My 7 month old westie was recently diagnosed with Campylobacter as he has had intermittent diarrhoea/soft stools ever since I've had him (3 months). The vet gave him and my other dog a weeks' course of erythromycin. Their stools are still usually pretty soft and sometimes completely runny!! (Sorry)

Does anyone have any ideas on this? Should they have a longer course of antibiotics? They are fed on Wafcol Salmon and Potato at the moment as we originally thought the westie had a food intolerance and seemed better on potato. We give them about 200g each per day which should be about right acording to the bag. The westie is so greedy he'd eat bowl after bowl if I let him!

Just a word of warning - Be careful with your personal hygiene as campylobacter can be passed onto humans.

My oldest son got campylobacter from seagull droppings, thats what the specialist thought anyway.  He was grown up and had left home by this time.  It made him very ill for months and lived mostly on rice chicken and fish until it all settled down. 

Your dog could have a long recovery time.  Your vet will know more about this.  I havent experienced it with any of my dogs though.

Hiya,
I agree you should be careful as it can easily be passed on to other dogs and to humans. Campylobacter is a particularly nasty bug and can knock your dog's system for 6, but if it is a healthy dog with no other problems then recovery shouldn't take too long. Did your vet provide you with probiotics while the dog was on antibiotics? You should still feed bio yoghurt to your dog for a while after anitbiotics to allow the digestive system to sort itself out! It could be that the antibiotic worked too well and that's why your dog is still having digestive problems.

Sarah

Also have you had a sample sent off? my old boy had this was on antibiotics for 10 days then he was ok, but had to send off a sample every 3 months because it can lay domant in the gut and return at any time....(so vet says).

Thanks for your replies, everyone! I would have thanked you earlier but I had a prob with my "cookies" and couldn't log in!

Charlie is now ok most of the time but his poos still seem to get less firm as the day goes on. I asked the Wafcol advisory service about this and they said I may be overfeeding him as he should be on 150g per day at 7kg weight and not 200g. The instructions on the bag are so vague and he is so greedy he'd eat all day if I let him! He eats this tiny amount in about 2 minutes so I think I may try the adult or large breed one soon to see if it takes him longer to eat.

Think I might put a message in the feeding section to see if anyone has any ideas.

Thanks again!

Hi,

Have replied to your other post :D