EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

Has anyone ever had this problem before?  This is a dog that would eat anything.  Lately he has lost his appetite and will not eat just plain Diamond Hi Pro.  I have tried to dress with everything under the sun.  Left overs, gravy, canned dog food ect.  If I did not keep changing it up he would just smell it an walk away.  He is usually a dog that will eat his food in less than 2 minutes.  I have finally got him to start eating pretty consistantly by dressing his feed with deer and hog trimming.  I have noticed the last couple of days that he has started to seem like he is getting tired of this as well.  I am out of ideas.  What do I do?  Some people have told me that he probably ate too fast.  What are yalls opinions?   I believed this at first but now his diet consist of almost half meat scraps and every once in a while he still throws it up or just refuses to eat. 

First thing comes to my mind is an intestinal blockage, sometimes if they eat something they cant pass, it may not totally block em up, but make em feel nauseated so they dont want to eat. u give em something they really like  say meat, they cant resist and eat, then they get sick and even that don't entice em any more. sometimes xrays will show it , but if he's like some of the bulldogs i've seen, they"ll eat the plastic squeakers out of toys and those dont show up on xray. Hope that aint wat ya got, but good luck

My suggestion get him to the vet before he stops eating and you loose him.

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Usually I do not cater to a finicky eater.  Instead I cut the feed back until he gets a good appetite.

In this case I have to agree with the above posts. Your dog might have blockage but for sure needs to go to the vet.

Took him to the vet.  Temperature was good.  Eyes were clear and bright.  Gums looked good.  The vet took blood to run tests on to see if he could see anything out of normal.  He is supposed to call back if he finds anything.  If nothing comes back in the blood work, he wants to run x-rays.  He said it could be a number of things but he is concerned about him as well.   I have cut him way back on feed and he seems to be doing a little better.  I am going to try to just slowly increase it back to his normal diet and see what happens.  Of coarse he will be going back to the vet to get looked at either way.  He is my main strike dog that I raised from a pup and there is no way I would let anything happen to him.

Good luck. I pray for dogs so I prayed for him.

i had a pit that did that and i forced some stool softener and fixed her right up, she must have just had some blockage

Hope everythings alright with your dog man, they get like family which makes it even harder when something is wrong.

i have a reg. bmc   and he throws up everytime he eats      he will eat a little   throw it up and then eat his throw up   the on and on till its all gone       i had hard time keeping weight on him   i have to change his food to a less protein food and more fat to gain wait        has this happened to any of yall??