On the way back from picking my youngest up from school, the lollipop lady asked me if she could have a word.  She knows I have dogs and wanted to know if I'd ever heard of a dog bleeding from the back passage before.  Apparently her dog, a jrt, will only eat chicken :rolleyes:, despite asking my advice on feeding when she got him as a puppy, she couldn't bear to see him refuse his tea and he'd only any food if it had chicken in with it and now it won't eat anything else at all :rolleyes: :rolleyes:.

Now the dog is bleeding slightly from the back passage and the only experience of any bleeding is of parvo in a  puppy I used to walk as a teenager (donkeys years ago ), now it hasn't been sick or had diarrhea (sp?) and seems bouncy enough so obviously its not parvo.  I suggested she should go to the vets asap.  But I wondered if it could have anything to do with it's limited diet?  Any ideas gratefully received.

Thanks in advance

She definately needs to see a vet, it could be a multitude of things and some of them could be pretty serious.  Is there any question she might have fed it bone, cooked bones even?

No, she doesn't feed bones, just plain cooked chicken :rolleyes:

If all he gets to eat is plain cooked chicken then he is also malnourished as that would be far from a correct diet lacking many vitamins ans minerals.

I've explained that to her several times :rolleyes:, no calcium, no vitamins and minerals, told her that he won't starve himself, will eat anything even a decent kibble if he was hungry enough, etc etc :rolleyes:.  Its her first dog, he's about 15 months old, but she reckons he looks healthy and is active and happy, and she 'just bear to see him leave his dinner' :rolleyes::rolleyes: It's like she's proud that he only eats chicken!!

Told her again this morning that she should takie him to the vet, I'll let you know how they get on.

Edited to add: asked her if it was possible that he had eaten any bones recently - she said no but he's always eating sticks.  Sometimes I despair! :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

I looked after a chubby young Yorkie (as long as a dachsi), and they brought a whole Tupperware container of cooked chicken breast as that is all that she would eat.

I told them straight that she would get a few bits on her food but would be fed a complete food here, as this was totally unsuitable as the only food.

First day I gave her 1 ounce of complete and similar volume of the chicken.

She ate the chicken.

Next day she got a few pieces of the chicken and about two ounces of dry which she left.  So I picked it up and offered her it the next day with a few cubes of chicken, she ate about half.

The next day she ate a bit more dry.  the last two days she tucked into her 2 ounces of dry no problem, and I suggested they continue to feed her this small amount of dry food a day and nothing else until she lost a little weight.  I had frozen their large container of cooked chicken and returned it to them. :D

In Poland my dads cousin was a large animal vet.  He was asked by his employers wife to help them over their toy poodle not eating.

He put him in a kennel with just water and no food for two days, and on the third day gave him some dinner :D

Exactly another case of killing with kindness.

Could you take me in for a bit and control my food for a few months :-)  I'd come home lean and mean :-)

I could do with someone treating me like that as I am at least 5 stone overweight.

I'm 3 stone overweight

I don't eat sticks though :D

Right you come to me for the  5 stone and then I will come to you..

How can we keep dogs so well in trim and exercised but can't keep weight of ourselves.  :-) insane really..

I am back at my heaviest I have ever been plus a little more. :-(

Since I gave up smoking I've piled it on   I'm even heavier than I was when I was pregnant

I wonder  what Arden Grange tastes like

Ditto Barbara, always think how easy it would be to lose weight if I had someone as mean as me controlling the food ... LOL.

M.

Yep no self control long term.

Yip Vet for sure for a check up. Bleeding is generally a sign of inflamation ( or as JG has said possible blockage). Food like chicken isn't likely to cause inflamation.