My westie has had diarrohea and been sick a couple of times through the day today he has been fed on a raw diet now for around 9months, i phoned the vet for advice and they have told me to starve him for 24 hrs then reintroduce small meals of cooked chicken and rice slowly but not to feed any raw food until he completely settles down. My vets are not that keen on raw feeding so i am just checking this is right if he has been fed on predominately raw since last year.
My friend suggested giving him scrambled egg to start him off but i have never had a dog with sickness and diarrohea before so not sure whats best.

When mine have had D&V, my vet (who is in favour of raw feeding) also recommends feeding a bland diet of scrambled egg (no milk/butter) initially, and then boiled chicken/white fish and rice for a few days.  Once the D&V has cleared up and they are back to normal, reinroduce their normal raw food. 

Do you use white or brown rice and how much rice to chicken do you use?

I use plain steamed pumpkin to bung them up, keep some in the freezer for emergency use, works in hours and is natural.

>I use plain steamed pumpkin to bung them up, keep some in the freezer for emergency use, works in hours and is natural.

Not many pumpkins around this time of year, so out of interest, would butternut squash do instead?

mine too,shaynlolaCooked chicken and boiled rice(any colour!)soon sort out any tum problems.

oh I read about pumpkin puree on an american site,meant to get a can in.Wonder how it works?

White rice is more easily digestible.  Brown rice is harder to digest and may irritate the bowel further whichi is what you want to avoid.  Make sure you boil the rice in loads of water and boil it until it is mush (at least twice as long as you'd cook it for if you were cooking it for yourself).  I reserve the water that the chicken is boiled in and add some to the dish - makes it a bit more palatable and increases the fluid intake.

I buy a pumpkin in the Autumn,cook it and freeze in icecube trays and bag up the cubes and store in the bottom of the freezer. Don't know about the butternut squash.

Tinned pumpkin when you can get it tends to have spices added.

> I buy a pumpkin in the Autumn,cook it and freeze in icecube trays and bag up the cubes and store in the bottom of the freezer.

What a great tip, how much do you give? Our hounds 'forage' for rubbish when we're not looking and frequently suffer the after effects, good to know I can use something other than kaolin.

One cube still frozen and never needed to give more than 3 doses.

Strangely also works for constipation too

White rice is definitely easier to digest but beware some dogs cannot tolerate rice at all -I have two that can't.

Have had a look online and it seems butternut squash (being in the same family as pumpkin) is a suitable substitute. Which is handy as it's available year round in UK supermarkets.

Although I keep reading that it's the fibre in pumpkin that does the trick, I saw one place that said the fibre content of it was under 1%, whereas acorn squash (another relative) is 1.7%.

Do you peel it before steaming & then mash it before freezing, Rodach? Or leave the peel on?

I scoop the flesh out of the pumpkin and add a bit of water,cover and cook in microwave till soft enough to mash, drain off any excess fluid and put into icecube trays, I was told by US friends to give a desert/tablespoon so one cube worked out the same.

Another alternative is boiled white fish and potato, or i'll put the fish with rice or chicken with potato etc...
I always have a bag of white fish or frozen chicken breast in the freezer and also a box of boil in the bag white rice in stock.
Pro Kolin is always in the cupboard too...

Mine love pumkin.  I haven't froze it as didn't know how long it would keep for.

one of our Asian supermarkets/veg shops sell green pumkins are these the same.  i bought one once but never got round to using it.

> one of our Asian supermarkets/veg shops sell green pumkins are these the same.  i bought one once but never got round to using it.

Lucky you - I used to buy these when I lived near an ethnic market. I take it they are the ones with greyish skin and orange flesh? If so then they have a much better flavour than the orange ones. If they are really green they may just be a different variety of squash - pumpkin and squashes are all the same family.

As Marianne said further up this thread some dogs don't tolerate rice, and I thought Robbie was one of these?

I always prefer fish and potato for upset tummies along with a sprinkling of slippery elm powder.

If I have a dog with D&V I give fish and potato , I find if I give chicken and rice to my dogs it gives them the runs...

I used to give mine White fish and rice - he too would not tolerate the chicken very well,    as mentioned before boil the rice until its mushy !!! but look out they manage to spread it round the house !!

Hope your doggie is better soon

AJ

Yes, according to a friend of mine, raw feeder and knower of all good things natural!!, butternut squash works just as pumpkin does :-)

Edited: Ooops, sorry just spotted you've answered yourself ... it's early & I'm bleary eyed :-)