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My young dog, nearly 2, became quite poorly in January. Lost weight, all the vigour went out of him. Vet initially diagnosed pneumonia & put him straight on a drip & kept him in 24 hours. A 2 week antibiotic course saw him bounce back pretty quick but he relapsed afterwards with similar symptoms. A few weeks on steroids put him back on his feet but he is not the dog he was. He is putting on weight but painfully slowly. He still looks dreadfully thin.

I've upped his food & put a little cooking oil with it as directed by the vet. I know when I've overfed him because he gets the squirts.

Has anyone have some good old fashioned remedies for fattening up a recuperating, skinny dog?

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January my lab springers looked very thin (count their ribs) due to work not illness & an old boy said feed em max Protein food along with chopped breast of lamb. But the end Jan they had started to fill out & now there back to perfect proportions. Worked for me.

 

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I can only speak about Lurchers, and particularly my current one. She loses weight and condition when worked hard, and I've found if I increase the amount of raw meat I feed it puts the weight back on. Fatty meat like lamb seems to work best. I've even mixed beef dripping in with her food to increase fat content.

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Have you wormed the dog as this can cause this sort of thing? Picking up rabbits can cause tapeworm because the rabbit flea is a host to tape worm and the dog can ingest them when retrieving rabbit. My dogs have had this weight loss and gain problem in the past and a good worming can help a lot. Symptoms were getting thin, bad breath (sort of gassy smell) coat loosing condition and being hungry all of the time. This was after they had been wormed as normal. Now I worm and re-worm about ten days later. This kills any worms in the gut and the kills any that come out of the system to re infest the dog. This is only my experience and your dog may have something different.

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Hi, Fortune. That's what I initially thought was wrong & wormed him but he got progressively worse. The vet is unsure what exactly is/was wrong with him. x rays showed most likely pneumonia but later believed it could be a tick born virus. The next step if he doesn't improve is blood tests. Up to date with his jabs as well. No harm in worming again though.

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Call CSJ direct and ask to speak to their nutritionist.

 

My dog put weight on after he had the snip, they sent me a sample bag of another food with lower fat and protein content and he's looking good again.

 

My guess is you'll need the opposite of what I did.

I wouldn't say its a good idea to feed him more in quantity, a change in diet would be my take on it but I'm not an expert.

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firstly how much was he eating before he took bad and how much is he eating now ?

 

if I want to add a bit of weight to my springer I basically up his feed slightly and add half a tin of meat to his dry feed , certainly works for him, but main thing is ,,is just keep an eye on his feed and up the content if needed,

 

hope he gets better soon mate,

 

here,s a pick of my fella after a day out

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My dogs are raw fed all the time, but raw chicken wings works for all dogs in all circs, in my experience. They're like a magic fattener.

 

All dogs love them, and gain weight on them remarkably quickly. Add an extra meal of, say, 3 chicken wings and you'll see a difference in a week.

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Chicken bones are a NO NO as the splinter and get stuck in the back of their throuts we even when cooked leg lamb bone is the same.

No, that's COOKED chicken bones, which are indeed dangerous for that reason. Raw bones are soft and not only not dangerous (though should still be fed supervised), but an essential part of a dog's diet. Raw fed dogs should have approx 20% bone in their diet.

 

It's also good for their teeth, and good mental stimulation when feeding bigger bones.

 

My dogs have some kind of chicken piece or carcass containing bone as part of their diet most days.

 

I am careful with wings though, because it puts fat on them so quickly.

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We ad-lib feed ours. They have a drop hopper and they help themselves. Works well if you haven't got a Labrador. Keeps our slinky Springer and Setter's weight up.

We use Skinners duck and rice and give cod liver oil twice a week as well as denta chewie sticks. Skinners working 23 works well too as that is a bit higher food value.

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I'm a big fan of chicken wings, and I can buy a 1kg. pack in Tesco for just over £2.00. It certainly keeps weight on a dog and cleans their teeth. I would also take hope from the fact that the dog, albeit slowly, is recovering and putting on weight.

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Well bad news I'm afraid. Alfie died on Thursday. I'm absolutely gutted. He was supposed to go in for full blood tests that day. Vet seems to think his heart gave out. Without a post mortem I'll never know but that isn't going to bring him back. Whatever he had been suffering from, no medication had any lasting effect. I'm beating myself up here thinking of what else I could have done. Many trips to the vets & hundreds & hundreds of pounds tells me not a lot but I still have a nagging doubt.

Many thanks to all for their helpful suggestions just the same.

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