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Today she isn't eating.  She is drinking.  Puppy looks thin to, but her stool is okay.  Getting ready to go to the vet.  I is a long way away.


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My friend has a GSD/Boxer mix, and it has really big, soft brown eyes that it uses to full advantage to beg treats from anyone who's soft enough to fall for its pleading looks. (Need I add he's overweight?)

That's why I said pit or mostly pit. The eyes are too small for a boxer, and don't protrude enough. Here's a purebred boxer for comparison.

I say mollaser breed before pit. That nose is too broad and short. Don't forget peeps, boxers come in brindle too.

I would say PB because of eyes small almond shaped characteristic of the breed head shape and body mixed with boxer wide muzzle somewhat upward turn jaw I I think I even see a little bit of wrinkle on the nose or more between nose and stop.I have both breeds and would think this is what they would look like mixed together. Maybe wlpool will post better picks when she gets back, what ever Cookie is I hope her and pup pull through this.

You might want to try adding a bit of Pedialyte to her water, or, if she will drink it, straight Pedialyte to help with dehydration. Ditto for the puppy. Dogs may not have the exact electrolyte needs we do when stressed, but I have found the Pedialyte helpful. Please be sure to update after the vet.

Definitely raw with bones and pumpkin.  Pumpkin is miraculous!!  It will slow things down or push things (that they shouldn't eat) thru.  Even dogs with a yucky tummy, who don't want to eat, will usually eat pumpkin.

The release of parasites, due to the worming, may play a part in the stool, also.  But, it is most likely due to the sudden change in amount of food.  It will pass. LOL  Might want to just slow down the intake a bit.....small, multiple meals.

Another nurse chiming in......if you feed the bones, grind them. That bleeding gut is too raw to take bones fragments right now.....sure hope she's feeling better soon......jackie harris

     I think the dog is an Brindle English Mastiff, possibly purebred. Once she comes back to good health, I'm sure her looks will change quite abit.
     Regardless of WHAT kind of dog she is, You did a very good deed by coming to her rescue. I hope that they make a full and speedy recovery.

That dog is not a Pit. Pit with Boxer, probably. Jaw structure is ALL WRONG for a Pit, and so is the angle from eyes to muzzle. Poorly bred Boxer mix or Pit/Boxer mix.

True.If anything it would more likely have mastif but it doesn't look all that big to have that crossed.Although I knew somone that mixed pit/bull mastif/amer.bull dogs and would come up with all different looks.(don't ask me why they did it)
Needless to say what ever she is she needs some good care. Hope all is going better today.I too believe that pumpkin is good as i have used it on my dogs when that had a raging case of the shits. The one was straining so much there was blood.I gave pumpkin and yogurt and with only a handful of the kibbble and the next day he was fine.

All the best to you.
~L~

Way back in about the second post, I said pit/boxer, which seems kind of like a DUH to me. That is a boxer face, but is clearly not full boxer.

Sunsilver, you are a nurse and I respect you for that, but the canine digestive tract is not human nor does it work like a human one. From word one, I suggested commercial raw that has the bone ground in. Commercial raw bone is powdered. No sharp edges there. Secondly, chicken breasts do not have bones that splinter. Thirdly, dog digestive tracts are MUCH more powerful both chemically and muscularly than human ones, and they have no problem pulverizing chicken bones...provided that they are RAW chicken bones. I have had 3 generations on raw now, and NOBODY ever got sick from it. 

You might like to say that you have known 5 or 6 dogs who got sick from it, but let me tell you about the literally MILLIONS of dogs who get sick every year from kibble, ESPECIALLY dogs with colitis. Feed a sick dog a NATURAL diet.

Also, somebody suggested a mix of chicken and rice and to avoid grain products. Um, rice is a grain, isn't it?