Hi all
I would appreciate some advice on my girl that is 8 weeks tomorrow, she has never been a big eater but the last 6 months has been doing well with food, even at the start of this pregnancy she was eating well. Over the last week she has slowly gone down on the food front and sometimes eats nothing unless i put scrambled egg in it. The problem now is that she has diarrhoea nearly every time she goes to the loo and its clinging to all her lovely 'trousers', i'm using babywipes to clean her and have cut some of the fur away. She also has lots of the pregnancy discharge so all in all her back end is a bit messy and smelly despite my efforts to clean her.

The question is what should i do re feeding her? at this stage she is supposed to be having quite a lot but she obviously cant fit it in as she's quite rounded now. I feed orijen so its a good quality food that she gets. I am going to stop giving the wormer everyday to see if its that causing the diarrhoea, but am reluctant to start other foods or keep adding different things to get her to eat in case this just makes her worse.

Poor little lady she can hardly move as it is and spends all her time laying down and panting (looks fit to burst) and then to have a squidgy bottom cant be nice but i'm worried about her nutrition. Never had this with her mum!

Hi,

I have no advice on the eating problem but when I was giving my pregnant bitch panacur daily while she was pregnant it gave her diarrhoea too.

Could she possibly be going into labour early? Ive heard of pups being born a week or so early before.
If you think its just digestive, rather than labour, then give your vet a call and see what they can suggest.

Dont think its early labour as its been going on for a week intermittently but seems worse today. Will call vet in the morning if she still not having a solid poo first.

Am keeping a very close eye on her, hope she'll hold them in till mid next week as dont want them too early!

Try splitting her meal to three or four meals a day, my girl is also just over 8 weeks gone now and she went right off of her food too. Now she has little and often and is eating everything we give her.

Please ring the vet though too just to be safe, it could be something or nothing... Are you giving her the liquid, paste or granules wormer?

she's having granules but have not given it tonight. Have tried doing small meals but she's not bothered, i think she's gone off her biscuits which i always mix some good quality canned food with. She seems well and has just eagerly eaten some cooked chicken and raw carrot which i mixed with some water as was worried she'd get dehydrated because of the diarrhoea, she is drinking ok though
she does seems to be able to hold herself with having a poop, she's not doing it all the time uncontrolably but when she is outside she does go and its small amounts today.

Am going to speak to the vet in the morning if she is still the same.

how is she ??? x

well she seems ok in herself (went balistic at the cat which is normal and wanted to go on the normal dog walk with the others,didn't let her though), wont eat her normal food but keen on anything else i give her! she's had a carrot this morning and am going to make up some chicken and rice for her. She loves scrambled egg but not sure if its this that caused her to be squidgy in the tum. Her poo was a bit firmer than it was yesterday (still quite soft though) initially but the more she goes it seem to get runnier. It maybe because she hasn't eaten much and so not a lot to poop. Drinking normally.

I feel happier with her today, she just seemed so fed up yesterday.

Thanks for your concern and help everyone

I would give her some Natural Bio Yoghurt. After a bout of diarrhoea it helps to put the 'good' bugs back into the digestive system.  Works after anti biotics too.

glad she seems better today :)

scoffed down fish and rice and just had a fairly normal bottom action! next worry will be the birth, doesn't matter how many times you've gone through it already they are all so different.