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Originally Posted by KatysMom 
In particular, see Wylie's Mom's comment, in part quoted below. ...if he actually already *had* giardia, recovered, and is now suffering the common after effects that some dogs have afterwards (for months!). This is what happened to my Marcel - he had giardia as young puppy, and then had diarrhea that no vet could fix for MONTHS. I finally consulted a pet nutritionist and she put him immediately on a home cooked white fish/green beans/potato diet and *boom*, his diarrhea was gone in 2 days...we fed that diet for about 1.5 months and then switched to raw and have been feeding that now for years.
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Naru - the above quoted is *exactly* what I was going to tell you about. What you're going thru w/ giardia is exactly what happened when my Marcel was a puppy and had giardia - MONTHS and months of mushy, gel-like, grainy poos. No vet could solve it.
After 100s of hours of research over months and months, I finally read that when puppies get giardia - the germ/bug can actually start digesting their small intestine, causing real damage and longer-term effects (doesn't go that far in less-vulnerable adult dogs).
So you have to "rest" the small intestine by giving very simple foods, and most definitely get on a probiotic asap to repopulate the intestinal flora.
The nutritionist I worked with put Marcel on a diet of whitefish (cod, sole, tilapia, whatnot...), green beans, and potatoes. And then some supplements. I literally cried when after 2 days, Marcel had his first genuinely solid poo in MONTHS. I can dig out more info from my files on this diet if you want it...