Puppy has colitis

[meandmygirl1]

Hi our 12 week puppy has had looser poos over the last week or so and today had blood in them so took her to vets to get her checked. She is pooing at least 10-12 times a day. Vet has given her antibiotics for 2 week. She was on autarky but she was not putting on weight so moved her to bakers puppy food. Looking for advice as feel doing everything wrong but with best intentions. What should i feed her, how much and how often? She is a border collie and full of beans and life otherwise

[daisydotandgertie]

Bakers isn't ideal - I really wouldn't feed that, especially not to a pup with a poorly tum.

Have you starved her for 12 hours yet? What did the vet say to do in tandem with the abs? Where is she with worming?

She need something bland eg www.simpsonspremium.com/puppy-dog-food/puppy-sensitive-salmon this to end up on.

[ClaimedByMe]

Step away from the Bakers it is the dog equivalent of feeding your children mcdonalds every day.

My mum had this with her puppy, also on bakers from the breeders, after trying many treatments and expensive foods tins of chappie on the vets reccomendation is finally what helped settled his tummy, he is now on a mix of chappie and barking heads, he cant have any grains in his diet as that is a trigger.

[pud1]

My boxer has had colitis for a few years. He is exercised regularly but when he has a flare up I find additional exercise helps. I don't know why. My dad also suffers and he told me that it helps him.

[meandmygirl1]

No the vet said should clear up. Should I change her food again? I read plain rice and chicken? Also chappie? Not sure what to do as the original pet food was expensive n high quality n made no difference? V confused

[ClaimedByMe]

The chappie is binding, to this day, and he is four now if he doesn't have chappie his poos aren't formed, my mum couldn't believe that it worked after all the expensive top of the range dog foods!

[daisydotandgertie]

Autarky puppy has its first ingredient listed as maize. I would find a food - eg the one I linked to - to move onto which doesn't contain grains for now. The problem could be a bug and nothing to do with the food though.

What did she come home on?

For now, I would skip a meal to calm her gut down, then move her to either chicken and rice, or a scrambled egg (nothing at all added) for a couple of meals. Then I would move her onto half size portions of decent puppy food (not bakers) for a couple of meals. Make sure she is drinking well - and perhaps add some glucose to her water.

See how she is on that.

Did the vet also give you pro kolin or a pro biotic paste?

[Tipsykisses]

Sorry to hear about your pup op , have you looked into dog foods and the ingredients some brands use ?
Bakers is really not good for dogs .

We had no end of trouble with one of ours , spent a fortune on vet visits & different foods .

I researched so much & found out about what goes into the commercial dog foods so then switched to Millie's wolfheart & within 2 days had a solid poo !!

All our dogs are on Millie's now & I'd never feed anything else !

[ffallada]

How is your pup today?

You are going through what we went through with our border collie pup - it can be a bit distressing watching them poo down to the mucus then blood. As the vet has probably told you, as long as the blood is red its not so much of a problem (although not great!). It means that your pup has strained and burst a blood vessel. If the poo turns black it means there is old blood in there and something different / worse is going on.

A rule of thumb regarding dog food -- if you can buy it in Tesco its unlikely to be good for the dog. Dogs love Bakers cause it is full of sugar and colouring, like smarties before they took out all the E numbers.

Chappie didn't work for our dog.

What does work is a bit labour intensive, but totally worth it, as our bcollie still gets an upset tummy at times.

When the runny poos start we starve him for 24 hrs (yours is just a wee pup so 12 hours is about right) to allow the stomach time to empty itself. Then we feed him on a bland diet until the poos harden - this is overly boiled rice (half an hour in a simmering pan) this takes the starch out the rice and makes it look really nasty - like the gloop in oliver twist. And we mix through that a protein like chicken, tinned tuna, or scrambled egg (whatever we have an excess of in the cupboard). Once poos are back to normal, start adding in the kibble over a couple of meals until you are completely back onto a normal diet.

We couldn't get a kibble to settle with our bcollie, so ended up feeding him Royal Canin Vet diet (we were at our wits end and thought we would be cooking rice for him forever) - its really really expensive but properly hypoallergenic. After getting him settled on that for a few months we were then able to introduce a much cheaper (but still good kibble).

If you can get your pup onto a kibble that works don't change it!

[meandmygirl1]

Thanku so much everyone. We have a great local pet shop that i should have asked as the man who owns it has border collies and we going to his puppy training classes. We went there today and they were so kind. She is on their own premier dry puppy food and she got to try different flavours. She had not pooed since having the food but am so used to it being every 30mins it is a bit strange. She has been sleeping since 8pm n when she wakes to give her wee meal before bed. She has stolen our hearts without us realising!! The antibiotics should help as well. Thank u

[marne2]

My pup had awful colitis when we got him, at one point he was put on a drip as vet thought he might have parvovirus ( luckily it wasn't ), he was given a probiotic paste from the vets as well as antibiotics. It took us a long time to find a food that gave him solid poo's, after scouring the internet and talking to several vets I found that chappie was recommended for colitis, I thought chappie was the cheapest of the cheap so was anxious about using it but we gave it ago and within days we had almost solid poo's. We then slowly introduced a dry food and he is now on dry all the time ( poos are solid ). It did take a long time for him to recover but now he doesn't seem to react to other foods as much ( he has the odd treat ).

[meandmygirl1]

Hi she is definitely improving and putting on weight. The pooing is getting less and much more solid. I am keeping a poo diary lol. We are down to 7 poos a day from about 14.
She is full of life and am getting less worried. Thanku all for all the advice. It is much appreciated

[meandmygirl1]

Poos are decreasing in number slowly - down to 8 a day now!!

[KiwiJude]

Glad to hear poos are decreasing, what a worry these pups can be :) Our puppy had text book colitis symptoms. I tweaked his diet a little and took him off what I thought was a high-ish protein (27%) premium wet food that we had been mixing with his premium dry food (also 27%). I substituted the premium wet food for a cheapie supermarket brand with a protein level of 7%, added in regular chicken necks and within four poos was much improved, yay for a formed stool! :)

[meandmygirl1]

Down to 4 poos a day yippee