We purchased a 12 week old GSD, which is now 5 months. She had the same problem you are talking about. We had her wormed and fed her a scrambled egg a couple times a week to ease her gut. I think the change in food is what caused her the diarrea. Once she got use to the new food and ate some scrambled egg, she was fine. I have found, over the years, that egg works great for them. Don't know how others feel but the dog loves it.
hey Connie, Aly is now having a new problem. This started today, she went outside to go poop, she went poop, a decent sized movement. Then about 5 seconds later she tried to go again, then stopped and tried to go again. She has also been biting at her rear end and scooting on the grass. I presume this would be her needing her glands expressed or an infection in the area?
Also, the vet did mention a very gassy odor as I mentioned before when she took a swab and got a fecal sample. Would that gassy odor been an early indication of the anal glands needing to be expressed? Did the vet miss something? Does it seem like the glands need to expressed?
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Dale it could be the case considering her history of loose stools. I would take her to the vet or see about a drop in to see a vet tech to be sure in this case rather than a non professional like a groomer who while will be able to empty that anal gland won't be able to tell you if something else is probably wrong like IBS or infection.
As I go on grooming I find myself discouraging people from having me regularly express anal glands. It's one of those things like ears where imo if nothing is wrong... don't screw with it. Each time you manually express a gland it causes it trauma and i've had more and more clients of highly groomed breeds come to me at about 6 years old after having their anal glands removed due to trauma/infection.
Grassy odor isn't really the way I'd describe healthy anal glands btw. Reminds me more of fish fertilizer.
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Re: My 8 week old GSD and Bacterial Colitis
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