diarrhoea in 6 month old puppy, to go to vet? or simply treat with rice?

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otherwise she is as right as rain.
yellow mucousy with blood poo,
diarrhoea turning increasingly brown, which is a good sign surely?
then this morning after treating her with rice and her usual complete biscuits, yellow again.
google scaremongers and I expect if I didn't have google I would just treat.

I would treat it as a wait and see. By lunchtime you'll know if you need to go to the vet.

Hope he gets better soon. Also I wouldn't feed him for the rest of the day.

diarrhoea started on Monday evening btw. so yesterday was a wait and see, but I hadn't thought about starving, I just thought rice.

yes fully vaccinated and next monthly worming due in 9 days. so I would say wormed.

If there is blood, vet, definitely.

was blood but not now.

I was told by vet to worm my puppy every two weeks??

it is a monthly thingummy

My vet always recommends starving for 24 hours as an initial treatment. It gives the digestive system a chance to calm down and take strain off of it.

Blood at any point I always recommend and examination.
I prescribe to the more modern way of thinking that does not use starving or bland diets. This way of thinking is that the fastest way to restore a gut to normal is to keep feeding the regular diet if it is merely dietary indescretion.

just like with children lonecat.

vet very costly, did go, and because she was fine in herself, she will be fine, just ate something vet reckoned. and she said starve for 12 hours, so now I know.
thanks all

Glad he's okay

*she

oh thanks, that would be cheaper than the vet's offering tin

Recently discovered Wainwright's Salmon and Potato (Pets at Home own brand) as a bland offering.

I just looked up this thread as TopPup has an iffy belly today
lonecat I am so upset I never came across the phrase "dietary indiscretion" when BlackDog was still alive- it has a far more decorous ring to it than "oh she ate some cow shit" :o