FDA names dog-food brands with potential link to canine heart disease
My purebreed english bulldog 9 years old ate zignature kangaroo for past 2 yearsZignature has the top most dcm cases from this report.He was diagnosed with DCM 2 nights ago.We had to put him down last night.Not sure if there is a relation, we never got a chance to validate his taurine levels but put him on taurine supplement, but there wasn't enough time to see the effect as he got worse with breathing and bloating do to the DCM and myocardial arithmia, was in severe cardiac arrest.I read on the possible link and the vet mentioned it could be related yesterday.He was born with an enlarged heart, so dont know if that's related.Who knows... we will miss him, I wish there was more we could have done.Also want to point out we did do 50% BARF diet, my dog had alot of allergy and supposedly did have gluten intolerance.
Barf was not always feasible to give being on the road alot, so we also fed him zignature.Since he was on it, alot of his conditions cleared up and I would say he was doing better overall health than on other brands (royal canine) till recently.More work needs to be done before I would blame the brand.