bellicose14

first i would like to say thanks to all for this site you pack it with alot of info.so heres the scoop,get my puppy and got him on purina proplan chicken,he eats three times a day about 40%wet 60%dry,so when i first get him his stools are runny and im thinking cause he is switching over well they get better nice and solid and then my lil man gets a infected toenail and gets on some meds the vet told me if his stools get to runny take him off,my pup was blowing poop out the rear like a hose so i took him off the meds,its been about a week and he still has runny poop!any help woulb be great.thanks.

koonce272

It may take a bit longer, especially being on a not so good food. Id first think about changing your food, it may not be the leading factor but it may cause the runs for a few more days than a better food would. Keep his diet regular and give it a bit more. It took my pup atleast 2 weeks after changing food before his poop was back to normal.

bahamutt99

He may just not be doing well on that food. Has he been vaccinated for diseases like Parvo? That could be a concern as well.

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keelahsMOM

does he have allergies???

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Maximus146

Provided he's not ill and doesn't have worms...maybe he just has some allergies.
Max went months with loose stools, sometimes they were projectile and watery...until i got him on Taste Of The Wild.
He has some wheat allergies....and it took about three days on that food and he was "cured"...lol.
I swear, i never thought i'd find something that would give him solid poop...but it works.
Its expensive but worth it.

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Sampsons Dad

I never give my dogs canned food as they always get loose stools and bad gas from it.
Plus canned food sticks to the teeth and causes plaque build up and bad breath.

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keelahsMOM

i dont know if any one ever heard this or not but it really works.... when my baby get loose stools I give her a table spoon of canned pumpkin. it sounds weird but it works in like 5 minutes. Just thought i would put it out there.

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trutildeath360

it may well be the meds but you say you have him off them for a week so im thinking it may be the quality of food your giving him..i went through the same thing with the loose stools until i found a quality food that my boy likes.....
for the loose stool you can give him some over the counter medicine like immodium ad or something like that and if it continues for more than 3 days i would take him to the vet........

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keelahsMOM

Can you really give dogs medicine like that?? If so i never knew that.

Roxy_Nie

Zoe had a problem with her stools when we first got her. We found out she had some kind of stomach bug(don't remember the name). They gave antibotics and told me to give her pepcid ac to calm her stomach. It work for us.

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trutildeath360

yeah..my dog had the runs a while ago . he was young so i got worried and called the vet..she said he can have medicine like that but half the dose..and only for 3 days then if it didnt stop to bring him in to the vets....

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keelahsMOM

i'll have to remember that thank you for the info!

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MY MIKADO

I would take him off the wet food first and see if that helpsclear up the runny stools. If it doesn't you could cook him up brown rice and boil hamburger or chicken and give him that if the stool clears up you know that the food is the problem. You can then talk to a vet and do research to find a food that will work for you. Maybe stick with a rice formula.

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matias_pit

Reading the previous replies maybe you should take in count that if he took some antibiotics to his infecction it will be helping the presentation of runny stools to, so if you took those off already, I will use just the dry food, or a light food for a week some like beef and rice, and then get back to the dry food only, if the runny stools persist you must take him to the vet, maybe he is allergic,or got parasites, or got some parvo, remember that your dog can get diseases even being vaccinated when he is a puppy, so never is too much to take him to the vet to be sure he isn´t on any harmful situation. I hope he get better soon, is really sad for a careful owner to see a puppy ill.

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bellicose14

sorry it took me so long to respond my computer was down,anyway i cut out the wet food mostly and just got him on the dry and it worked great,my lil man is dropping solid ones again.again thanks to everyone who dropped some advice.