My dog has had a poorly tummy for a few days. The vet said to give her rice and fish and see if this improves her tummy.
She didn't go to the toilet (except to wee) all day yesterday so I was hopefull that the loose toilet was easing.

Today when she went for a walk her poo was green and fairly loose and grainy. I assume this is the rice.  Sorry to be so graphic.

She has got to go back to the vet on Friday but any ideas what's causing this.

She hasn't eaten anything from the garden since she was poorly as she only runs out for a quick wee and back.

Rice has never given my dogs green poo. Have you tried starving her for 24 hours to give her system a rest before reintroducing food?

If the rice comes out visible in the poo, I'd stop giving it -plenty of dogs actually get worse by being fed rice as they cannot tolerate it. I have one like that. Give the fish only, or boiled chicken.

How did you cook the rice?  My breeder advised me to always overcook rice for the dogs otherwise it can go straight through (boil it to death she says!)

If you are cooking more than one portion or rice at a time you must take care to store it properly.  Rice can cause food poising very easily if left around at room temperature and, whilst a dogs digestion will be better able to cope than ours, a poorly dog doesn't need anything else to cope with.  Cool the rice rapidly and refrigerate as soon as possible. 

Some people recommend potato rather than rice (better tolerated) so you might want to try that instead, alternatively try something like Chappie.  It's quite a good invalid food and most dogs are happy to try it :)

Dodgy tummies can take a while to settle but do try and encourage her to drink in the meantime.  Hope all is ok

Forgot to say, I find pasta works better than rice. Again overcooked!

I find potato is better than rice (or pasta), and poorly tums are usually sorted with a day or 2 of fish and potato. As Marianne says, plenty of dogs can't tolerate rice.

There seems  to be a bug going around; we've had a few clients reporting green poo recently. Conservative treatment (chcken and rice, etc) seems to sort it out in a few days,although a probiotic can be helpful afterwards.

Grainy poo after feeding rice simply means that the rice hasn't been cooked long enough and with enough water - the rice should be solid and carvable when it's given, not crumbly and grainy as we like it. Cooking it with four times as much water as rice seems to be about the right balance.

if my dog is loose i find starving for a bit helps then i into fish or chicken or porridge on its own.

I cook pudding (short grain) rice rather than the usual long grain rice type really well done so its sticky and as someone else said 'carveable'..it works best..and yes, refrigerate. Nice bit of plain fish and pudding rice after 24 hours of starving usually helps and some PB's. Hope shes improving.

Just a thought about green poo

It's worth mentioning for the benefit of other readers that if you see bright green poo (a very unnatural green) then you ought to suspect rat poisoning and get to the vet immediately

((I'm not suggesting this is the cause in this case but if someone were to be googling for information it's a handy thing to know...))

my puppy had a really bad  upset tummy   a few weeks ago ,my vet gave him RC sensitive diet in tins for 5 days with tree bark powder http://www.dorwest.com/Catalogue/Dietary-Supplements/Tree-Barks-powder and http://www.purinaveterinarydiets.com/Product/FortiFloraCanineNutritionalSupplements.aspx he was fine within 1 day.

And another thought about green poo - some dogs get this after being given yoghurt.

one of mine had VERY green poo the other day. Seems stole some green ready roll icing while counter surfing!

Lynn

Thank you for your replies. I will try giving just the fish on her next meal.

Judging from your replies, I think maybe I am not cooking the rice long enough.

I have to go to the vet on Friday so hopefully if it is not sorted out before, I will get her sorted out then.

She is very lively in herself. Although at nearly 12 yrs of age, she does sleep a lot as well.

Hope she is back to her normal self soon.

I also starve for a day - in captivity all cats and dogs -( Tigers ect, hunting dogs ect) are routinely starved for a day to clear their gut.

If ours are ill after Ive gone down the chicken, rice route I starve its usually works, if the bland food has not worked or chum.

NOT pups but adult dogs it does not hurt them.

Is she wormed? You don't want necessarily to worm her if her tummy is already upset, but I have heard that worms can appear like grains of rice....

Just a thought :) by any chance your dog may have eaten rabbit/horse poop etc?  If mine do this, sometimes their poops go a strange green colour :)

i've noticed my lot have darker poo since eating F4D and yes horse poo has a very green effect lol

Another thought.  My dog eats grass when he has a poorly tum (natural remedy) and then he has grassy green poo.