Gulley Park Pets Clinic shared Rock Creek Home Veterinary Care's post.

Give this talk over 10 Times a week. Hate for this to happen to even one dog whose owner is just tying to do the best for it. So unfair. If you feed a boutique or Grain-𝘍𝘙𝘌𝘌 food, please talk to your veterinarian about recent FDA reports linking these diets to dilated cardiomyopathy.This beautiful boy, who was one of my first puppy patients when I started my house call practice in 2012, was recently seen at a local emergency hospital for lethargy, occasional cough, labored breathing, and a distended abdomen. It was determined that he was in heart failure due to diet-related Dilated Cardiomyopathy. He had been fed a boutique brand grain-free diet. Despite being treated at two of the best specialty hospitals, as well as one of the best cardiologists, Gunnar's heart disease was too far advanced, and he was euthanized just two days later. Gunnar was one of the sweetest dogs I've known, always happy to see us. Gentle, loving, and playful. His owners, and I, are devastated. They have given me permission to share his picture and his story in order to raise awareness about this terrible disease, and its link to feeding boutique, exotic ingredient, and grain-free (BEG) diets.

Please read up on this issue, and if you are feeding your dog a BEG diet, please talk to your vet about switching.

Here are some links with more information:

taurinedcm.org/taurine-dcm-faq/

vetnutrition.tufts.edu/2018/11/dcm-update/

www.cvcavets.com/for-pet-owners/nutrition-grain-free/

If you are interested in following this issue as it develops, there is a Facebook group with lots of information here: www.facebook.com/groups/TaurineDCM/ ... See MoreSee Less

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