Wow. My dog has been eating Pedigree soft food mixed with Iams Lamb & Rice dry food since the recall—he used to eat the Iams wet food with the Iams dry food. Anyway, he developed severe bloody diarrhea and vomiting on Tuesday night and has been on intravenous fluids, antibiotics, Pepcid and another medication since that time. Vet says he had hemorragic gastro enteritis. He’s better now, but for a time on Wednesday, he was so lethargic, we didn’t think he was going to make it. He’s an 8-year-old black Lab. He refused to even look at food—I was trying to give him his medicine orally with some cheese—and anybody who has a Lab knows that when a Lab isn’t interested in food, you know he’s got to be seriously ill. Anyway, he is getting the IV port taken out today and should be home for good this afternoon. This whole pet food recall has me wondering if his food could have triggered the HGE.
Just to be on the safe side, I wouldn’t feed him whatever he was eating before he got sick.
These days when a healthy dog suddenly gets extremely ill, we have to assume it’s the food.
I had to buy some Pedigree wet food recently because I was visiting my folks and didn’t bring enough food with me...One meal of pedigree wet and my dog had bloody diarrhea for two days and I had a $300 vet bill. It was probably my own fault for suddenly switching the food for just one meal but I’d be careful with that brand of food!