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Originally Posted by Burrowzig
First, has your vet tested for campylobacter? This could cause the symptoms.
If there is no campylobacter, it is likely to be a food intolerance. The commonest ones are to wheat, soya, less often maize and poultry - but it could be anything. You will have to experiment. You could start with lamb which is usually safe, or white fish, cooked with brown rice, add a vitamin supplement. Your pet shop should be able to get you a box of frozen minced lamb for dogs - or better use fresh human quality if you can afford it. Feed that for a few days and see if there is any improvement. At first you will probably have to give it extra time for any irritation in the gut to settle down. Once you have found a basic diet that doesn't cause bad poos, start gradually introducing new foods, different meats or vegetables, just one at a time, and give it a couple of weeks before trying something else new. If anything triggers the bad poos again, go back to the basic diet and let it settle again before trying anything else.
That there was an improvement with JWB is a good clue - it is gluten free. I feed my dog another gluten free food, made more palatable by mixing with a gravy made from Webbox chubs (those plastic wrapped sausage-shaped tubes of food, from Asda, much cheaper than cans) as it's gluten free too, mashed up with warm water, then mix in the dry food so it's all coated.
Drinking dirty water could also be a trigger. Don't let your dog drink from puddles.
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No vet didn't really test for anything. She occasionally gets a slurp out of a puddle before I can stop her, but I generally catch her pretty quick now, but she also swims in ponds alot. If this is causing it, is there anything I can do? (She SO loves to swim!). Maybe a probiotic to help?
The food allergy was also crossing my mind, especially as she can't cope with cheap sausages (chock full of "fillers" surely) and when we went to a christening recently and she scarfed a load of sausage roles/buffet food from the kids (stopped them as soon as I caught them doing it) but she was really bad for about 2 days!
I saw a food called CSJ Champ with lots of testimonials for dogs with ongoing digestion problems, they do a wheat and gluten free version, and a herbal suplement to aid dogs with problem digestion systems. Has anyone heard of it? Actually tried it out? Any good?