My dog Axel

[Cici7465]

Hi Everyone:
in November of 2013 I became the proud owner of a 2 year old frenchie. He is awesome, sweet, hard headed, weird and totally spoiled.
Several months ago he started having diarrehia. Our vet has done blood work, x-rays, stool analysis, etc...
We think we have the issue resolved and then are surprised when it starts again. he is currently on hills w/d food, but to no avail....the issue persists.
Please help!!!!

 

[Cbrugs]

How much do you feed him per day? I assume the vet has checked for parasites? Also, have you tried to change his food as it could be the food giving him diarrhea. You can try to give him 1 tablespoon of pure pumpkin each day (not the pie filling).

 

[Alice Kable]

Hello and welcome to FBN. We would love to see pictures of your Axel. The first thing I would do is put your boy on a bland diet. I would cook extra lean ground beef or ground turkey. By extra lean I mean 93/7 or 95/5 % fat. Mix that with cooked white rice, 25% meat to 75% white rice. Feed that until the diarrehea stops. Then I would look for a limited ingredient dog kibble, we feed Nature's Variety Instinct Limited Ingredient Turkey to one dog who has bad food allergies, and NVI Ltd. Ingredient Lamb to the other. Gradually switch Axel to the kibble, starting out with 75% bland 25% kibble. Gradually increase the amount of kibble, using less bland over a period of a week or 10 days. Hopefully that will take care of his problem!

 

[2bullymama]

agree --- how much are you feeding? Could be too much food, but overall HILLS is not good for long term use. It is good to help with an illness short term, but it is mostly filler -- as Alcie suggested find a good limited ingredient foog

 

[winginit66]

Good advice from these ladies!

 

[davidh]

I agree, cut back on the food intake a little to see if that helps, also I agree to try a different food, the Science Diet isn't a very good food. I always say iif it has "corn" in the ingredients, put it back on the shelf.

 

[blushy]

I agree, cut back on the food intake a little to see if that helps, also I agree to try a different food, the Science Diet isn't a very good food. I always say iif it has "corn" in the ingredients, put it back on the shelf.

^A dog food nutritionalist told us that unless your dog has serious health problems or your vet tells you to feed that 100% (her chihuahua has seizures & science diet is the only food it can eat successfully) then avoid it.

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What foods have you tried?

I would say at this point if you haven't gotten an allergy test, I would.
Diarrhea isn't pleasant and I'm sure you'd like to find a food that is good for Axel!