My new dog has eaten grass, a rubber band and geranium leaves. She gets sick. What should I be doing?I am so confused about my 2 year-old toy poodle. I got her a month ago from the shelter which got her from a puppy mill along with all of the other dogs. First she had to be restitched after being spayed. After that incident, I thought I would next focus on getting her digestive tract settled. She has many other emotional and life skill issues, which also need to be addressed.
My dog vomits and has diarrhea every few days and is absolutely normal on the other days.
She ate a rubber band, which the post office person leaves on the ground by the mailboxes. She pooped that out. The dog trainer did not want her walking in front of me and she is too nervous to walk next to a large mammal like me, so she walks behind me. I have to watch her more closely and I bought her a kong figuring if she likes rubber, she will like her kong. She has mostly ignored it as she has never had a toy.
I grew geraniums this summer so there are dead leaves all over the place sort of like leaves that have fallen from a tree. There is no way that I can pick them all up, but I am keeping her out of my yard. Prior to this, she did eat some of them and threw up and had digestive upset for a day each time. I don't know if she threw up because she ate them or if she ate them in order to throw up.
I saw her eating grass and I told her to stop it and maybe I should not have done that because dogs sometimes eat grass because they have to vomit. She did vomit and now her stomach is upset and she isn't eating.
This also affects her backside. When she poops, she tends to bleed and expel mucous on the days that she eats greens.
When I went to get her stitches taken out, two of the poodles were back at the vets being treated for whip worm, even though the dogs were dewormed at the shelter. She has all of her shots.
She eats chicken with cornmeal and lamb with rice dog food along with rawhide chew sticks. She ate a rawhide chew stick for the first time yesterday. She ate the kong doggy treat the day before. I know she ate cheap dog food and wasn't fed the last six days at the puppy mill. She is also very nervous and that may be harming her digestion.
She was checked by the shelter vet in early November and she saw a second vet at the end of November in order to be restitched.
I was thinking that I should give her only one dog food flavor and brand for awhile and make sure she doesn't eat anything else to see if I can stabilize her.
After two years of being confined to a metal cage, she doesn't like being contained and she is starting to explore my house. With two kids, I'm afraid she might try to eat other objects, if they forget to shut their bedroom doors.
I'm thinking that I should super clean a few areas of the house and keep her confined to them. I should maybe try only the lamb and rice food first. She won't eat if her tummy is upset, so I was thinking of keeping her from eating grass and seeing if she will still eat food. Nothing comes up with the grass or geraniums except stomach slime or possibly mucous. Since the dewormer didn't eliminate the other dogs whipworms, I'm thinking I should either get her treated once again with a dewormer or have her stool sample rechecked. Any other ideas?
Posted by Sarah J
I would take all these questions to your vet. It could be because she came from a puppy mill. If in doubt, take her to the vet! My cat was losing weight once, didn't think anything of it, and he died because he had an enlarged heard muscle, he had a blood clot. :( Good luck and happy holidays!!
Posted by rachel90d
i think u should also ask your vet all this. i would.
Posted by Belly B
Try premium edge pet food if you can find it and if you can afford it. It doesn't use any byproducts or grain. If you can't afford that then you should try a raw diet. Even some petco's and petsmart's sell raw diets for dogs now. Science Diet, Nutro Ultra, Canidae, and Royal Canin are also very good. Also, your geraniums are poisonous to dogs. Many of the plants that are common are poisonous to dogs. My parents have had to rip a bunch of plants out of their backyard to prevent their dogs eating it.
You can also buy "Pet Grass" from most pet stores and keep it inside. Pets need to eat grass in order to regulate their systems sometimes, its roughage for them. However, it might be weeds or the pesticides that are used or simply the type of grass that she had eaten.
As far as the behavioral stuff goes you just have to wait it out. She'll become confident with you if you are confident, calm, and patient. Dogs are more reactive to your emotions and actions. You should keep her in just a few rooms at first. You should probably start her out in your own room to acclimate her to your presence [smell, voice, etc] and then slowly expand it through the rest of the house.
You should take her to get a checkup. But if the vet recommends "Professionals" pet food you should avoid it and ask what else can be recommended because I have found that it adds weight to all of the pets I have known to be on it even though they are on strict portion control.
Below is a source from the Humane Society of common poisonous plants.
Posted by Anirbas
Wow, talk to your vet. I also suggest sticking with one dog food. Don't let her eat the rawhide stuff. And possibly keep the Kong treats from her, just until you know what's going on with her.
I think you're just going to have to keep a really close eye on her. But, I would definitely get her to a doctor ASAP.
Cheap dog food, doesn't always equal bad dog food, any good vet will tell you that. You just have to check ingredients the same as you'd do for food your kids are eating.
Kudos to you for taking in this little baby with all her issues from being in a puppy mill. Good luck to you and her both, I hope it works out for the best.
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