Dogs Go Walkin' Petsitting

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***Dallas is continuing to improve and should make a full recovery. Thank you to everyone who has shared and kept us in their thoughts.*** There are hundreds, ...possibly getting into the thousands of cases like Dallas. I can’t go through all the comments If your pet got sick please report it to the FDA at https://www.fda.gov//SafetyHe/ReportaProblem/ucm182403.htm and on www.consumeraffairs.com and contact Blue Buffalo for a complaint form. Vets diagnosis is hemorrhagic gastritis (HGE) same as so many others. It is a severe reaction to one of the ingredients (unknown which) in this product. I’ve received hundreds of messages from people who have endured the exact same thing (especially since November/December) from various Blue Buffalo products I’ve added a few screenshots of other people’s stories with permission****I can’t add them all there are so many OP--->Don’t buy this shit. I grabbed these at Pets Mart on Saturday thinking Blue Buffalo $40 dental bones would be good stuff (heathy, holistic, wheat free, no chemical dye) for a bit of tartar buildup. My dog Dallas had one yesterday evening (we supervised him and he chewed it up). Sometime overnight he started throwing up blood ( total was 14-18 times before the vet got it under control with meds). I initially wrote it off to a bit of gastro upset and the red in his vomit to the dehydrated beets in it. But he wouldn’t eat chicken and rice and couldn’t even keep water down. Then he started drooling and dragging his feet and then couldn’t even stand. Needless to say we rushed him to the vet. When I looked up this brand I was shocked to find similar experiences posted online, especially in the last few weeks. He tested negative for pancreatitis. X-ray showed no obstruction (which we were fairly positive of even beforehand seeing as we watched him eat it) but it showed that his stomach is super irritated and pancreas was a bit off too. Bloodwork is all wonky cause his RBC is so high from dehydration. He’s staying overnight at the vet on IV fluids. Endoscopy showed a lot of damage in his stomach, too much for surgery. We will know more tomorrow. This has been a nightmare feels so wrong being at home without my dog and I’m beating myself up for not doing my research first like I usually do I’m sharing because; 1. This guy has an iron stomach and usually nothing gets to him. 5 yo and NEVER had any previous health issues or food allergies 2. He ate ONE and it was supervised, he broke it down and consumed it properly 3. If you google this brand there are eerily similar complaints especially in the last few weeks. Diagnoses I keep seeing are pancreatitis and HGE. If it saves even one person the heartache we are enduring right now then it’s worth it. A higher price doesn’t mean better quality or safe! ETA: If you can’t share my post you might have to click the original post. It is shareable on my wall but some page settings have sharing turned off.

So we covered petting and lifting your dog. Now another perspective. As an experiment, University of Florida researchers worked with 3 groups of dogs - shelter... dogs, family dogs tested with strangers, and family dogs tested with their owners. Each dog was brought into a room on leash to meet two assistants sitting in chairs. For the first two groups of dogs, both assistants were strangers, but for the third group, one assistant was a stranger and the other was the dog's owner. One of the two assistants greeted the dog with praise, while the other assistant's greeting involved petting. The dog was then taken to a point in the room an equal distance from both assistants, the leash was removed, and the dog's voluntary interaction with each assistant was measured in 10 minute sessions. During each session, the assistants offered either praise only, or petting only for 5 minutes. Then they switched roles for the remaining 5 minutes. The dogs were measured according to the physical closeness and amount of time spent with each assistant. The results of the experiment were crystal clear, every single dog preferred petting to verbal praise. Not only did the dogs spend more time with the person doing the petting, they do so even when it was their owner doing the praising, and a stranger doing the petting. And when the assistants switched places halfway through the session, the dogs invariably stayed with the petting person.

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