Why Your Pet Eats Poop?

Your dog eats poop , has aggressive behavior or has episodes of extreme hunger, could be dealing with Exocrine pancreatic insufficiency 

It is a pathology that we see especially in German shepherds and in young subjects (2-3Years).

It consists of an alteration of pancreatic function with an initially compensatory phase.
To then arrive at a serious insufficiency that causes the lack of digestion of food and Consequence a lack of absorption of nutrients. The animals will therefore present themselves a lot thin up to cachexia. The stools are creamy and yellowish. Not absorbing the fats the stool will be greasy.
The aspect that allows us to diagnose this problem is the fact that in the course of pancreatic insufficiency the dog is voracious to the point of becoming even aggressive because he doesn't assimilate and therefore he's always hungry.

Signs of Pancreatic Insufficiency 

It only develop when more than 85 -90% of the

secretory capacity of exocrine acinus cells has been lost.

It has been seen that such insufficiency can be caused by pancreatic inflammation and  secondary by tumors.
We can classify them as 
idiopathic when we don't know a very specific cause and this is conditioned by predisposing genetic factors; 
despite being a pathology that presents at a young age, within a year and a few months the animals lose their function of the pancreas but not suddenly.
Clinical signs are manifested when there is a functional loss of about 80% of the pancreas;

Is There a Difference Between Males and Females

There is no difference between males and females , even if it is more frequent in males and this pathology mainly affects animals of big size (German shepherd most of all ) in the cat this pathology is very rare ,particularly in older animals but in young animals it is unknown.

Your dog is eating like crazy 

When your pet is eating a lot and it’s still very thin (cachexia) you should call your vet to make a measure of blood sugar level  . Diabetes is medical condition in which there is not always weight loss, in fact sometimes the animal can be obese in addition

When your pet go to pee a lot  and drink a lot of water  we can still think about hyperthyroidism.

Process by Which a Disease or Disorder Develops

The lack of digestive enzymes also leads to a poor secretion of bicarbonates so the  buffer system at the gastric level fails with consequent hyperacidity, still the bacterial growth does not come to be inhibited by acid acinus. Because the malabsorption of  lipase .The animal emits yellowish, soft and oily poop.

You Can See That Your Pet Licks itself Continuously At the Expense of the Perianal Region .

Sometimes the poop can appear normal when there is still no complete loss of pancreatic function. Also stool can appear normal when the animal follows a low-fat diet for  which is not very affected by the problem related to lipases;
- Vitamin b12 is absorbed at the level of the ileum therefore when there is pancreatic insufficiency it also develops a deficiency of this vitamin with consequent anemia .Vitamin  b12 deficiency is considered a negative prognostic factor in diseases to chronic trend.

Conditions to Witch You Should Pay Spacial Attention

If you find your dog’s poop smelling like foul , it’s voluminous and fatty, borborigms ,flutulence when your dog  eats poop ,or your dog is feeling of extreme insatiable hunger ,pee a lot , has greasy aspect of the mantle especially in the perianal and caudal regions, hair loss and appearance of eczematous lesions, nervous and aggressive behavior.

You better call your veterinarian because it’s probably pretty urgent to do appropriate diagnostic tests.

Written By Imrana Sljivo DVM 🐾

This is Dangerous Pet Feeding

In this article i will tell you about a dangerous practice of feeding your pets mostly cats and dogs with now popular vegetarian or vegan food.

 Many vegans or vegetarians make also their pets vegans or vegetarians even if those poor animals don’t really want that.

They force them to live  “ healty life” thinking that they are helping them to live longer or maybe other reason ,but in reality they can do them a lot of harm.If you feed your pet like this you are crippling their body to heal itself.

Dogs any Cats have Teeth designed to eat meat

Your dog has the teeth specially created for the food they are born to digest.They are made to shear flesh of bones and rip.Their molars are pointed and that’s for a reason . Surely not made for eating plants .

Digestion of a Carnivore 

The carnivore stomach is short and simple and very acidic.It can move food quickly and deal with pathogens from the fresh meat .For example when cat eat mouse or when dog is in the wild and eats whole pray.

For break down fruit and vegetables they need more  time because  their digestive tract is not that complex.They tend to masticate their food many times, even the carnivores don’t engage in chewing at all.They rip their food into peaces and get them into their bellies.

The veggies and plants ,seeds and grains simply travel through your pets stomach because it can’t be break down ,just pass out as waste. Also don’t have enzymes in the saliva to break down of carbs and starches in the diet .Your dog or cat doesn’t produce cellulase to break down fibrous plant cell walls .The pancreas  need to produce enough amylase and work over time,also  produce lipase and proteases to digest fats and proteins.Pets do not produce enough amylase to process the starch. Feeding a 100% plant  can stress the pancreas compromising its ability to function normally. They also don’t produce the strains of gut bacteria necessary to break down cellulose.

It’s true that wild dogs and cats sometimes eats grass, berries and seasonally plants specially if they don’t have anything else to eat  ,they are not so strict carnivores ,but their intake of plant based food is not more  then 20% of diet. Cats are strict carnivores ,they are born predators.

The reasearch show that dog can develop over time ability to digest starch when they are constantly fed with grain based food .They can up regulate amylase production.

But their body's weren’t made to live this way .people sometimes out of too much love make them pets live horrible way all because their private frustrations.One of the things is when they put their pets in small flats ,but that’s another topic.

Writen by Imrana Sljivo DVM 

26.08.2024