[MY OSCAR]

Originally Posted by ryssann

we have had rosco for a month now. He came to us on puppy chow. I purchased orijen puppy, and slowly transitioned him. In the middle of the transition, he started having loose stools with mucus. We took him to the vet, she didn't think the food transition was the cause of the loose stools, and put him on a wormer. He did test negative, but i gave it to him. Things seemed to get better, and then it started all over again. I changed to now puppy, it has no grains and nothing rendered. Supposed to be a very mild food. Things seemed to get better, but he was only eating about half if that of what was recommended. There were meals that he skipped entirely. I went back to the store and got evanger's canned duck. I put less than a teaspoon in with the kibble and stir it in so that every kibble had some on it. He ate it right up, and was so excited for the next feeding. Well, the loose stools are back. Not every time, and every morning stool is fine, and has been since the beginning.

So, do i eliminate the canned, and figure he will eat when he is hungry?
Take him back to the vet and worm him again? (to the tune of $109)
change his food again?

Oh, and he is interested in eating everything outside, but not the plain kibble that is the only thing that doesn't seem to upset his stomach. Good thing i can get my hands in his mouth to take things out.

He was doing fine on the puppy chow, but i don't want to feed him that.

Thanks for reading if you got through all this poop talk.

i understand that you would rather not feed him the puppy chow but since he is having so much tummy trouble maybe you could keep him on the puppy chow till he gets a bit older like 7 months..
sometimes young puppies have a hard time adjusting to a diet change.
when you get ready to change again try a mild diet .
i give mine blue buffalo sensitive solution grain free.
he is doing good on it..