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Okay, so I am at my wits end with Grissom and his diarrhea. I'm looking for any and all suggestions.
I got Grissom New Years Eve at 8 weeks old. Other than an umbilical hernia, he was tip-top shape, perfectly healthy. His breeder had him on Pedigree, so I made the switch to Wellness Just for Puppy immediately. Switch went flawless, no loose stools. He was on Wellness until February, when I started ordering my food from my current job. I put him on Innova Puppy because I get it wholesale, and we dont carry Wellness. He was getting 50% Innova, 50% wild game meat. Again, transition went flawless. No loose stool.
He was always solid, and then around August he developed a poop eating habit, which is a whole other topic that has be absolutely at my wits end. Around this time, he developed occasional diarrhea, that he ONLY got after eating the poop, so I want overly concerned.
As time went on, it just got worse and worse. I put him on raw, but that only lasted for two weeks before I was kicked out of the freezer by my grandparents. I have no choice in my living situation to feed kibble. I fully intend to return to raw in January when I move out. As for now, this is not an option.
After going off of the short bout of raw, I put him on Evo Red Meat. He had constant black diarrhea. I was not over feeding, he was only getting 1/3 cup twice a day, which is slightly less than the Innova I was feeding. He was losing weight fast, so I fed a little more. The more I fed, the worse his stools got, and he kept losing weight. At this point I had a fecal sample run for parasites. Clear.
I fasted him for a day, did rice for a day (yeah, I know, ZERO nutritional value, but it pushed everything through his digestive tract) and put him on California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato. Because his stools were already so terrible, and he was a mess already, I transitioned him very quickly, over only about 7-10 days time.
He was 100% solid for about 5 days, even with the occasional poop eating, and I really thought we had figured it out. Wrong. Out of nowhere the diarrhea came back with a vengence. I was not enjoying the ocean breath from the Herring food, and bought him Cali Nat Lamb and Rice after about a month. Oddly, after yet another switch, he was solid for about 4 days, and then back to diarrhea. I tried giving him a little yogurt for the probiotics with his PM feeding, and about a week ago, started him on a pretty strong probiotic from Animal Naturals. After buying Restore ProBiotic from Animal Naturals, he again was solid for a few days- then back to runny pudding poo.
This is Grissom's entire nutritional history. I do not do treats. I do RMBs as meal replacements on Sunday to help keep their teeth clean without issues.
I'm at a loss. It seems like every time I change something- he does a little better, then back to total diarrhea, usually bloody. Even on good days, his first poo in the morning will be solid, and they get gradually softer as the day goes on. he used to poo about three times a day (and this was on 3 meals a day as a puppy) and now he eats twice a day and poos probably about 6 or 7 times a day. He can not hold it through the night, he is having to say outside because they are already not welcome where I am living- my grandparents are tolerating it because they know I am moving in three months. However, diarrhea in the house is going to get him a one way ticket out of there. It's snowing at night, and although he has a insulated dog house that I built with my grandpa, I hate that he's out there. It's too cold.
I'm taking him back to the vet at 5pm today, and I guess having all the tests run again even though they came back clear last time. I'm pretty sure he'll recommend Science Diet and antibiotics, which goes against everything I know... but I need a solution, and I need it fast.
Champ, who is ALWAYS solid. ALWAYS. And has been solid throughout this whole two month ordeal, has total water poo today. The kind that splashes when it hits the ground. I'm on a very tight budget until the end of December, and I can't really afford to be running both of them to the vet all the time, nor can I afford to move out of where I'm at because my grandparents are on the verge of kicking the dogs out. I can NOT lose my boys, but with them alreayd not liking dogs, and now the dogs having diarrhea all over the place, I'm on a thin line.
ANY suggestions welcome. I will try just about anything at this point. I wish I could just put them on raw, I wish the guidelines where I'm living weren't so incredibly stupid. Unfortunate circumstances put me there, and I can't leave yet.
I got Grissom New Years Eve at 8 weeks old. Other than an umbilical hernia, he was tip-top shape, perfectly healthy. His breeder had him on Pedigree, so I made the switch to Wellness Just for Puppy immediately. Switch went flawless, no loose stools. He was on Wellness until February, when I started ordering my food from my current job. I put him on Innova Puppy because I get it wholesale, and we dont carry Wellness. He was getting 50% Innova, 50% wild game meat. Again, transition went flawless. No loose stool.
He was always solid, and then around August he developed a poop eating habit, which is a whole other topic that has be absolutely at my wits end. Around this time, he developed occasional diarrhea, that he ONLY got after eating the poop, so I want overly concerned.
As time went on, it just got worse and worse. I put him on raw, but that only lasted for two weeks before I was kicked out of the freezer by my grandparents. I have no choice in my living situation to feed kibble. I fully intend to return to raw in January when I move out. As for now, this is not an option.
After going off of the short bout of raw, I put him on Evo Red Meat. He had constant black diarrhea. I was not over feeding, he was only getting 1/3 cup twice a day, which is slightly less than the Innova I was feeding. He was losing weight fast, so I fed a little more. The more I fed, the worse his stools got, and he kept losing weight. At this point I had a fecal sample run for parasites. Clear.
I fasted him for a day, did rice for a day (yeah, I know, ZERO nutritional value, but it pushed everything through his digestive tract) and put him on California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato. Because his stools were already so terrible, and he was a mess already, I transitioned him very quickly, over only about 7-10 days time.
He was 100% solid for about 5 days, even with the occasional poop eating, and I really thought we had figured it out. Wrong. Out of nowhere the diarrhea came back with a vengence. I was not enjoying the ocean breath from the Herring food, and bought him Cali Nat Lamb and Rice after about a month. Oddly, after yet another switch, he was solid for about 4 days, and then back to diarrhea. I tried giving him a little yogurt for the probiotics with his PM feeding, and about a week ago, started him on a pretty strong probiotic from Animal Naturals. After buying Restore ProBiotic from Animal Naturals, he again was solid for a few days- then back to runny pudding poo.
This is Grissom's entire nutritional history. I do not do treats. I do RMBs as meal replacements on Sunday to help keep their teeth clean without issues.
I'm at a loss. It seems like every time I change something- he does a little better, then back to total diarrhea, usually bloody. Even on good days, his first poo in the morning will be solid, and they get gradually softer as the day goes on. he used to poo about three times a day (and this was on 3 meals a day as a puppy) and now he eats twice a day and poos probably about 6 or 7 times a day. He can not hold it through the night, he is having to say outside because they are already not welcome where I am living- my grandparents are tolerating it because they know I am moving in three months. However, diarrhea in the house is going to get him a one way ticket out of there. It's snowing at night, and although he has a insulated dog house that I built with my grandpa, I hate that he's out there. It's too cold.
I'm taking him back to the vet at 5pm today, and I guess having all the tests run again even though they came back clear last time. I'm pretty sure he'll recommend Science Diet and antibiotics, which goes against everything I know... but I need a solution, and I need it fast.
Champ, who is ALWAYS solid. ALWAYS. And has been solid throughout this whole two month ordeal, has total water poo today. The kind that splashes when it hits the ground. I'm on a very tight budget until the end of December, and I can't really afford to be running both of them to the vet all the time, nor can I afford to move out of where I'm at because my grandparents are on the verge of kicking the dogs out. I can NOT lose my boys, but with them alreayd not liking dogs, and now the dogs having diarrhea all over the place, I'm on a thin line.
ANY suggestions welcome. I will try just about anything at this point. I wish I could just put them on raw, I wish the guidelines where I'm living weren't so incredibly stupid. Unfortunate circumstances put me there, and I can't leave yet.