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[quote=Anonymous]I woiuld not do any of those fancy alternative meals for dogs.

I don't know what the breeder recommended, but you may want to try slowly switching to something else.  Obviously he isn't tolerating it well.  The most popular puppy food recommended by breeders is generally Pro Plan -- it's pretty basic and if your breeder recommended something more fancy, maybe it's too fancy for your pup (and maybe the breeder is getting a kick-back from the company, which happens.)

What they generally recommend for dogs with diarrhea is plain white rice with cooked ground turkey or chicken mixed in.  It's not a long term feeding plan because it doesn't have all the nutrients they need, but it might work to get his stomach reset.

The thing about dogs that I had not realized until this happened with ours …. if they eat something that upsets their stomach, it can really wreck havock with the stomach lining and they need antibiotics to cure it.  (Which is not my experience as a human -- usually you just need a few days and a mild diet if you get food poisoning.)  My dog that used to eat scraps he found on the street (when we lived in a neighborhood with a lot of fast food restaurants and people would just toss their hamburger ends or chicken bones on the ground) is that, once he ate something bad, he'd need antibiotics to get him back on track.  He would get bloody diarrhea so it was really obvious that he was in distress.  But it might be something like that going on.[/quote]

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