Please drop a Prayer or 2 for Max - Page 3

Good to hear Max is at home healing from his injuries....
I always tell people getting pups from me that the dogs worse enemy is a car.
My Lab got hit & killed a few years back and I have a 7 foot fence all around my yard,
someone had left the gate open, that's all it took, that was winter time too, and the snow
banks were very high, and she was a yellow lab so she just blended in
She was not the only one that got out 3 other dogs went with her, but I was able
to go and call them back, the lab was with my big shepherd Rollie and he saw her get hit, after that he was afriad of cars for
quite sometime.

Max has dodged a bullet, he is one lucky dog, good luck with his recovery,
such a scary thing to have happen.

I used to work for a vet. There was an abbreviation for what happened to Max: HBC. Often the outcome wasn't as good as what you've experienced.

Seeing those broken bodies taught me to never, EVER let my dogs run at large off leash, unless I was in an area where vehicles weren't a threat (e.g., deep in the woods.)  After losing 3 cats (one to a vehicle, two to a cat-hating neighbour) I don't even let my cat roam outside. Not only is the road in front of the house very busy, I also have 400 acres of bush behind me, and you can hear the coyotes howl at night! 

Wishing Max a speedy, uneventful recovery...

I wish You and Max a speeding recovery...I hope everything goes well and he's back where he belongs...

Please take care and keep Max close to your heart...

~Bob~

Thank you all for all your prayers and well wishes.

Max is doing well. A bit sore and confused about breakfast being on a stool (to help prevent bloat), but other than that, he is doing well.

Thank you  again.  I know it was your one extra prayer that made everything work out. 

Elevating the food bowl actually increases the risk of bloat.

Interesting.  It was actually my vet that told me to elevate it.  

The (veterinary)  "Jury is still out" on that one.  Three years ago when the Shiloh 
bloated, one of our vets told me that recent research seemed to be showing
that raising the food bowl would, if not cause Bloat, at least make it statistically
more likely.  (I had told her when bringing the dog in that we routinely fed on a
stand for him, because Shilohs are reputed to bloat even more easily than pure
GSDs).  It also seemed to be better for him, as in more comfortable, as he is so
tall.  Lots of Dane owners feed raised for that same reason.

So I stopped raising his bowl.  Subsequently my own GSD Taz has bloated, I
never fed him with the bowl raised  (wasn't entirely convinced it was preventative) 
and still don't.  I have over those three years read magazine etc reports on the
ongoing research on this aspect of 'feeding & nutrition', and have seen the cases
both For and Against still argued.

What I would do is let the dog be the judge - if it is obviously more comfortable
eating in one way more than the other, seems to be swallowing at a sensible
pace, etc, I'd go with that, whichever it was.

I think preventing bloating is more about not mixing exercise with large quantities
of food OR water, i.e. soon either before, or after.  [Although again statistically some
studies have shown that doesn't make any difference either !]

Fawn ,, glad thing are looking up for Max,,,:) 
 

fOOD AMOUNT AND WATER CONTENT AND HOT DOG OR COLD DOG IS BLOAT GROUNDS.

a LARGER CHESTED DOG WILL BLOAT EASIER...THEY GOBBLE FOOD ALSO,.

FEED SMALLER AMOUNTS MORE TIMES A DAY WITH WATER IN MED AMOUNT
BE CAREFUL TO NOT LET A HOT DOG DRINK MORE THAN A CUP OF WATER TEPID ,TILL IT COOLS DOWN AND RESTS IN CLOSED KENNEL FOR AT LEAST 30 MINS.

NO HARD PLAY OR EXERCISE DIRECTLY AFTER EATING EITHER,, BLOAT IS USUALLY IN CERTAIN BLOOD LINES ALSO MORE THAN OTHERS,