First round of puppy diarrhea.

:(, so sorry Vash is having a hard time! Keep him on the prescription diet of that's part of what helps his tummy.

The doggie daycare requires proof of vaccination right? Also, do you know what the sanitation and sterilizing procedure is at the facility? Does it smell like dogs!!??
 
I find it is always better to run full report on the stool when you have continuous episodes of bad diarrhea, including cultures. It is rare but dogs can be sick from e.coli as well... not sure if they possibly can have C diff, never found an answer to that.
My vet office only does reg worms stool, Giardia and Coccidia are send out stools for them and cost more, so unless I ask, they do not do it.
Hope your pup will feel better!
 
The vet seems to think Vash is suffering from a bit of a weak belly. They gave the same perscription as last time, except they extended how long I should give the medication & hills food. They also gave some probiotic powder for me to begin adding in a few days to help regulate his belly.

Hopefully Vash will be back to his normal self in no time.
 
Good luck! My Bailey went through the same thing as Vash. Almost a month of loose stool. The vet said she had a sensitive stomach and was also put on hills I/D canned food. (she still had loose stool with I/D kibble) and flagyl.

It turned out she was actually allergic to chicken.
 
take4roll10 said:
Good luck! My Bailey went through the same thing as Vash. Almost a month of loose stool. The vet said she had a sensitive stomach and was also put on hills I/D canned food. (she still had loose stool with I/D kibble) and flagyl.

It turned out she was actually allergic to chicken.
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It wouldn't suprise me if he had a food allergy to something. The hard part is finding out what exactly :)

Once i get his poop regular again I'll probably try experimenting with the treats I feed him for training. Give him one type for a few days just to see how he does on them. Maybe I can narrow down what's making his tummy upset that way.

I don't think it's something in the wellness puppy formula I've got him on because when I initially transitioned him he was doing great, but I suppose that too could be a problem.

I did ask for some food samples from TOTW so I may try to switch him to that if we are still having problems.
 
jerros said:
It wouldn't suprise me if he had a food allergy to something. The hard part is finding out what exactly :)

Once i get his poop regular again I'll probably try experimenting with the treats I feed him for training. Give him one type for a few days just to see how he does on them. Maybe I can narrow down what's making his tummy upset that way.

I don't think it's something in the wellness puppy formula I've got him on because when I initially transitioned him he was doing great, but I suppose that too could be a problem.

I did ask for some food samples from TOTW so I may try to switch him to that if we are still having problems.
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We are having similar problems with our pup, Lexi. It started a couple months ago and she had diarrhea at random--once a day, twice a day, every other day, etc.. We couldn't figure it out what it was. We stopped giving her ALL treats, and were just giving her kibble (California Natural Chicken and Rice). She continued to get sick regularly. I fed her boiled chicken once and she actually got worse.

I am now transitioning her to a lamb and rice formula, and it has gotten so much better.

So, it could be an allergy to the food that has developed because Lexi was fine when we first transitioned her to the chicken and rice. But now we've realized that's the culprit.
 
Thanks for everyones support/ideas and comments.

I think I've figured out a peice of the tummy problems. Tonight I gave Vash a Nylabone Healthy Edibles Bone because he was whimpering and wanted something to chew on to help reduce the teething pain.

Shortly after giving this chew to vash (a few hours) he asked to go outside, ran off (and I mean RAN like someone who's been holding it for 30 min on a car ride home) and went potty and the diarreha was back!

The nylabone item was the only thing he's eaten today that's not something I have fed him a zillion times before.

And as fate would have it, the first day he had the diarreha problems he also had one of these chews in his play pen.

Though this explains tonight & last weeks problems it doesn't explain what upset his belly this past monday. But I did buy some new training treats for him over the weekend so it's possible something in one of those treats caused the incident monday.

I'll be removing the healthy edible stuff from Vash's diet wholesale until I can verify it won't upset his tummy. And I'm going to begin adding some probiotic powder to his food tomorrow to help regulate his belly.

I wish I could ship Vash's nasty poo off to Nylabone and have them refund my vet bill... "Healthy Edibles" my butt...
 
I am not sure how old Vash is but Vibrant pets are really good product to try, we use show dog formula since Che is still a puppy 8 months old
 
SheltieChe said:
I am not sure how old Vash is but Vibrant pets are really good product to try, we use show dog formula since Che is still a puppy 8 months old
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Vash is 5 months old now. The vet's given me some FortiFlora which is a probiotic powder made by purina that I was supposed to start adding to his food sat (so I had enough to last for the switch back to his normal food). But I'm going to move it up a day in order to help him get this nylabone out of his system, or at least regulate it.

I'm intending to invest in some of the powder or tabs or something in the future after we get vash back to normal so when Vash has problems like this in the future I don't have to immediately run off to the vet. So I may look into vibrant pets after we get past this speed bump known as....*oh my god that's the most horrible smelling stuff ever...and it's all over the kitchen too...AWWWW come on don't sit in it, for the love of....now you need a bath!*
 
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