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Originally Posted by Ellie May  I think a lot of this will end up being trial and error. Some owners would just choose to feed one food and very few types of safe treats without ever feeding anything considered risky. Others will want to use animal chews and such. That may or may not be wrong (I guess it depends on your opinion of it), but it is just probably more likely that these dogs will relapse.
I took the second approach with Ellie (at least once gave her something that wasn't on her list of things that were okay - without asking..). She had an episode and through trial and error I now know it's a no no. However, because her cases seem to be getting progressively worse, I am now at the point with her that I will stress over everything she eats. For "her", I know if she gets a Cheerio that falls or something, it will result in nothing more than some itchies. I know if a potato chip falls, I sure as heck better have the peroxide handy.
She is only lazy bc I'm lazy. There is no reason she can't take walks, play in the grass, play with her brother, play fetch, do trick training, etc. That said, I'm not going to let her stand there and continue to eat things out of the grass, etc. Attention diversion..
A couple weeks ago she got a piece of R's kibble. Still thankful that one didn't set her off! |
Makes sense. I am not really willing to risk a lot... I'd surely prefer to be safe than sorry. I am obviously not going to purposely give him a piece of cheese, or really much of anything that I know is not approved. I'm fine with giving him minimum amounts of everything and not really risking too much. As long as some lean chicken is okay, I think we will be fine in the treat department and he will be very happy with that. He doesn't need all sorts of different treats to be happy.
Since you have been thru this many times before, I definitely will take your advice. I'd obviously prefer not to have Jackson have to suffer through a bout of this worse than the one he just had. So I'll do anything in my power to not let it happen again. I'm just saying I know for a fact he will, at some point in time, eat something in the yard. Yes, I'll be out there with him, and yes I'll try to divert his attention, but I know Jackson and how quick he is to just *gulp* swallow something. He's always been a dog that has eaten EVERYTHING, lol. Obviously. Or we probably wouldn't be in this mess right now. Luckily, he's got a got a fairly good 'leave it' and 'drop it' but sometimes... he doesn't listen.