Loose Stool

For the past 3 weeks to a month Finn has had diarrhea and we're having trouble pin pointing the cause. We started switching his food by slowly mixing in the new kind and he was fine, then after getting neutered the vet put him on antibiotics as well as glucosamine supplements for his hips and next thing we know he has diarrhea. We finished the food switch so he is now eating only the new food, then we stopped the antibiotics and I even cut back on the supplements giving him half a tablet instead of a whole one and he still has loose stool. I've now stopped the supplements for the time being and tried adding yogurt to his meals and nothing helps. He had one or two semi normal stools over the past week but the rest are not so good. I don't know if his system has still not recovered from the antibiotics, if the supplements were to blame or if it's his new food even though it didn't bother him until about the same time he started taking the antibiotics. Any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Susan Stanton on June 26, 2009 at 6:54am

Never a dull moment with Finn, I guess. I wonder what's up with the peeing? How old is he? When Bertie was young and learning control, I lived in an apartment building, and I had to carry him outside upside down sometimes, because if he saw anyone he knew as we were exiting, he would get excited and pee. But he grew out of that, although it took a while. By the time he was closing in on a year (10 months or so), that stopped being a problem.

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Permalink Reply by Alice on June 27, 2009 at 12:49am

He's 9 months. Maybe it is excitment. My first thought would be a bladder infection I don't see any other signs such as dark urine or bad oder. Our vet told us before that bladder infections are very uncommon in males anyway. Can food effect urination at all? He really has been a handful. Maybe when the rest of his litter passed away and he was the only survivor we should have been suspicious but he melted our hearts and really, he's worth it. :)

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Permalink Reply by Boo Buchheit on June 26, 2009 at 12:04pm

I've read that feeding unspiced pumpkin helps. I have never had the problem so have never tried it. You can buy it in a can in the baking section I think.

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Permalink Reply by Susan Stanton on June 27, 2009 at 8:00pm

Poor Finn, I didn't realize he was the lone litter survivor. Geeze, if he was an elderly man we could suggest getting his prostate checked (hahahahahahaha), but I don't really know about urinary issues. I suppose just ruling out an infection can't hurt (needless to say, I think my vet was able to renovate his house because I ALWAYS zip in there with my questions/concerns). Let us know if he gets past this next hurdle!

And Boo is right about the pumpkin -- it's weird stuff, good for both diarrhea AND constipation! But be sure to get canned pumpkin, not fiilling for pumpkin pie, which will be filled with spices and additives (as Boos says, too).