She's 12 weeks old %26 has been having diarrhea %26 loose stool for the past few days. Should I stop giving her food for a day %26 just give her water?
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Hi there I am a Veterinarian Technician and hope to help! Congratulations on your new puppy!! How exciting!!! There are two things I suggest you do. First, please collect a stool sample (plastic bags are just fine!) and bring it to your vet for them to run an in-house fecal exam for parasites AND a Giardia Snap-Test. It should cost you no more than $25 and you should know the results in about 10-20 minutes. In the mean time it is best to fast your puppy for 24 hours. No food, no treats, no bones, no toys she can break pieces off of. Offer her water often so she does not get dehydrated. Puppies and dogs need a full 24 hours to rid the body of diahrrea. Once the 24 hours is up, I recommend feeding her a bland-diet. You can either pick up some Canine I/D at your vet or (if you don't mind cooking!) you can make chicken and rice or hamburg and rice. Please rinse off ALL the fat before boiling (you should boil the chicken/hamburg and the rice in the same pot). You feed this bland-diet until your puppy has a solid bowel movement. If your puppy is still having diahrrea after fasting for 24 hours then call your Vet and let him'her know what is going on. They will most likely prescribe Metronidazole. Metronidazole is a medication that you will pair with a bland-diet (again) to get rid of the loose stool. I hope this helps! Good luck!
You should call your vet. Puppies can dehydrate very quickly. You need to bring her in and see why she is having the diarrhea.
any throwing up, check her for parvo
You should take her to the vet, since it's been going on for a few days. A one time deal would've been no real cause for concern. She might have parasites, parvo, posioning (although that usually results in throwing up) or something.
Try chicken stock and cooked rice -- the stock will give her nutrients and the rice will 'bind her back up'. Do this for about 5 days -- BUT if she does not stop the diarrhea within a day or so, please take her to the Vet. Could be a number of things. Did you change her food brand?
Cooked rice/rice water. Will soothe the stomach and will help her from getting dehydrated. You should be mindfull of parvo. It may be necessary to take the pup to a vet. I had a pup die from parvo. It is very fast acting.
Hello, you can try that for a day or two, plain old white rice water is also good to use, then slowly add in the rice if that works for another day or 2..but with puppies, it's often new foods or worms, they often have worms from the nursing %26 you have to check FRESH stools to see the worms, then your best bet is too see the vet, some worms can be deadly to dogs, that have to be diagnosed first by a vet .. also dogs can be given pepto bismal...small dogs half a tab every 12 hours for only a day..also check to see if the puppy is chewing on anything or any plants it shouldn't..beings they chew just about anything they can..Take Care :)
Call your vet; they will probably want to see her. Could be start of parvo.
You should not stop feeding her, but you may need to change what you feed her. You definitely need to take her to the vet soon. She could dehydrate on you making her even worse. Puppies dehydrate quickly, so act fast.
Take her to the vet.
At that age they do not have enough reserves to keep them going for days without food. I would get her to the vets as soon as possible for some IV fluids and any other treatment that may be needed. Starving an adult dog if it has an upset tum is often all it needs to allow the tummy to settle but you need to find out what the underlying cause is here. Has the pup had any shots yet?
see your vet diarrhoea can kill a pup.he will prob give it canakur which you can buy on Internet a lot cheaper.they usually tell you boiled rice n chicken no milk lots of water
With puppies they can become critical very very quickly, I would normally seek out a vet within 24 hours of Big D starting, with pups yo son't want to stop teeding
get her to a vet so they can determine why she has
Yes you need to get the little one to the vet,it could be parvo
or somekind of worm ,being that he's a puppy you shouldn't wait.They have a very hard time fighting things off after they get sick.Oh I do wish you the best of LUCK with it,I'm such
an animal lover,good Luck.
are u feeding her twice a day if you are not you should and give her water twice a day too let her in at night and if this does not help take her to the vet urgently
and try feeding her Bil Jac dog food
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