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Dog eating foxweed - Cause? and how do you stop it?
Hello all,
Our Beagle / Bluetick mix seems to have taken a liking to foxweed. Once he gets some down he starts coughing, puking and trying to soothe the itch or pain by eating every loose thing in the yard. We live in NM with a walled in gravel back yard which I keep very clean. I do the best I can to pick the weeds as soon as I see them, but they sometimes pop up overnight. The first time this happened was about 2 weeks ago. I eventually had to take him to the vet where they put him under and pulled the stickers out of his throat followed by a shot of steroid. Does anyone know what causes a dog to want to eat this stuff? Could there be something missing in his diet? He is an otherwise healthy 9 year old. The only solution I can think of would be to muzzle him when he goes out. The problem with that is that he wouldn't be able to spend much time out there since he couldn't drink water with a muzzle on. I am stumped as to what to do about this. -- Bluto |
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"Bluto" wrote in message ... Hello all, Our Beagle / Bluetick mix seems to have taken a liking to foxweed. Once he .....snip...... Does anyone know what causes a dog to want to eat this stuff? English is my second language and I don't know what foxweed is. Couldn't find a definition with Google or online dictionaries and encyclopedias either. I'm not a vet but I'd consider the possibility that your dog may need a vitamin supplement. Some time ago my dog started eating grass and at about the same time developed a small patch of what looked like demodectic mange on his front leg. I applied a herbal cream that had worked very well before, but it wouldn't heal and turned into an ulcer that grew to an inch across and kept increasing in size. Then I started giving him a multivitamin syrup and the ulcer showed signs of healing within a very few days. It's now almost completely gone after two weeks although the dog is weakened by cancer (story in another thread and in alt.pets.dogs). I've also known of other cases similar to this. |
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