Selectively sick on raw diet

[Codys ma]

I recently started Cody on a raw diet and my sister did the same. A few weeks ago, we used ground beef as our meat source for one meal. The two males did fine but the female, Bayli, vomited while she was eating. Well, last night we tried ground beef again and got the same results, the males did fine and Bayle vomited. She tried eating the chunks that came up and lost them again.

Now, we usually do chicken and rotate some organ meat, lamb, ground turkey, etc. and she has no problem with these, just the ground beef.

Obviously the solution is not to use ground beef again, but it seems very strange that this happened. Any thoughts on what may have caused it?

Kim

[frontierrots]

generally when first switching to raw it is best to start the dogs on digestive enzymes for a month or two first to reintroduce the good bacteria and enzymes. Then most experts suggest starting slow, with maybe chicken necks a couple times a week.

Your dog MAY also be sensitive to beef.

try going to http://www.b-naturals.com and email Lew herself with any questions you may have

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Diane
Frontier Rottweilers & Shiba Inu
www.frontierrots.com

[Lady B]

Kim: Lady-B always tosses her cookies with beef in any form. I gave up on it for her. She does well with any thing else. Baron does great with anything -- wonder if it is a biological gender based thing? Female humans have different nutritional requirements than males, so why shouldn't other species?

[Nancy Estes]

The only time I had a dog (Basset) do this it was a mouse that my Rottweiler had killed! The Basset was frantic to eat the mouse, the Rottie wouldn't let her have it; I finally gave it to her. She ate it & later threw it up. It disappeared again later that day & I don't know who finally ate the mouse! I've only had my Rotts vomit their food if: (1) they ate too fast; (2) tanked up on water after eating; (3) ate too much (got in the bag of dog food, etc.); or (4) started playing again too soon after eating. In almost all cases they *recycled* it and it stayed down... But dogs can vomit voluntarily so maybe she just hasn't convinced herself yet that this is something she really wants to eat & keep down .

Nancy

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von Dorow Rottweilers
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[Codys ma]

Bayli does fine with everything else, she really loves the chicken and does very well on everything else. She just had problems with the ground beef..so I guess we just won't give that to them anymore.

We've been slowly incorporating this diet over the past month, but I will look into getting some digestive enzymes to help them out a bit.

Thanks!