Boxergirl
Well-Known Member
2/24/2021 - I'm just copying and pasting a post I made a while ago... (FWIW, my girl presented at Stage III without the other symptoms.)
Purdue Bloat Study. For those of you not in the US who may not know, Purdue is a school of veterinary medicine and it's very good. The studies they publish are legitimate scientific studies.
https://www.instituteofcaninebiology.org/bloat-purdue-study.html
Here is the bloat chart I keep in my cabinet.
Info on the bloat accupressure point.
https://www.iwclubofamerica.org/bloataccupressure
And lastly two videos of dogs that are bloating. One lives and one doesn't. Please do watch these, even though they aren't pleasant. The symptoms are so vague that it's easy to miss and I think it's important to see that it really doesn't look life threatening. My daughter had two cohort members, after having been in practice for a couple of years, that lost dogs to bloat and they knew what to look for. If you do our own search on YouTube there are some videos showing how massaging and or rolling your dog around (that one's an EM) work for bloat. Of course anyone can to what they feel best, but I think that's dangerous and a waste of time. Get your dog to the vet ASAP, don't mess with massage and rolling.
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." - Mahatma Gandhi
Purdue Bloat Study. For those of you not in the US who may not know, Purdue is a school of veterinary medicine and it's very good. The studies they publish are legitimate scientific studies.
https://www.instituteofcaninebiology.org/bloat-purdue-study.html
Here is the bloat chart I keep in my cabinet.
Info on the bloat accupressure point.
https://www.iwclubofamerica.org/bloataccupressure
And lastly two videos of dogs that are bloating. One lives and one doesn't. Please do watch these, even though they aren't pleasant. The symptoms are so vague that it's easy to miss and I think it's important to see that it really doesn't look life threatening. My daughter had two cohort members, after having been in practice for a couple of years, that lost dogs to bloat and they knew what to look for. If you do our own search on YouTube there are some videos showing how massaging and or rolling your dog around (that one's an EM) work for bloat. Of course anyone can to what they feel best, but I think that's dangerous and a waste of time. Get your dog to the vet ASAP, don't mess with massage and rolling.
"Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment." - Mahatma Gandhi