Dog Stomach Virus Going Around

[BHC]

If your dog gets sick with vomiting and/or diarrhea know it may be a virus going around. My friend's dog had it as well

New Year's Day my pit bull was fine, in the middle of the night around 1:30 am my youngest daughter woke us up, and my dog (not too explicit) exploded on the carpet in the family room, then on the hardwood floors, and on the front porch. Our Vet wasn't open. We mopped the floors with disinfectant did our best to clean the carpet and called a carpet cleaning company they came fast and got the stains removed, called our vet and they had no openings, but we went to a different vet, who gave him a shot to calm the stomach down, antibiotics, play it safe two doses of de-wormer, and they empty his anal glands. The diarrhea slowed down immediately from the shot he got and within a  few hours stopped completely. Within a few days, he was eating better but was playful, well that changed today when he attacked me in his playful way. few more days of antibiotics 

[smittty]

 This time of year a lot of dogs have stomach problems. A lot of them are caused by the holidays lot of different people sneaking them treats

[jumpthestring]

Your full of good news, but thanks for the heads up.

[electricstart]

Three german sheperds ,one always seems to have stomach issues . Have been giving small pieces of ginger snap cookie seems to help . Always add venison or chicken  to dry food . Real bad case have to go chicken and rice for couple of days . Thanks for heads up . 

[smittty]

6 minutes ago, electricstart said:

Three german sheperds ,one always seems to have stomach issues . Have been giving small pieces of ginger snap cookie seems to help . Always add venison or chicken  to dry food . Real bad case have to go chicken and rice for couple of days . Thanks for heads up . 

Try plain yogurt and rice for a few days. 

[BHC]

21 minutes ago, electricstart said:

Three german sheperds ,one always seems to have stomach issues . Have been giving small pieces of ginger snap cookie seems to help . Always add venison or chicken  to dry food . Real bad case have to go chicken and rice for couple of days . Thanks for heads up . 

Frank add some pumpkin to the food, can pumpkin be fine with the boiled rice and boiled chicken. Our little dog the oldest of the two has a very weak stomach, we give her that combination and it helps

[Shakyjake]

The vet gave him antibiotics in case he ingested something. They do nothing for a virus. 

[BHC]

My dog didn't ingest anything,  it was a stomach bug/virus so antibiotics needed. De-womer was given was pre caution 

[Nomad]

Dogs?!  I've had it for the last 3 days.  Terrible!

[BHC]

7 minutes ago, Nomad said:

Dogs?!  I've had it for the last 3 days.  Terrible!

You want my dogs de-wormer?

[vdep217]

10 hours ago, BHC said:

My dog didn't ingest anything,  it was a stomach bug/virus so antibiotics needed. De-womer was given was pre caution 

Antibiotics do nothing for a virus . Precaution if bacterial

Edited January 9 by vdep217

[BHC]

Virus / bacteria in general the same to me both

It was bacteria took about 32 hrs to see a slight improvement and he improved with each day passed