Kimbas_mum Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 Both yesterday and today one of my dogs has had really bad dire rear in the morning when they are left (for 3 hours). None of them seem to be under the weather and all their poos seem normal when I take them out the rest of the day. Normally I would just starve the one with the dodgy tummy then re-introduce easy food etc. The problem is, I have no idea which one of the 4 it is that is poorly. I can't seperate them to find out which one it is cos 2 of them have seperation problems and get really stressed if the pack is split up. So the question is, would you starve all 4 of them in the morning (mine only have 1 meal a day? or just leave them to it and hope that whoever it is will get it out of their system anyway, this was the option I was going for yesterday but having happened again today I am a bit more concerned (not bothered about the pooing itself - the wonders of tiled floors and really good air fans!!! just worried in case one of them has something nasty going on inside) Thanks for your ideas (or miracle cures!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranirottie Posted February 17, 2009 Report Share Posted February 17, 2009 I would treat them all as if they have it,it wont hurt them,but I would keep a tight eye on them when they go out to the garden as you may be able to spot which one it is. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimbas_mum Posted February 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Thanks for the response, I have ended up not feeding any of them this morning, not very popular!!! The strange thing is that they all seem to be poo-ing normally the rest of the time Oh well, I'm at the vets with 2 of them tomorrow so if no better I might just take them all in for a check up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendbert Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Over the last few weeks, both my boys had taken it in turn to have runny bum's so I starved them both for 24 hours and then they had a couple of days of rice & fish. I think there's lots of different bugs going around and the other day Sir H was loose in the evening but fine the next morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycas Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 (edited) I never starve mine if they have runny bums, I just give them a spoonful of bio yoghurt on the next meal or so. It seems to sort them out just as quickly, and with a lot less complaining than withholding food does (it's a major problem for me if my dogs are hungry during the day because I work from home and I really cannot have Mollydog screaming about the lack of breakfast in the background when I'm talking to clients or Az scraping his paw down my leg when I am trying to solve a tricky work problem.) On the only two occasions that it hasn't cleared up almost immediately, I add a scrambled egg as well. Scrambled egg bungs them up like nobody's business. Thinking on, I understand that the idea of starving is that it allows any bacterial infection in the gut to clear out. If you have 4 dogs and only one of them has got upset tum, then I would have thought that makes it quite unlikely that the problem is a bacterial infection or they'd all have it, so starving is probably not going to help there anyway. Edited February 18, 2009 by cycas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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