I am about to take the advise I have read on the forum and feed my puppy (Bracken) boiled white fish and rice to see if it will stop his diarrhea. We were at the vets for his second injection on Tuesday and he gave us some dry meal for him...it helped until it ran out and now he is pooing loose again.

When should I see an improvement (if any).

What about quantities, how much should I give him?

Can anyone help me?

I had a pup a lot of years ago and it died at 6 months with intestine problems, during an operation to try and fix him..I don't want this happening again, but it is always in the back of my mind, I dont know what my 5 year old son would do without his puppy pal now???

Hi Jackie,

I'm no expert but my Munster pup had runny poo like I've never seen before (liquid and tons of it!!) last week. I think he picked something up in the woods. Anyway, I fed him chicken and rice as I have read before but he was just as bad. Phoned the vets, they said starve him for 24hrs, which I did, and then start him on boiled chicken and rice - Hey presto!!! Back to normal poo in a day! but I carried on for 2 more days and now back on normal food :)

Zoe P x

Hi Jackie,
I would starve him for a day first, and I would also give him bio yoghurt a couple of times a day - it has live cultures in it that will replace the (good) bacteria that should be in his intestine.
To be honest, with my own puppy when he was this age, it was a recurring problem, and after about 3 weeks of it I had to change his brand of food - no problems since! And the bio yoghurt worked wonders too!
Hilda

Hi Jackie, do you mean he had the dire rear last Tuesday when you took him to the vets? What food did he give you for it? I think you need to take him straight back again, A week is a long time for a pup to have the runs. Also your vet was wrong to vaccinate your pup if he had diorrhea then. Has your pup got a temp & did your vet take it when you took him to the clinic? Sorry for all the questions but there has been a nasty enteritis bug doing the rounds over in UK lately & I don`t want you to take any chances with Bracken :)
Christine, Spain.

What are you feeding the pup on? Perhaps he would be better off on a barf diet. It's quite a big step but if certainly worked for our last puppy who was loose when we had him first. In the meantime try homoeopathic sugar pills arsen. alb 6c or merc viv 15c. A good food to give him at this time would be cottage cheese with the pulp of fresh carrots, brocolli and lettuce that has been put through a juicer. Then after a couple of days give him some raw beef mince mixed with the yolk of an egg. After that his motions should be firm and not smelly!
Best of luck.
Karen

Hi, me again, I am feeding him on Pedigree Chum puppy food, and the puppy food mixer.. We tried putting him onto to dry feed, (I cant quite remember the name as I am at work) and this was when his doings started to change. He is neither up nor down apart from this....Last night I fed him white fish and rice and then gave him some bio yoghurt. I gave him a smaller portion than usual and then gave him a little more later on. When I got up this morning there was no mess at all, where normally there is two or three wet doings on the newspapers that we put down. Now I am worried the other way incase I have clogged him up.

What should I try feeding him on? I gave him the white fish and rice again this morning. Should I starve him or see how this goes. I have bought a Kaolin mixture but have not given him any yet.

Hi Jackie,

So was it the dry food that made him runny? If you think it was then you might want to see how he is on the fish and boiled rice. I know when I had starved Mungo for 24hrs and then fed him boiled chicken and rice it wasn't until the day after that he pooed (I guess it had to work back through his system). If his poos go back to normal on the fish and rice I would introduce a different diet very gradually (decreasing the fish and rice and increasing the new food over a couple of days) but if he is still runny I would phone the vet and ask their advice. :)

Hi, I am not sure if it was the dry food cos we took him back off it and he was still loose, I have phoned home and my husband says that he has only done one doing today and it was a bit more like the real thing, if you parden the expression.

I will wait and see today how he goes and if things have not started to improve then I will take him to the vet tomorrow night.

Thanks for the information, you have put my mind at rest.

Hi Jackie,

I would take the advice you got on here. I have two pups of 14 & 18 weeks and they went through a stage of having runny poo for a couple of days. I took the advice I got from a vet which was:

Starve pups for 24 hours and only give small amounts of water every now and again, not ad-lib.
Then feed several small meals of boiled chicken and white rice
No kibble as this can irritate the stomach lining and no milk or eggs as this can maintain the bad bacteria in the tum
Then gradually re-introduce small amounts of kibble or whatever you're feeding after 3 days and introduce it slowly a bit at a time.

Worked absolute wonders for my lads as they had terribly runny poos and it was making them feel quite "off".

Best of luck with wee Bracken

love

Jasperooni