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Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by tigershark on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:38AM (#20962012)
All those recommendations and they are not advising to let them eat the same food as the owner?
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by lvl4x on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:52AM (#20962133)
"Preliminary assessment of the responses received so far in the survey, doesn’t show any correlation between the cases that give a clear trace to follow in the investigation. In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill."

Seems unlikely that dog food is the issue, else they would have caught it by now. Dogs don't take well to quick changes in their diet either (they'd start showing some of the symptoms described), and the list of foods they shouldn't ingest is long. Recommending that people start feeding their pets human food would probably just make the whole situation a lot worse.

Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by tigershark on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:12AM (#20962318)
If it’s something that is happening simultaneously in all the country while dogs living in the same animal care are not affected seems to push strongly towards contaminated food rather than towards some mysterious non infective disease just appearing all over the country.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by kristofferR on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:32AM (#20962503)
Yeah, but it's weird that it's a combination of extremely sudden illness (often less than 24 hours from first sign to death) and a regular stream of new cases every day.

If it were from contaminated food you would expect it to happen more abruptly, then taper out. No common food link has been found either.

Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by tigershark on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:44AM (#20962614)
The extremely sudden illness seems more compatible with poisoning than with a disease, or more precisely, I’m not aware of any disease capable of killing in less than 24 hours from the early signs, at least in humans, but I’m not anywhere near an expert on dog’s diseases. About the food distribution can be that it’s affecting only some common ingredient used by different dog foods so it will be difficult to pinpoint it. If I were in Norway with a dog I would rather avoid the common dog food until there is more clarity on what’s going on.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by kristofferR on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:00AM (#20962734)
Yeah, the dead dogs all have the Providencia alcalifaciens bacterium: https://www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/MRWR00/Har-ventet-i-13-ar...
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by jwm4 on Sunday September 15, 2019 @01:01AM (#20975664)
Algae bloom kills dogs in an hour or two. Numerous cases is Southeastern US this August. All swam in lakes/ponds/stagnant water. Casuses acute kidney or liver failure.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by im3w1l on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:11AM (#20962826)
> In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill

Could it be food allergy?

Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by beat on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:45AM (#20962074)
As Robert Anton Wilson observed, we say dogs are our best friends, but we keep the best food for ourselves. Dogs know this, of course, and love us anyway.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by semi-extrinsic on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:04AM (#20962243)
Well, dogs are proper carnivores who can eat raw meat or fish stored at room temperature for days, without any problems.

If they come across enough food, they will eat until they puke, sleep for an hour, then eat their own vomit.

It's no controversial statement that dogs and humans have different preferences in food.

Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by outworlder on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:55PM (#20964562)
> dogs are proper carnivores

Cats are carnivores. Dogs are opportunistic carnivores. They prefer meat, but can survive on plant material.

> Well, dogs are proper carnivores who can eat raw meat or fish stored at room temperature for days, without any problems.

Yes, but only because they don't know better. Our digestive systems are better than dogs, although dogs are efficient at killing some pathogens(stomach PH is way lower). So they may fare better on not getting infected by stale food, but their systems will still have more problems trying to digest food full of toxins.

There is an enormous list of things that dogs cannot process (or are toxic), but we can. A lot of it is due to our liver. Dog's livers are... dog shit.

Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by scohesc on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:38AM (#20962557)
If only we were as efficient as dogs when it comes to recycling.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by warlog on Friday September 13, 2019 @10:44AM (#20962617)
We have two term presidents.
Re:Hundreds of dogs in Norway hit by mystery illness by beat on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:35PM (#20966854)
So at the end of the first term, we vomit a president up, and might eat the president again for a second term?