Thread: Probably should have posted in "diet & nutrition" but hey ho...poop problem!

Hi teejay, poor Neo and poor you. Sound like you have a right dilemma there.

From my knowledge ( having a very mucky Weimaraner once upon a time) I can offer the following advice.

Get to the vet (again) with your poo sample and get them to run a Bacti culture for Salmonella Clostridium Campylobacter, as well as check for parasite burden. However My feeling is you are dealing with a case of inflammatory bowl disease. Then it's about controlling the diet unless you want to go down the steroid route.

When controlling the diet your going to need to separate Neo from the rest of the troops at feeding time. Basically stop him from eating any of their food. I know you've had trouble getting him on to raw food, but it is a really good bet at calming the inflammation down. If you can get hold of natural instincts then try that. As Neo is a bit fussy you'll need to change him over gradually by adding a tea spoon of the new raw food with his current food over the period of one to two weeks. Keep him on pure raw food and don't introduce anything else for two weeks after the cross over period. If the new diet works, you'll be seeing improvements by then.


I have seen this type of treatment work on 5 different breeds of dogs and 4 cats (including my own pets).. Granted, not many, but every time some one has tried it it worked for their pet. The trick is to do it slowly, to stick with it a while during the acclimation period, and to stop access to other food types. Make sure you get a cat approved raw food so you get the correct ratios of meat, bone, offal etc. if you don't want to go down the raw diet then get a grain free high protein food. I hope you and Neo find a solution xx