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I think my puppy may be sick?
It's a siberian husky. I got him when he was 4 weeks old. Now he's 15 weeks old. Since I first got him, he's been pooping diarrhea. I got him deworm when he was 5 weeks old. I'm starting to think it may be coccidia.
When I first got him, he was eating Beneful dry food. I switch him over to Grreat Choice dry food when he was around 9 weeks. After his diarrhea continued, I switch over to Nature's Recipe dry food hoping to ease anything in his stomach.
It's been a week now and it seems like the diarrhea is getting worst.
@cav mom: It was a vet that did it. It was took me four visits to finish his vaccination.
@ainawgsd: Thank you. I did that and the first thing my vet did when he saw the poop was "That definitively does not look right." So he does have parasites. Possibility from dirty open water outside or cat/dog poop.
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- ainawgsdLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
Take a stool sample to your vet and have it tested for parasites. There is no single deworming medication that will treat all of the different kinds of worms that dogs can get. So even though you dewormed him already, there's a good chance that you did not use the correct dewormer for the type of parasites he has. Also, some parasites are more challenging to treat than others and may take several rounds of medication and/or various different medication to get rid of. Either way, taking a stool sample to the vet and having it tested is the best way to determine what medication would be most effective.
- cav mom # 1Lv 77 years ago
After all this time why haven't you had him to the vet. You wormed him at 5 wks.when a pup shouldn't be wormed before 6 wks. so you obviously did an over the counter wormer because no vet. would have done it that early. You need to stop changing his food, that could be a good part of the problem you are making it worse.
You need to get the pup to the vet. and have a complete check up on him. You don't know what you are doing or you wouldn't have taken such a young pup from it's mother and not contacted a vet. way before this. You are going to do more damage to the pup.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Continuous changing of food isn't good for a puppy who is so young. When changing foods over it has to be gradual and done lightly over a period of time to ease that type of food into their system. Have you taken him to a vet more recently? The only thing I know is that changing the foods over that often will make the diarrhea much worse