Gretchen gave us a scare, but all is well

rockhillmanor wrote:

Dashonthedash wrote:
Glad to hear that Gretchen is OK. So far, I haven't noticed any cysts on Hannah. Shadow has a continual problem with loose stools, even without antibiotics, and even Forti-flora hasn't cleared it up. Diarrhea is rare, but all his stools are loose. I have tried changing foods (gradually), but that usually makes it worse, so I wind up going back to his "usual" food.

I too came from the era that as soon as a dog had diarrhea you were told to stop giving them their 'normal' food and switch to ground beef and cottage cheese, etc.

Took me a lot of years of obeying this advice until I moved and had another vet. His advice was 'fast' them for a day or two, quit giving them more food to 'feed' the bacteria. And he believed that drastically changing the food on onset just added to the viscous cycle.

Gotta tell you the fasting DOES WORK. I have no problem now of battling runny stools for days and days on end anymore. First sign of loose stools they don't get fed. And within 24 hours it is cleared up.