Oh crud I hope it's not her food! I realize that would actually be a good thing and there are much worse things but this dog is so amazingly picky!!! When I say she doesn't eat treats I mean that since I got her in April she has maybe eaten some sort of a treat less than a half a dozen times. She ate a tiny bit of a cracker she found one time at my Mother-in-laws, I have a little 80g trial box of CaniSource, a new Canadian natural food that is 70% beef and freeze dried, that Lu has maybe had 3 pieces of and as I am writing this I just came to discover dun dun dun. . . (que menacing music) the day before Lu had the mucousy poop and little bit of blood my husband now remembers Lu had a tiny bit of roast beef! Seriously a tiny piece of roast beef? If that is what did the mucousy poop, and I won't know for certain unless it happens again sometime, that is amazing since she didn't have any issues when we first got her and she switched foods without taking her time.
If that is what caused the bowel issues that still leaves questions about the gagging and occasional bile vomit, so I will still be watching to see if I can identify a causal issue for that.
As far as the "premium" food thing goes, I tend to agree that some are not all they cracked up to be. We had a Giant Schnauzer that had crazy clear the room kind of gas and we tried every dog food we could think of. Made sure the foods didn't have corn and all the common things that can cause issues etc. The food that worked the best for him was the Kirkland Lamb and Rice Adult. Not a food that some high end food supporters would be thrilled with but that's what worked and we weren't going to argue with sucess.
We have two outdoor farm cats. Apparently the average life span for outdoor farm cats is about 3-4 years, these cats are currently 13 years old and they eat Kirkland dry cat food.
With regard to "premuim" dog foods I'm not entirely sold on their perfectness by any means. Some are far too hot for any dog we have owened. I do wish there was more diffinitive information as to what are the right porportions etc. of protien etc. for different dogs. I wish there were more certain answers to what is best. I have read that health issues can result if there isn't enough protien and health issues can result if there is too much. . . I wish people could get it figured out better so that one knew what actually is optimal for dogs like Lu or for dogs like my Grey Hound/ Scottish Deerhound etc. Lots of differing theories but very little cold hard proof.
If it turns out that the Acana adult we have been feeding is causing Lu issues then I guess it will be back to the drawing board and we'll look at feeding something else.
Thanks so much for sharing your experiences. It was good to hear that some people have had similar issues that turned out to be non-life threatening. |