Puppy advice. Glands..

[JraX]

hi, for the last week or so my puppy had a day of diarrhoea and then a few days of soft stools due to me trying to change her diet maybe too quickly. it didn’t go down well. I am very slowly adding fibre to her diet as well as using buddy & Lola super tummy instant (amazing stuff btw) her stools have firmed up very well over the past 2 days. But now she has this fishy smell from her back end. Is that because her glands are now flushing out naturally again? Or do I need to take her vets to have them manually flushed? Many thanks for any advice

How old is your puppy? New food has to be introduced incredibly slowly - over weeks, not days. It’s entirely possible she’s having a reaction to the ‘amazing stuff.’ Looking at the ingredients, I’m not surprised your poor girl had a back end that stinks of fish! Poor girl.

Puppies don’t need fibre they need protein and calcium primarily. So whatever you’re doing has almost certainly caused this. A good quality puppy food needs no supplements or ‘added fibre.’

Take her to the vet.

cheers for the snappy response, just what I need when asking politely for advice. And for your information the amazing stuff was to stop the initial diarrhoea, recommended by a vet and it did just that. Within hours. Read my post again, her poops have returned to normal I’m asking about her glands. READ PROPERLY BEFORE COMMENTING

@JraX I did. I fail to believe a vet would proscribe something so clearly damaging to dogs tbh.

Best of luck with your puppy - I hope the unnecessary supplements haven't seriously damaged her digestion and your failure to properly transition her over to proper food has no long lasting side effects. All of this was caused by you. So instead of getting annoyed at me, perhaps reflect on your dog ownership ability.

Op, I think you may need to go back to vets and get the glands manually released. My dog suffers with this occasionally. I think certain dogs are more prone to this.

@JraX Nope. Just someone who constantly watches people ruin their dogs and has been dealing with it for 20+ years. I offered good advice. Stop feeding your dog medication it doesn't need and see a proper professional.

The vet said other than the upset from new food
Yes, that you caused through your negligence. Your dog wouldn't have needed the stuff that's now clearly effecting her badly if you hadn't cocked up to start with. It's a rookie error that even a novice owner shouldn't be making.

'Raw feed nutters.' Sigh. As it is, I do feed two of my five dogs raw. Different food works for different dogs...which any competent dog owner should know.

Clocking out now. Wish your puppy all the best, with an owner like you I'm sure it'll be up on Battersea soon.

haha knew it, I knew you was one of those “raw is the answer to all problems” lol. Explains everything I need to know about your kind of advice.

Errrr...you're comprehension leaves something to be desired, doesn't it?😂

I feed raw to 2 out of FIVE dogs. That's less than half of my dogs. Because, as I said, different dogs have different needs.

Jeepers.

I thought you was logging out….

@TheHungryHungryLandsharks you've made your point and you have nothing further to add to this thread so why do you keep posting? 👋🏻

It's hard not to argue with someone who so clearly knows so little - I do genuinely care about dogs, and I am actually quite worried about the future prospects of yours.

Thank you, she has a follow up on Monday so will see what they say. she was hesitant too manually express them at the first appointment as she thinks now the poop has firmed up they will express themselves. To be honest as of today so far the fishy smell isn’t obvious. Fingers crossed the last day and a half was just a case of them expressing themselves after the soft stools.

@TheHungryHungryLandsharks

I think you are being overly harsh here, there's no need to speak to the OP like that. Either offer helpful advice or move on. She did not come here to be berated.

@CitizenZ@pilates I was very polite in my first post. OP has risked doing incredible damage to her puppy and seemed to have not realised. I pointed out that the supplements have almost certainly made the situation worse, and that the ingredients of said supplements have probably caused the smell and that puppies do not need fibre supplements (and I am genuinely horrified a vet recommended any sort of supplements instead of suggesting OP revert back to the puppies previous diet - which is what a good vet would do). OP then had a go at me, and I became defensive.

Puppies do not need fibre supplements, or additional fibre. They need less than 5% of their diet to be fibre (higher in adult dogs or those that you're trying to 'slim down'). In fact too fibre much can cause irrevocable damage - puppies not being able to absorb enough nutrients, can in term lead to life-long issues (particularly a problem in larger breeds, or those prone to joint issues). This isn't a light-hearted issue and should really be taken incredibly seriously which is why my advice was as honest as it was - softening the fact that this, if not corrected, could cause long-term issues does no one any favours including the puppy who if they continue to be given far too much fibre, and fed incorrectly, will be in for life-long health complications and I am sure none of us want to see that.

@JraX I'm not being vile, I'm being honest about the damage you could have done as I have been throughout you just didn't like the fact that I was honest about the risk you have run with your puppy.

The fact you have still not addressed just what extra fibre you are giving her - which is almost certainly the cause of all these issues tbh - is indicative of you. That and your computer style hysterics about raw feeding and inability to read what I have actually write (2/5 dogs - which is not even half, and yet you still went on about how I'm a nutter).

I might have called you an incompetent owner, but you have called me some pretty repulsive (and offensive) names.

Let’s just agree to disagree, the fibre didn’t start till after all this, and again the tiny amount she had certainly hasn’t sent her poops soft again. You will be surprised to hear that I will follow your advice on the fibre, she hated the pellets anyway and the very very tiny amount she had she managed to push aside. So they won’t be added again. You’ve failed to address the fact that after this diet change hiccup my pup is now doing well and her poops are fine again. And we all know as dog owners that the poop says an awful lot about doggy digestive health. So whatever happened when the new food was introduced it couldn’t have been too damaging for her poop to be normal again. My question was purely about her glands being able to self express or not after this upset tummy episode. You went in way too deep accusing me of basically slowly killing my puppy!!

How old is the puppy? What variety? Puppy diarrhea is very common. I've had dogs since I was a kid..we had a phalane,vet used to manually empty anal glands,omg the smell in the car. We have 2 border collies, one is 11, and one 2. When she gets frightened,by say a load noise, she will scent, and it smells exactly like fish. There's no fish in their diet. Might need a picture of said puppy.

She’s a Cavapoo, so quite sensitive pups or so I hear! 12 weeks just over. Gaining weight perfectly so the vet says. So all in all it was just whether the glands will naturally express after a bout of soft stool or whether they will need doing, however since writing my OP the fishy smell isn’t there today. And yes I remember my aunties dog had an awful time with her glands, she was an English bulldog and would go the length of the house dragging her bum!