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Hi all, so the peas had the most impact on his stool but not enough for me to conclude that it is the culprit of his soft stool that he had since, essentially, we adopted him. The stool changed colour, as could be expected when changing a major ingredient of his diet, and it was a little "wet"...

Hi everyone, quick update. Still on the Royal Canin Hypoallergenic kibble. His stool has been completely normal since starting this food as mentioned in a previous post, and the absolute foul smell of his poop was gone. I have been continuing the pumpkin with added probiotics, morning and...

Yeah, that's good advice. I may try adding it to his pumpkin and see if he eats it. Not sure I want to introduce any new food during this trial even though baby food is a good choice for a pure food.. Any thoughts on quantities of probiotics or SB? This has never been absolutely clear to me.

Actually, my dealing with diarrhea became part of routine...a pain in the rear (no pun intended), but totally doable and it just became "normal" routine. Benny is awesome...he actually announces when it's time to go and usually waits for one of us, so staying on top of his poop and ensuring he...

Hi everyone, I have been absent for a while because after my last post, we continued on the LID turkey diet but as I was running out, I decided to contact Natures' Variety Instinct myself to get an update on the availability of the rabbit, which was a novel protein for Benny. I learned they...

It's been over a week since we stopped administering the Metronidazole. First couple of days after stopping, stool seemed normal. Unfortunately, since then, it has been a combination of normal and soft unformed, usually in the same bowel movement, with the first bit firm and darker, and the...

Congrats on the house move! Hopefully it was a positive move and experience. Oh boy, what a ride this had been. So decided to get more meds to up to 21 day course from 14 day, and his stool got worse in first half of this week. I think the administration of the meds, even though I...

Well, kinda at my wits end. 14 days of meds, and it seems he hasn't fully kicked this. Tonight, last day of meds, and his stool started firm and darker, but ended with about a tablespoon of loose unformed lighter tan colour stool, with minor traces of blood. Ugh. So, likely means giving him...

Hi everyone, So we are on day 12 of antibiotics. Generally his stools have been firm with the odd one having a tiny bit of soft stool at the end or the last part of firm piece being a bit more wet and lighter tan colour...akin to the colour of the diarrhea he had. What I have noticed is this...

Hello Miamha, thanks for letting me know about the side effects you experienced with the anti-biotics. Good to know and gives me some comfort that perhaps this might be temporary, although he was scratching occasionally before. And your description of what they do is so true!! Benny also...

Hi pipperoo, I am happy to report that Benny has had 3 firm stools in a row over 3 days. That is a first in the 6 months we have had him (6 months exactly tomorrow). Thing is, the first of 3 was about 4 hours after his first dose of antibiotics, and vet said that usually takes 24 hours to take...

Thx. But looked at many of these already, and one you suggested is the one I indicated I am currently feeding him...the Instinct LID. Unfortunately, none of the others work because they are not truly limited ingredient ie. more than one protein, or are not novel for Benny. 100% Rendered Free...

He's not having chicken, so I will presume you mean poultry in general. Would love to find a quality limited ingredient novel protein food. But novel for Benny would have to NOT include chicken, turkey duck salmon lamb. And all the so called limited ingredient, are really not that at all...

Oh, I also forgot to mention that she raised IBD and said that he is not showing any signs of it, and in fact, showing signs opposite of it. So she ruled that out.

Hi everyone, Update. Results of Comprehensive PCR are back....good news bad news. Good news, I suppose depending on how you look at it, is the test found a positive hit, which gives us a path forward to potentially address the diarrhea. The first of two positive hits that does so is finding a...