Hi I am a care taker for a Great Dane. Last weekend she had a GI event that she seems to have recovered from now. But I am in the process of reviewing everything she ingests to make sure we are doing the best thing possible for her. I realize she is going to be a heartbreak kid someday -- but hopefully not any time soon and not on my watch.

Her muscle tone is perfect, skin and coat all extraordinary and for a Dane she has incredible energy, runs and gets a lot of exercise. On Friday when we returned from out a neighbor had left a huge jerky stick with the doorman for her. Since she does not eat before exercise she was so hungry and because it came from the doorman she was so excited -- she devoured it on the spot before I could even ask What is that.

A weekend of diarrhea indued. She is better now -- boiled chicken and rice, small meals and less rigorous exercise all week. But now I am reviewing her diet. She gets canned salmon almost daily (oh so much sodium), she get's peanut butter for a treat -- low fat -- low sodium, and also she gets marrow bones on the regular that have so cleared her of tartar.

So no more jerky but what is too much fat, what is too much sodium? If I rinse and strain the canned Salmon will that reduce the sodium. She has being so well on this diet -- looks so great, with great energy. I want to pin this last episode on the jerky indiscretion but I have to review what I'm doing with her whole diet