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Okay i posted awhile back about one of my pups pooping in the kennel.
There seems to be more to this issue than just her being naughty and a dirty puppy. Both the pups are now having the pudding diarrhea.

Heres the story:

The weekend of May 23 the one pup spent a night in a boarding Kennel. Then 3 days later she ate a bag of mouse poison and of course went to the vet and spent 30days on vitamin K. This is about the time when the pooping in the kennel and pudding poop started. I chalked it up to her experience and the fact that it probably killed anything good in her gut. On June 12th her sister arrived pooping normal. Within about a week period the sister started with the pudding poop. Chalked that up to stress etc. Put both on probiotics and changed there food to a lower protein value.
I had been speaking with my vet in this time span and the sister had actually been in to get her advantage and although she was having pudding poop she looked good wasn't dehydrated etc so we decided to give it another week.Both were dewormed in the last cpl weeks as well and it made no difference.

What is noticeable now is the fact that both have lost weight.
So both pups went in for stool samples 3 days ago and we are awaiting the results of that.

I am thinking the one picked something up from the boarding kennels and it is now making its rounds. It is not waterery at all just like chocolate pudding. So i had originally thought giardia but you would think with this time span it would be MUCH worse than it is now.
I also have 2 adults in the house who are not sick in anyway shape or form.

Anybody got any idea's?





 
 

I would start them on a course of Metro.

Thanks Judy and for all the ppl who pm'd me.
The test came back today as Giardia so they are all on Metro as they didnt have pancur in stock and didnt want to make me wait till Monday.

So now comes the tedious task of sanitizing my yard. Not exactly sure how i am gonna do it without killing everything as they were not in runs but all over my lawn:(

Currently i have confined them to my deck as i can sanatize that and we are getting a new deck in 2 weeks anyways.
Its the rest i am concerned about to avoid re infection!!
 

yep 1 puppy out of 10 in my last litter got a form of giardia the puppy parent called me worried and such so i contacted all the puppy parents and did stool samples on all of them come to find out the 1 puppy parent wasent watching said cat box and thats how the pup got it cuz she was all over the cat candy. and wanted to blame it on me so i would pick up the vet bills when no other puppys where sick.

giardia can be picked up from all sorts of things.  The most common where I live is drinking water from puddles.  Beaver fever is well known in these parts. Sorry to hear that but glad that you  know what it is and it is treated.