[Sad Puppy]

Well my dog died after being on Dinovite for 7 days, but she may have had a pre existing condition. She was an older dog adopted from the shelter and her medical history was unknown to me. I was trying to clear up her skin issues.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by Sad Puppy.

[Sad Puppy]

I agree. You need to take her to the vet. A blood test will tell you a lot.

[Sad Puppy]

So if every dog food contains that much fat or similar, I guess my takeaway from all this is that I should research a dog’s breed to see if that breed is prone to pancreatitis, and then feed them accordingly. We will never know really what the problem was with my dog, but this is a lesson learned for me. Thanks!

[Sad Puppy]

Too bad there is no warning on their website that the fat in their recipe could be fatal to some dogs. Seems like a pretty big oversight. Anyway, thanks for all the info, Patty!

[Sad Puppy]

Thank you Patty. Actually I misspoke that it was hamburger, it was 85/15 ground beef. But that is still high in fat, isn’t it? Her final meal consisted of about 1/2 to 2/3 cup of the food, half of which by volume would have been the beef.

Thanks for your sympathies, this has been a nightmare.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 4 months ago by Sad Puppy.

[Sad Puppy]

We started giving Dinovite to an older female cocker spaniel and within a week she was dead. The vets cannot say for sure what the cause of her death was and she may very well have had a pre existing condition, but I thought I should put this out there. We followed the recipe on the Dinovite website for the cooked food and one possibility that was mentioned by one of the vets was that the hamburger in the recipe may have been too high in fat, causing pancreatitis. Since the dog died so quickly and suddenly, no extensive tests were run to find the actual cause and we will never know if it was a coincidence or if something in her food caused a horrible reaction.
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