Hi Crystal, thanks for your kind input.
I cook for my dog. She has primarily chicken, rice and carrots in the morning, on her food and organic home raised raw beef with grated zucchini at night for dinner. Vegies at dinner can change or be added being Yams (cooked), peas, carrots, turnip, squash and loves to snack on centers from romaine lettuce.
Roxy free feeds on Royal Canin, Yorkie 28. Been wanting to switch so to avoid a couple fillers there and the chemical preservative in the "fish meal" that is an ingredient. When I try to get her on something else she will eat it for two maybe three days and then back to the R.C. I let her choose and she always chooses the R.C. over anything else.
I like the 28% protein factor too since I cook for her.
Sometimes she will have shrimp, ocean salmon or turkey. Sometimes marrow from bones. I also give her blue buffalo wet food mixed in with her cooked food or on it's own as a switch up.
Sometimes instead of rice I will give her rolled oats (both cooked of course).
Fact is her diet has been the same going on three years and is exactly the same when I am away from home, working and always staying at the same place and she eats the exact same things. Same chicken and beef sources and doesn't get sick then. It is just when we are at home.
We play tricks and things with her favorite home cooked cookies, made with brown rice flour before bedtime, when we are out of town too and she doesn't throw up in the mornings there at all.
I have been conscientiously trying to keep her diet and activity the same as when we are out of town so to try to pin point what is going on.
I agree that
1. There is some kind of outbreak in our area.
2. That she will likely need a full work up a.s.a.p.
No blood work or fecal ever done because Roxy has always been in awesome health and so not requiring in any depth testing.
Likely vet will order it if she feels necessary.
I will voice my concerns. I will call around the other vet offices to see if there are any reports.
If it were some weird outbreak and we don't All treat our dogs for a virus or a parasite or whatever ..
how will we ever combat it?
I do worm my dog once a year. Perhaps there is a specific parasite that needs zeroing in on?
Apparently dogs can contract parasites that can cause vomiting, simply from the grass in dog parks etc.
She only does it when we are at home, not when we are out of town.
We are here and there about 1/2 and 1/2.
No blood in stool, urine normal, no diarrhea. No worms in vomit. Vomit is yellowish in color, clear and sometimes frothy. Nothing more than a bile vomit and always first thing in the morning, on occasion. Not every morning.
What are your thoughts on environmental causes? Thinking possibly mold in the building at home since she is not throwing up when out of town and absolutely no change in diet at either place.
She does get a bit more centers from romaine and carrots when out of town because my Dad gives them too her pretty much everyday.
Thoughts? Please and Thank you. |