Duke the Weimaraner with IBS was painfully thin!

Sep 3, 2025 Vegan Vet

Weimeraner Duke with severe IBD and all ribs showing prior to starting a vegan diet

“We tried 9 different brands of dog food in total (he continued to lose weight and have chronic diarrhoea on all of these). These included raw diets, hydrolysed diets, novel diets, insect protein diets etc, all recommended by a well known specialist vet after being referred to them by our local vet.”

💚 “Our 3 year old Weimaraner Duke had been having chronic digestive issues for a couple of years, with things getting particularly bad when he turned 2. He had constant diarrhoea and quickly started to lose weight.

He went from weighing almost 30kg to 21kg. He was painfully thin and you could see almost every bone in his body. We tried everything. We were desperate to get answers. After many diet changes and countless visits to the vets urging them to investigate further, he was referred to a specialist and underwent tests which confirmed he had chronic IBD.

We tried 9 different brands of dog food in total (he continued to lose weight and have chronic diarrhoea on all of these). These included raw diets, hydrolysed diets, novel diets, insect protein diets etc, all recommended by a well known specialist vet after being referred to them by our local vet.

For example, Purina HA was recommended by the specialist as we were told it had no allergens yet we later realised it contained soya which is a common allergen in dogs with IBD!!

Not knowing where or who else to turn to, we scoured the internet in the hope of a miracle and we finally came across your website – and let me tell you what a revelation that was. We were so impressed by the level of information about IBD, the possible causes and detailed information about how Solo Vegetal can help dogs like Duke.

It felt like we were finally being seen/heard and for the first time, we felt like there might actually be a light at the end of the tunnel.

💚 We booked an online consultation with Arielle to run through his background before we committed to switching diets once again and she made us feel like we could get Duke healthy again. Arielle’s detailed explanation and reassurance gave us the confidence we had lost in everyone else. She explained things to us about the disease that no other vet had told us before and it was abundantly clear she truly understood the mechanics of IBD.

We proceeded to place our first order with Just be Kind on 28/07 and we haven’t looked back since. Without wanting to sound dramatic, Solo Vegetal, Green Crunch and Give A Dog A Bean have literally saved and brought our boy back.

💚 Had we not found you when we did (we saw many vets including specialists and not one suggested a vegan diet so we didn’t even know this was an option for dogs) I dread to think where we’d be now!”

See the images below of Duke before and after transitioning to food from our Just be Kind Shop

Weimeraner Duke very thin before vegan diet and normal weight after as severe IBD

So grateful is Duke's Mum that he has had his health transformed through this food, that she sends us a photo each year of her healthy muscled Weimaraner under the Christmas tree - what a success story for kind pure plant-based dog nutrition that has saved his life!