Heidi`s bloat when she was sick

Hi...will post a pic of Heidi`s bloat when she was sick....
Everybody MUST take their dogs to the vet if you see the stomack get bigger and bigger...
A twisten bloat means a rush with the time and within minutes the dog can die if it dosen`t get help in time.. Heidi almost died twise at the vet..and If I had come a minute later she would be dead now...

Symptoms: restless, won`t eat or drink, feber, tries to burp, or wanna trough up without coming up, and of course the swelling stomack

Thanks Evy, for posting this, sharing your experience with us, you may of saved one of our dogs llife :love:

thankyou for posting this evy ....information like this is valuable

I lost a dog with bloat a few years ago. Had the vet spotted it sooner he might well still be here. I will know what to look out for in future

awww thanks fot this evy x

Thanks for this Evy

A few weeks ago i talked to our local Vet about bloat, because i wanted
to know the signs what to avoid and what to do. The vet told me there
was not much to do about it, some dogs got it either way. I asked me
how many of the dogs with bloat survived at their office last year, he
said one.. and he wouldn't tell me how many died.
But the reason they died was because they came in to late, if i call the vet here it
will take them at least one hour before their at the office.
He told me if Lexus got it i could puncture his stomach to get the gas out,
while waiting for the vet to arrive.. it would give him a better chance
to survive..

Our vets are educated on cows and horses, so they don't
know enough about dogs IMO, it's the reason why i don't use them unless
i have to.
The vets there just hates me, because i always ask questions they
can't answer. and the one i blame for Keiko's death, isn't even coming
close to me or Lexus.
If she's on call and something happens to
Lexus, i got the private number for the vet from Netherland and he'll
come in if needed.

To find a good Norwegian site about bloat is
really hard, and everyone says different things. I've been told to soak
Lexus kibble, feed him twice a day, not to raise his food bowl, not to
walk him 2 hours before and 2 hours after a meal. not to give him
rawhide or pig ears and make sure he doesn't eat to fast ( this is not
a problem, i think he's the slowest eating dog in the world) and not to
give him bones at all ( I'm still giving him raw bones tho, because i
read somewhere that those should be safe.)

The vet said that
since i knew so much about bloat, and knew what to look for, and the
vets office is just over the road from our house, Lexus chances are
much better than the other dogs they get in. the vet we'll be calling
lives just 10 minutes from his office

when i got home from the vet i started to check online
about bloat, and found a Emergency First Aid kit for Bloat, since then
I've been trying to find a place here in Norway to order it from, but
no one even know what it is.

I've now decided to make one myself, with a little help from some of the people driving the ambulance


http://www.kifka.com/Elektrik/BloatFirstAid.htm

Awwww that is a lovely idea :love: Sorry to hear that the vets don't seem to willingly want to help - that's such a shame. It's a shame you aren't over here. I have a great vet, Julia M Boness... :love:

Hope the little first aid kit all goes well :love:

Well Kari that made amazing reading, very educational, thank you for posting it.

Maybe in the health section we should put a link to that article, what do you all think?

There is too many dogs who dies of it.... it is a shame about the vets in Norway...some of them ain`t good enouht... And many of them shuldn`t be vets...

the vets I have uset are good... but the vet I used in easter seson, sucks..

I think that it would be a good idea Sandra, if everyone new more about bloat and what to look for and what to do to prevent it more dogs would be saved.

we're going for a 6 hour drive, to get to a really good vet when Lexus is going to have his 2 year old check up, and we're getting the x ray's done there.
When I'm not happy with the answers the vets here give me, I'll check with another one.

When we started raw feeding Lexus we asked one of the vets here for advice..
Bad Idea!! She told us she wouldn't recommend it because it would get Lexus aggressive, and that he wouldn't get all the minerals and vitamins he needs from raw food, she told us we had to use Hills or eukanuba ( the 2 brands they have in their store) I told her it might be a good idea for them to read up on raw feeding, because she obviously didn't have a clue what she was talking about.

Now they actually do recommend raw feeding, after seeing how good Lexus is doing on it.