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I've been working at for Vet's for the last 5 years and you can imagine my surprise when a client told me that her pet was diagnosed with IBS!!!! I thought that I was going to fall out of my chair stunned! The client asked if I knew what it was. Hmmm.. nope don't think I have ever heard of it.

He pet stresses it's self out so much that it makes it's self sick. So my theory is right that diet is important but stress is a major trigger.

I told the client I have a cat and when he's upset or stressed he vomits and makes himself sick. I had started to sprinkle ginger on my cats food and told her about it. The ginger for my cat Driscal wasn't enough she we ended up putting him on a antidepressant and he is more relaxed and I haven't had a problem with cleaning up stress vomit. Yuck! It ended up that I couldn't even go away for more than 2 days even if my roommate was there cause he'd make himself sick.

I think in the next few years we'll be hearing a lot about animals with IBS!

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