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Old 27-12-2008, 02:15 PM
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Colitis in puppy

Hi, can anyone advise?
On christmas day morning our 11 week old pup started passing blood in his motions, obviously we went straight to our vets who diagnosed colitis and gave him an antibiotic and anti nausea injection and we left with him with antibiotic tablets and a bulking agent.
Since then he's been fine, with no further occurence. We've stopped giving him the bulking agent as his poo's are very solid now and don't want to cause the opposite problem!
What I'm worried about is his food intake. Under the vets advise we gave him nothing until tea time christmas day (turkey and potatoes), and are feeding him small amounts of the same since. But he seems absolutely starving, I feed him and he eats then wanders about looking for more.
The vet advised less food for 3-4 days then gradully return to normal food (James Wellbeloved puppy). But it's really hard to know how much "less food" is compared to his normal kibble!
Do I increase his food or just carry on for another 2 days with a hungry pup? What do people think?
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