Weight Issues

[BS40liam 203]

Pups not gaining any weight what so ever! She feels like a bad of bones! There's always dried food down during the day and she gets fed chicken I'm the morning and gets food scraps on the evening but still ain't putti g on any weight, misses took her to the vets this afternoon just to be on the safe side and they checked her over and said she seems fine, also at home she seems fine in her self. Any suggestions on what I could do? Cheers

[robin hood 109]

what wormer have you used,add some suet to diet,

[AirgunGuy 362]

Tripe can be good for adding weight to a dog. It worked for me on a GSP bitch i had ;-)

[bird 10,014]

get Dontrol wormer into it 1st, 2nd get some 1lb lamb or chicken mince 1lb + meal into, dry meal wont put enough weight on it it needs . put a pic up .!

[satan and todd 125]

triperooo

[Dan McDonough 560]

^{If you've got them wormed well it's probly Coccidiosis. The birds carry it around and most folks overlook it. We use a couple of things to get rid of it. The first and likely the easiest is Albon. One time and it's done and the dogs put weight on very quickly. The one I use the most because it's cheaper is Sulfadimethoxide. I buy it in a gallon jug and put 60 cc in a five gallon bucket of water and that's all they get to drink for at least five days. Works every time and keeps the food bill down.}

 

^{Most folks keep woming the heck out of their dogs thinking they missed something and they have but it's not worms.}

 

^{Hope this helps and does the trick.}

[Guest Chancey]

coccidioses would show up on any pup or bird that isn't at its self

 

 

Edited January 25, 2013 by Chancey

[Guest Chancey]

leave food in your dog dishs an your asking for trouble I might be talking crap but I also believe birds can carry parvo from one yard to the next

[NETS 11]

^{If you've got them wormed well it's probly Coccidiosis. The birds carry it around and most folks overlook it. We use a couple of things to get rid of it. The first and likely the easiest is Albon. One time and it's done and the dogs put weight on very quickly. The one I use the most because it's cheaper is Sulfadimethoxide. I buy it in a gallon jug and put 60 cc in a five gallon bucket of water and that's all they get to drink for at least five days. Works every time and keeps the food bill down.}

 

^{Most folks keep woming the heck out of their dogs thinking they missed something and they have but it's not worms.}

 

^{Hope this helps and does the trick.}

 

A healthy dog can have coccidiosis and can not show any signs of decease i.e. a carrier but if a weaker dog comes into contact with the carrier or its waste it can pick up the decease and it can be bad and will need meds to sort it out.If a dog is at the stage where its losing lots of weight from coccidiosis it would be eating more and would have the shits and not be its self.If my dog had coccidiosis i would treat with sulphadimidine sodium 100mg of powder per kg of body-weight interval of 12-24 hours during 5days.bs40liam in your case you say your dog is its self etc just the weight loss has you concerned if its been well wormed and it hasn't got coccidiosis symptoms could be a some sort of cancer or diabetes's but sounds like your vet needs to do a lot of tests to find whats causing the weight loss.Hope you find out whats wrong and its not bad.

[BS40liam 203]

Thanks for all advice ill put a pin up in a min

[baw 4,360]

What age is it?

[BS40liam 203]

it's hard to tell because of her broken coat but to feel down by her pelvis you can feel there's no meat thee what so ever! I'm quite worried about it reli, and I use panacure wormer cheers

[BS40liam 203]

What age is it?

she's border line 11 months mate

[nothernlite 18,260]

you tried brown bread pasta ?

[Taz-n-Lily 62]

Nice little dog. Looks a bit timid?

 

Try knocking the dried food on the head and feeding a mix of raw and cooked meat with a bit of mixer. Tripe is good, breast of lamb raw is good, as is raw chicken (mine love chicken wings). The bones won't hurt her unless they're cooked. When you find what food suits her she'll start to put weight on over a week or so

 

Scraps are not good. It sounds to me as though it may be diet-related. Some dogs can be fussy eaters, especially bitches. Make sure her food is somewhere where she can eat it without being disturbed, and let her take her time.

 

Don't self-medicate. I'm not saying this for everyone, but in this case I advise a change of diet as above, initially.

If there is no improvement even when she is eating normally/well after a couple of weeks, take her back to the vet.

 

Feel free to pm me if you're stuck.

Edited January 25, 2013 by Taz-n-Lily