[rawfeeding] Re: Ate a baby bird & diarrhea/mucousy stool

Melani wrote:

>My dog . . . I heard what sounded like a baby bird scream. . . .
>she'd eaten it, . . . swallowed as big as she could. . . .
>
>[S]he seemed fine the rest of that night, she had 3 small good
>poops the next morning. . . . The next morning, . . . [I fed her]
>. . . a little bit of beef liver (about the size of 3 quarters),
>beef heart (about 2 ounces) and . . . turkey with bones.
>She's had liver for quite sometime now, I've
>never gone over 2 quarters worth at a time since she is still
>getting used to it.
>
>Anyway, she had no bowel movements after the 3 small poops that
>morning until the next day. The 'next day' was yesterday. All
>yesterday and today, throughout the night and this morning, she has
>been having BAD diarrhea, mucous, pudding-ish, dark, etc. I know
>this can be from the liver, maybe an extra quarter was a bit too
>much since I also gave her the rich beef heart.
>
>My concern is this: How long should this type of bowel movement
>last if I gave her a bit too much liver/heart? Should it go into 2
>days? . . . How can I tell if maybe she got sick from eating the baby
>bird? . . . I haven't fed her yet today.

My vote is that it's due to the additional organ meat and will be over
shortly. You can either fast her for one meal or feed her something you know
will be good with her, like chicken. Given that the small animal that was
consumed was still alive, I doubt that it made her sick - I suppose it could
have been too rich as well. I'd be a bit more concerned about the cause of
the stool issue if the animal was dead already, but not much.

Lora
Evanston, IL

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