Puppy had diarrhea and then constipation

jboboxer · 10-09-2009, 09:31 AM

My 6 month old puppy has had diarrhea for a little while and it seems to be getting worse as yesterday I came home and she pooped in her crate, which she has never done before. The last two nights she had to go outside to poop only at night about 6 or 7 times throughout the night.
As I watch it it originally seemed like diarrhea, but now it looks like she's constipated and nothing is coming out.

The only change i can think of is we started to put her on advantage multi, but could it be something else?

Would giving her probiotic help?

heidiann · 10-17-2009, 04:57 PM

Did you introduce the new food correctly? Mixing the old with the new so her stomach has time to adjust?

Try some canned pumpkin (not pie filling, 100% pure pumpkin) it helps with both constipation and diarrhea. A tablespoon or two in her food should help.

Labsnothers · 10-17-2009, 07:48 PM

Could be the diarrhea cleaned her out and it will take a day or 2. Whatever you do, don't give a laxative. That can cause problems if there is a blockage.

jboboxer · 10-20-2009, 08:35 AM

I ended up reading as much as I could online for diarrhea and what most vets recommend in a natural way and combined a few of them. I didn't feed her for 24 hours, which normally she gets two meals a day, so I really just skipped dinner.

I gave her a probiotic on her empty stomach and then gave her pepto bismol chewables every two hours. Probably 5 tablets all together before she went to bed. Then when she woke up, I feed her again and with each meal I gave her a probiotic. She had solid stole that morning and every day since. I gave her probiotic with each meal for about a week.

I was actually amazed how fast her diahrea went away, since she had it for probably 3 or 4 nights and had to go out every few hours. I forgot to mention that I read some dogs just don't do good with certain vacinations or medication and if it's a topical medication that was put on the dog, to give the dog a bath right away even though the medication is already in their blood stream. So I forgot to mention that I also gave her a bath after reading that as well.

I'm just glad she's back to normal now