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Pumpkin is water soluble fibre. It's like metamucil. It helps keep the stool together because it's like jelly. I'm a nurse. We specialize in poop, both cleaning it up and keeping it moving through the body. It won't hurt, and it's the first thing some people will recommend for diarrhea.

Now, if this dog has colitis, the LAST, the absolutely LAST thing it needs is sharp bits of bone irritating an already bleeding intestinal mucosa! If you give bone, grind it up really finely.  For now, I'd suggest just giving meat and not bone. I don't have the faith in raw diets that some people have. That's because I worked a lot with bones in the lab when I was in university. Chicken bones (and all bird bones) are thin walled and hollow inside. The broken edges are very sharp, and yes, I HAVE heard of several cases where dogs died from a punctured bowel after eating raw chicken complete with bones. We nearly lost one of our cats from a bird bone, too.

Colitis is usually treated with steroids. They will make the dog thirsty and increase its appetite. It will pee more than usual, needless to say.

But first, the vet needs to rule out parasites and parvovirus, two other possible causes of bleeding. Save a stool sample to take with you in the morning.

Any dog or other animal that's been starved needs FREQUENT, SMALL MEALS.  I saw the vet rehabilitate a couple of starvation cases when I worked for him, and that was how it was done.

One thing I'm quite sure of is, in additon to saying 'no' to a raw diet, the vet will try to sell you a bag of Science Diet. Read the label on that crap, and you'll see you're paying top dollar for something that's mostly corn meal. The Dog Food Analysis site rates all Hills products at one star, and that only because it's not possible to give them anything lower.

Good luck with her! I think she looks more like a pit bull.