Hello doggy parents. My puppy born January 17 2017, had a sudden bout of uncontrollable diarrhea and fatigue a couple weeks ago. I freaked out thinking it might be parvo even though he has had the vaccine 4 times. So I took him to the vet and his parvo test was negative thank goodness. It started on a Friday and I took him in on Monday when they opened so it was going on all weekend. Then they sent in a fecal test for giardia and treated him with two medications but it was negative for anything. That Monday after I brought him home he wasn't out of control anymore. But he has been still having loose stools, very loose, ever since. When the fecal sample came back negative they just told me there are a lot of reasons puppies have diarrhea. I love it when vets do that after you've paid them a bunch. "Could be anything. Dunno."
When I was waiting for the fecal test results to come back and doing research on giardia I calculated that he started having these symptoms 8 or 9 days after going to doggy daycare for the first time (and only time) at PetSmart. It's possible that affected him. I wasn't real impressed by them bringing up "stress" as a possible cause when it was such a sudden and violent onset and nothing had changed in his life except for one day in dog daycare NINE days before.
Please let me know if you have any ideas, or if you had a similar experience and it was resolved. Ever since adoption April 1st, he has been on Science Diet Puppy Healthy Development and I considered changing his food but I don't see how that could be the cause seeing as he was perfectly fine and then suddenly hit with something that seemed more like a sickness. I don't want to make it worse by changing food. TIA
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Also I want to add that I feed him 3 1/2 cups per day because he is almost 40 lbs and the package recommends 4 cups per day for a 40 pound puppy under nine months of age. I feed him three times per day, 1 cup in the morning, 1 at lunch, and 1 1/2 for dinner. I have adjusted the food per the package guidelines his whole life since I got him.
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When it first started it looked more like constipation. He was trying and trying and unable to go. Now, just yesterday, I saw him straining and unable to go again. Also, I am seeing some poops in the yard that look normal and some that don't. So it's not consistent: diarrhea, constipation, normal. Also just fyi, I do not have grass in the yard, it's rock landscaping. I don't leave him alone ever, but he comes and goes from the yard. I have never seen him eating the rocks. On the fecal scoring chart on this site http://www.akc.org/content/health/articles/doggie-diarrhea/ he is at a 6 (but there are some out there that look like a 2 also).
When I was waiting for the fecal test results to come back and doing research on giardia I calculated that he started having these symptoms 8 or 9 days after going to doggy daycare for the first time (and only time) at PetSmart. It's possible that affected him. I wasn't real impressed by them bringing up "stress" as a possible cause when it was such a sudden and violent onset and nothing had changed in his life except for one day in dog daycare NINE days before.
Please let me know if you have any ideas, or if you had a similar experience and it was resolved. Ever since adoption April 1st, he has been on Science Diet Puppy Healthy Development and I considered changing his food but I don't see how that could be the cause seeing as he was perfectly fine and then suddenly hit with something that seemed more like a sickness. I don't want to make it worse by changing food. TIA
ps
Also I want to add that I feed him 3 1/2 cups per day because he is almost 40 lbs and the package recommends 4 cups per day for a 40 pound puppy under nine months of age. I feed him three times per day, 1 cup in the morning, 1 at lunch, and 1 1/2 for dinner. I have adjusted the food per the package guidelines his whole life since I got him.
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When it first started it looked more like constipation. He was trying and trying and unable to go. Now, just yesterday, I saw him straining and unable to go again. Also, I am seeing some poops in the yard that look normal and some that don't. So it's not consistent: diarrhea, constipation, normal. Also just fyi, I do not have grass in the yard, it's rock landscaping. I don't leave him alone ever, but he comes and goes from the yard. I have never seen him eating the rocks. On the fecal scoring chart on this site http://www.akc.org/content/health/articles/doggie-diarrhea/ he is at a 6 (but there are some out there that look like a 2 also).
