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(More customer reviews)I have two yellow labs that have been very healthy over their ten years of life, excluding the fatty tumors and hip problem the bred is prone to. In August, 2010 I purchased these treats at Sam's Club. I try never to buy dog treats made in China, but somehow these slipped by me. Also this was the first time I had bought a pork treat. The dogs had a few of the treats from the bag over the next month. They started having loose stools and eventually one dog began vomiting. I brought him to the vet and they prescribed antibiotics. The other dog seemed fine until one night, he started heavy breathing and wouldn't stop. He kept coming in and waking us up. We tried letting him out, but eventually realized he was in distress and brought him to the emergency clinic at 2:30 a.m. They treated him for pain and recommended chest X-rays and blood work. By then, it was almost morning, so we moved the dog to our own vet.
After blood tests and further examinations, both dogs were diagnosed with pancreatitis. They had to be hospitalized and put on IVs for 3 days to allow the pancreas to heal. Currently they are on antibiotics, pain killers, and stomach medicine. They go back for another blood test for pancreatic levels on Monday. For a month, they can have no treats and hereafter, they must be on a low-fat diet. As you can imagine, the treatment has been quite expensive. The dogs have no energy and one still is barely eating. They are both weak.
Working with the vet, we reviewed everything the dogs had been eating. He was positive they had gotten into something. This was the only change to their diet we could identify.
We are shocked and heartbroken at all the distress our poor dogs have suffered. I hope that they continue to heal and that this does not lead to more serious problems. I just want everyone to know that dogs are extremely prone to pancreatitis and should not have high fat treats. A quick look at this bag is very misleading. It reports the maximum of most items, but only the minimum on crude fat. The minimum listed is 5.5%. You don't learn what the true amount of fat is. Also it says you can serve one treat per day. It does have a disclaimer that you should ask your vet about using them with older dogs.
I don't know if being made in China is the problem or the amount of fat in the treat, or something else. I just want to warn other people, so they don't end up with their dogs seriously ill.
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