Sunday, December 13, 2009

Finding the Cause of Puppy Vomiting Makes Treatment Easy

Is your puppy vomiting? Acute vomiting, that is a one-off occurrence, that is quickly over, may not be much to worry about. But if your puppy vomits frequently, then you do have cause for concern.

Puppies and young dogs up til about two years of age, are into everything. They experience life to the full. They are learning fast and want to be stimulated.

This means they can also try to eat everything. As they are growing, they have a high nutrient need. They need quality food. Quality food that mimics their evolutionary history.

Let’s see what that means.

Dogs are pack animals. And they work within a strong hierarchy. This means that the alpha pair get the choicest parts of the kill, the lower ranking members come next and the puppies come last. Often wild puppies are only left with the bones of the carcass.

This may sound harsh, but stop and consider for a moment. Puppies are growing fast. This means they need a lot of bone food, amongst other things. What better bone food than bone itself?

If you feed your puppy lots of manageable sized, raw bones, at least one a day, then you will be reducing the need for him to try to eat everything. This may stop the main reason your puppy is vomiting.

Vomiting is a purging. The body is trying to get rid of something that can do harm. Such as food poisoning. So if your puppy is vomiting regularly, look at the most likely cause.

The food you are feeding him.

If this is a commercial brand, then you are not only starving him, as the quality is usually very poor, you are also poisoning him with a chemical cocktail. The chemicals put into pet food are highly toxic and would never be allowed in human food, regardless of any claim made on the packet.

By feeding your puppy a quality, homemade diet, ingredients that you have control over, you may well totally cure why your puppy vomits.

In the short term, you can assist your puppy vomiting, to quickly rid his toxic load, by giving him the homeopathic medicine Arsenicum album. This assists the body in purging anything unwanted. It’s a wonderful medicine to have in your first aid kit, with so many uses, not least of all for vomiting.