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You could be describing our last 10 days with Marni. He started having loose stools but they would keep improving for a day and then back to being looser and looser before being pure explosive and watery. Chicken and rice seemed to do very little and after a vet visit today he’s on probiotics and a course of tablets for the next 6 days along side sensitivity wet food all from the vet. Hoping to see some improvement ASAP as we just feel so bad for the little man.
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When we first got Benny he would often have small bouts of loose stools while we transitioned him to a different food to the one the breeder had him on (onto james wellbeloved lamb & rice puppy) but he improved a lot once he settled on it and only got upset stomach if he tried new treats or overindulged on the odd occasion.
I then switched him over to the James Welbeloved Turkey and rice as I felt the fattier lamb was causing his stool to soften through the day. we also got him a slow feeding bowl and were soaking his kibble for a minute or so before feeding to slow his digestion.
he did even better on this and we finally got to the point he was consistently doing chocolate brown playdough consistency turds 2-3 times a day which were the easiest thing to clear up after him.
then all of a sudden it all went to shit (literally) and he started getting yellow-ish looser stools again but even more frequently, this coincided with him becoming more adept at hunting every single disgusting morsel he could sneak without me seeing off the floors of the (disgusting) streets of central brighton so i became even more alert what he got his nose near and it would come and go. throughout though he was drinking plenty of water and was alert, energetic, good natured and showed no other signs of distress.
then it got to the point over christmas where a touch of added stress with lots more people around him saw him moving from loose stools into actual diarrhea territory and straining a lot more so we've moved him over to a bland diet of boiled chicken and white rice for the past few days but it's not helping as much as we thought yet. he's also not drinking enough water for my liking since we switched but i don't know if the water content in the rice is offsetting that.
part of the problem is knowing how much to feed him, everywhere mentions 2:1 ratio of rice to chicken but never how much he should be getting based on adult weight/current weight/age or any other useful metric.
he was on 50g x3 times a day plus <5 treats and a dentastix in the morning which saw him growing steadily and keeping a healthy weight. on making up his chicken and rice I was originally going to provide the same kind of portion size but it's just non-existent so he's on 80-100g three times a day but he's quite skinny at the moment. .
his anticipated adult weight is in the 10kg region I think and he's probably knocking around at about 6.5kg now.
anyone more knowledgeable in such matters able to weigh in with advice. obviously if it goes on much longer we'll have to defer to a vet for more serious intervention but he's been taking his worming tablets and is fully up on his shots so i'm still convinced it's just something nasty he ate that's working it's way out his system slowly slowed by the odd grim top up.
for now I just want to make sure he's not being over/under fed so we can settle his stomach without starving the poor chap or overloading his digestive system.
what say you hive mind?