Sigh, I know I was JUST asking about Captain’s hurt leg. He’s over that now, but as of yesterday has been Not Pooping Well. I came home to a lake of awful smelling stuff by the back door, and he hasn’t had a solid bowel movement since. He eats and drinks fine (although he wasn’t very enthusiastic about breakfast this morning - he did eat it, though) and isn’t listless or anything. If it goes on I’ll take him to the vet, but is there anything I can give him in the meantime? I just took him out and he pooped out something green, liquid, and incredibly foul.
I’ve heard children’s pepto works for dogs, and that the equivalent dog medicine is the same thing in a more expensive form.
A tablespoon or two of canned pumpkin.
My dog once had this problem, and the vet recommended chewable Pepto Bismol tabs. He didn’t say anything about them having to be children’s Pepto. The dog weighted about 75 pounds, and IIRC, I was supposed to give her 1 tab, but I don’t recall how often. I say “supposed” to because though I tried hiding the tablet in foods she liked, she just wouldn’t eat the darn thing–and this is a dog that ate every edible substance known to man–or canines.
Anyway, I’d go with Pepto.
Pepto works and so does Immodium AD. My vet has be give the big dogs (about 75 lbs) a whole Immodium after every poop.
It normally works great, but my last go-round with Nick, he had developed an intestinal bacterial infection and resulted in a trip to the vet.
Good luck!
Pepto is fine. I do not recommend Immodium or anything that stops him up…if it’s a bacterial overgrowth (as stinky green soupy shit would indicate) you can make it worse by preventing him from expelling it. I think any vet will tell you that.
Standard procedure for canine diarrhea - let the dog drink as much water as it wants, but withold all food for 12-24 hours. Then reintroduce bland food - cooked rice with a little cooked ground low-fat meat. In small meals. Asuming he’s adult - smelly diarrhea, or any persistent diarrhea - is an emergency situation with a puppy.
Has he been on antibiotics? They can often cause dire rear. 
A friend tells me in Europe giving a scrip for probiotics along with antibiotics is standard procedure.`
White rice, we usually pick our hound up a quart from the chinese place up the street to “firm him up”…
Yes, white rice, not brown. Works the same as pumpkin by absorbing extra fluid in the colon.
I’m with the white rice folks. I fed mine a bland diet food the vet suggested, and it was mostly rice and scrambled egg.
It sounds like he got into something. It may clear up itself once it is all out.
If a dog is having trouble keeping anything down or continuing diarrhea try this out of the manual I have from a large, knowledgeable dog guide school.
Bland recovery diet for dogs.
3 parts cooked rice, one part boiled hamburger or chicken, or cottage cheese. I think you can substitute boiled potatoes for the rice. Once in an emergency, we bought a plain baked potato from Wendy’s.
This is meant for short time settling a dog’s digestive tract. It is not the complete and balanced diet they need long term. I have seen it work.
From a couple of vets, I’ve heard rice mixed with plain yogurt.
I did some research on this disgusting subject several years ago. The absolute gold standard for man and beast used to be a product called KAOPECTATE. It contained kaolin clay (yes, DIRT) and pectin from fruit.
As usual, whenever you have a product everyone loves, that has no toxic qualities, and is inexpensive, Murphy’s Law takes over, and a glitch is found. Turns out the KAOLIN clay had a high level of lead in it.
Damn.
If you google until your fingers fall off, you MAY be able to locate a veterinary source of kaolin-pectin anti-diarrheal. It’s often out of stock. If you find it, buy it, and set aside for your favorite end of the world scenario.
In the meantime, Pepto-Bismol (or Pepto-Gizmo, as we called it when we were kids) can work on a dawg.
The dawg won’t like the taste any more than you do.
~VOW
Probiotics.