Poor Valor is feeling under the weather this weekend (diarrhea) . It is too late to take him to the vet before Monday, but we were able to speak to the doctors office and get advice on how to care for him until then. The advice was to give him a bland diet of boiled chicken and rice.
When preparing to start cooking right now. How much seasoning should I be willing to put into this for a dog with tummy troubles? Just salt and pepper, or can I also add a can of chicken broth?
Add nothing. I put Blackjack’s bland food recipe on here somewhere, I’ll look for it. The chicken broth may be full of fat and salt, both of which may not be good for Valor. Boiled ground meat, rice, and vegetables for fiber are all he should have.
Recipe here. But there’s no need to go all out just for the weekend.
My Bichon occasionally gets the runs. We give him plain boneless skinless chicken breast, boiled in plain water, and then cooled and shredded. Plus some plain white rice. This is what the vet ordered. It usually fixes him up within a couple days.
What they said above. No seasoning. White rice and plain boiled chicken. Same as my horrible cats get if they get the runs (I don’t have dogs now, but my family has owned them before).
The point of the rice is to “bind” them up, and the chicken makes it palatable. It’s also pretty unlikely to cause an allergic reaction (chicken is also on human food intolerance test diets).
Hope the doctor can find a cure or cause and that this is a self-limiting problem, and that Valor is back to normal quickly!
One thing I’ll add, skip a meal before you start feeding him. Just like with people who have stomach upset, sometimes the best thing to do is let his stomach settle. Plenty of access to water, just skip dinner. Try him on bland chicken and plain rice tomorrow. I have also used scrambled eggs.
When our vets prescribed bland chicken and rice diets, several times, it didn’t really work for our dogs. We had more success with cooked sweet potatoes. Pumpkin can also help.