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Not always the case. It can happen, but not always the case.

Jet has never been at or over her race weight as a pet. Her race training weight was 51/52 pounds. I've never gotten her over 50 pounds. She normally is about 47 pounds. She looks fine and she's healthy, so I don't worry about it.

Next dogs won't be allowed on the couch. Jet and Ryan are on the furniture, though much less now as we try to persuade them to look elsewhere for their lounging space. T doesn't get on the furniture, though he does sit his butt right at the edge of the couch cushion, but keeps all 4 feet on the floor.

Have you tried feeding smaller meals more frequently or feeding her from your hand. Not a vet - but it sounds like she's getting a lot of air in her belly when she eats.

I've always used woolite pet stain remover or resolve and it has always removed the blood from carpets and furniture.

Ryan can't do lamb, chicken, wheat, soy and I just avoid corn (hard to find wheat, soy, lamb and poultry free stuff that does have corn in it ) Jet can't really handle lamb or chicken Beef or fish wheat free foods work at our house.

Amputating won't help if it has metastasized from another area. Good luck figuring it out.

longer if it doesn't

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If it is just a little low, your vet should be giving you an Rx for enzymes and that should be plenty to fix him up. What did the vet suggest after confirming the diagnosis?

How much less? We can find an 8oz bottle of Pancrezyme for $100 and the shelter is able to get it through the vet for a bit less. If the shelter can get it somewhere else for less, that would be helpful for them.

T has Pancrezyme on his 2 meals a day and that's all we have to do for him. He looks good, eats well, poops good and if you didn't know he had it, you'd never even guess.

Not something we have to worry about here

I'd get bloodwork done on the one that hasn't had it done. Then not do bloodwork until you actually need bloodwork for anybody else. Jet hasn't had bloodwork done in a long time and I'm ok with that. Ryan was a pincushion 2 years ago and hasn't had anything done since - I'm ok with that too. I have no idea what T's had done, but if they snip snip him, he'll have bloodwork done before that.

I assume you mean 1 week for tick prevention and 1 month for flea But that's incorrect - it's 1 month for tick and 3 months for flea - or at least it used to be when we used it (we don't need anything here)

It sounds like intestinal issues to me (I'm NOT a vet though) For the rest of the weekend, I'd go with rice and beef or rice and turkey or rice and chicken - bland diet. Call your vet on Monday and get him wormed anyway. See if by Monday you have any improvement in him. He may not be doing well with something that is in the kibbles. I will sometimes use oatmeal or mashed potatoes instead of rice when I'm feeding bland. When Ryan was eating kibble with wheat and chicken in it... he had pudding poop.

What symptoms is he experiencing?

I used to walk my dogs for about 3-4 miles in an hour in the morning, come home, shower and then feed them. Same with dinner - walk for an hour and come home and feed them about 10-15 mins later. Now - Jet will sometimes go out and get crazy before or after a meal.

If you haven't already, look up chocolate toxicity in dogs - then bookmark it for the next time. Even dark chocolate, it takes quite a bit of chocolate. And what you have in those candy bars isn't all chocolate either.

Description isn't entirely accurate. von Willebrands factor may be present in a vWD dog - just not always enough to do a good job. They can also have it and bleed due to something (injury, surgery, etc) and deplete the factor. And not all affected dogs will have excessive bleeding. Many affected dogs make it though their entire life without a problem due to the vWD. That's why the vets here not wanting to do the neuter is nuts to me. They have NOTHING that will suggest if he will bleed or not.

von Willebrands Disease - bleeding disorder common in dobermans

Yep, over a week ago and they've still not responded to my email.

Yep - I've emailed him, but this is a case where the more info I can get, the better

Bill hasn't been active here in a while. Do we have any other vets on GT? I'm looking for some statistics on vWD and neutering for our shelter.

Your vet should be able to recommend you to a specialist. Good luck