The Chappie club!! They should really make a puppy food.

Had a little laugh at Hedley today he cocked his leg for the first time! He usually just squats and I was expecting him to keep doing that for a good while longer!

hey i have just been to the vets with Roxy as was still a bit concerned about the amount of blood she was passing but the vet seems happy with her, said to keep the chappie going for at least 2-3 weeks and if the bleeding hasnt stopped he will do more tests. He said she was a healthy happy pup and if there was real cause for concern she would seem more ill.

He also said chappie was a great food and he dog had it from 8 weeks and is still on it... so if a vet will use it with his dog i figure it must be okay.

Good. Im going tomorrow. Its worrying me to death.

According to the other thread "how much protein should my dog have?" and the formula for making the wet food equivalent to the dry, Chappie is 23% protein which is lower than a puppy food, but as Rona has pointed out previously, he wouldnt be absorbing much of the higher protein food as the diarrhoea was making it go through so fast. He is STILL gaining weight well though, on the Chappie. Had him on the kitchen scales again!

With a small breed I wouldn't be too concerned

Thanks Rona, its not as if he is a working dog is it? He is supposed to be reducing my stress!

I'm a bit worried that you will change from Chappie after reading the other thread
Be it on your own head if you do

I will do nothing until I speak to the vet, also I am too scared to try anything else. I agree he needs some time to let his gut settle. I have thought about letting him have a raw bone instead of rawhide chews, because if he doesnt have these he just chews anything, eg Barbies leg, a book, a pen ... If it is within reach he will get it. I have read so much conflicting advice about bones though that I wont be risking it. I know that people are fond of stating that a vet knows nowt about nutrition, but they know a lot more about anatomy and physiology than we do, and they see a lot more sick animals than we do, so I do trust them.

Indeed. But there are more variables than Chappie having read this thread too. For example, was the Panacur administered when you got back from the vets, i.e. the day before the motions started to improve?

As I said it's up to you, but Chappie is far from a decent dog food and I've yet to see a puppy of ANY breed develop colitis due to being fed raw food. It's always the commercially fed dogs, and lots of them...

BTW Alyson you said: "We are going back to the vets on Thursday, but if anyone has found a food that causes constipation, please tell us!!!"

Raw meaty bones will certainly firm up his poo. Dogs fed raw meaty bones pass very small, rounded pellets consisting of nothing more than powdered bone. They are dry, virtually odourless, and most certainly never brown, "full" or sloppy. By all means wait for veterinary advice, but as I said you haven't much to lose and I'm pretty sure that a good RMB would improve this situation no end. Good luck either way.

I'm sorry but my dog has a very hardy constitution and a raw bone can upset his stomach as can chicken