Rocco is feeling better, even if he should be more prone to get it again you now know the signs and can catch it straight away, should it come back.

I feel Eagle Pack to my dogs and love if, I also love the link Rachel posted, it is so informative, it is kinda sad though to see how many dog foods that are really not at all what they want us to believe they are.

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Re: Rocco's Sick
« Reply #26 on: July 21, 2005, 09:25:13 am »
24 hours after his first dose of antibiotics and the big lug is back to normal.
He played hard last night with Maia to make up for lost time.
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« Reply #27 on: July 21, 2005, 09:31:43 am »
Ahhhhhh Rocco is back in the game, I am sure you feel so relieved that he is back to normal, and maia must be thrilled to have her big brother back to play with.

I am so happy to hear he is feeling okay

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« Reply #28 on: July 21, 2005, 01:17:40 pm »
That is good news!  Big Kiss Rocco my man!
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