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Remembner if fed in the correct portion and if the pup doesn't have a small infection then any specific puppy food can be perfectly ok. A higher quality food (and you can tell by the price and the list of ingredients - meat should be high up not 'animal derivatives' or some such thing) tends to produce tighter stools as you tend to have to feed less of it, but any good branded good is fine.
I will try and find a post i wrote about tightening up stools a while back....
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This was written for someone else, it is more detail than you need but some hopefully is useful to you and other watchers....
(A young puppy had squirty diahaoria.
If you were my puppy buyer this is what i would tell you to do:
1) Starve the puppy entirely for 24 hours.
2) Get sachets of rehydration prowders from the vet and give her this in her water for the next two days to replace the enormous amount of minerals and fluid she looses each time her stool is runny.
3) Pick a complete food (puppy formula) you are happy with, be it the Poplan (although myself after this experience I'd scrap that entirely) and go with it and it alone. I would recommend James Wellbeloved Turkey or lamb and Rice myself, or even better the white fish version of this if you can get it. Pets shops stock it. Do not start feeding it yet - read on.
4) Go round and pour boiling bleach water on all piles of loose stools in the garden and disinfect and scrub her cage out and all round her cage. Bin the bedding you have been washing constantly OR boil wash it twice at least.
5) Bin her bowls if they are plastic and buy new ones to start after the 24 hour starvation period, if they are metal give them a boiling soak and shine them up like new!
GET YOUR RESULTS FROM THE VETS AND I WOULD STRONGLY IMAGINE HER STARTING A COURSE OF ANTIBIOTICS TO SHIFT WHATEVER IF ANTAGONISING THE PROBLEMS HER MIXED BAG OF FOOD IS CAUSING HER (OR CAUSED HER LIVING WITH THE BREEDER). Absolutely and utterly finish the course of tablets.
6) Do NOT take up the vets offer of complex expensive chicken and rice Hills formulas they sell. James wellbeloved is half the price and hyperallergenic too. They make fortunes of commission on Hills and it and it is not that good. When they ask if you have a diet planned out say you have any you will feed rice and chicken for a couple of days.
7) Buy a big family sized roast chicken. Roast it up in the oven with no stock or extras on it, pick it to bits and put in a tupperwear box in the fridge. Boil up some rice. After 24 hours of absolutely nothing but water, give her two tablespoons of rice and four or five bits of nice fresh chicken. Do this five or six times the first day.
Nearly forgot, the vet can sell you (but may perscribe, I can't believe he hasn't already!) a tube of what is basically Kaolin paste called ProKolin. You don't need a perscription, its about £12.00 for a large tube. About 20 minutes before each chicken and rice meal give her a dose (as per on the side according to her weight). To weigh her stand on the bathroom scales yourself (brace yourself - grin). Take note, stand off, pick up pup, stand on. Take your weight off and you have pups weight.
9) Finish the tube over 4 or 5 days maybe just dosing once or twice a day as she comes solid. Feed the chicken and rice for two days. IF it works fine. IF after starving her, using the perscribed treatments AND having her on chicken and rice she is still loose hammer the vets door down again and insist on further tests.
10) Boil a kettle on the 3rd morning, soak about 50gms of James wellbeloved (or whatever) until it is sift, mix it with the rice a little chicken. Fourth day just chicken and JW, fifth day just soft JW. Make less soft as the days go on then phase out the chicken and JUST feed her complete food, nothing else. The odd biscuit of course but NO other food added to her breakfast dinners and lunches.
Lastly, make sure you are not overfeeding her. Around 400-500gms a day i absolutely tons for a quality complete food and a 10/11 week old pup. Most will struggle with 450gms and remain with solid stools.
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Or this is simplier and less waffly...
If I were you. i would follow this:
Starve the pup for two entire meals. No biscuits, no treats, no nothing. Plenty of fresh water down, change the water at least three or four times a day - dogs prefer freshly run water.
Then after two entire meals have been missed for the THIRD meal, soak a half portion of burns in boiling water till soggy like a puppy would eat it. Let it go just warm and feed it. Repeat for dinner so the pup has had a total of half portions for that day.
The next day use 3/4 of a meal and soak it for breakfast. And then for dinner. Now assess. Is the pup still runny, it may be LOOSE but is still having watery stools?
If things are slightly or much better the next morning use 3/4 of a portion again but just throw some boiling water in his bowl, throw your 3/4 portion on top and swirl it around for a minute till slightly soft but nice and warm still. feed that morning and night.
Now if the pup still has postively runny stools go to the vet.
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