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My dog's yellow diarrhea won't stop. When should I see a vet?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | German Shepherd | Female | spayed | 4 years and 3 months old | 70 lbs

My German shepherd suddenly started with squirting stools the color yellow roughly 2 and a half weeks ago. We started making chicken and rice and on the third day she got firmed poop that was majority brown but some yellow color. We tried to mix back in her food and she got mud pies this time. Put her back on the chicken and rice for a week and bought a new limited ingredient food. After a week of solid poop we stayed to mix in that food and we're back to mid pies. Time for a vet visit, y or n?

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Answered By Lauren Jones VMD

Veterinarian

Published on April 20th, 2017

It sounds as though you have already tried most home remedies for Sasha's diarrhea. It is encouraging that her stool firms up with a bland chicken and rice diet. If she is eating, drinking, and acting normally, you could try adding a probiotic (such as Fortiflora) into her new diet. I'm glad that you've looked into limited ingredient foods, but if a food allergy is causing her diarrhea, it can take at least 6-8 weeks to see any improvement related to the diet change. If the mudpies persist despite the probiotics and all of your bland diet attempts, a vet visit is in order. Sasha may have a virus, stomach upset from eating unusual food or foreign material, parasites, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency (EPI), among other conditions. I hope that she's on the mend soon!

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    Answered By Dr. Leigh, DVM

    Veterinarian

    Published on April 3rd, 2017

    She could have an infection, parasite, inflammatory bowel disease, a malabsorption problem, etc. If you can't take her to the vet you could feed her a bland diet, like chicken and white rice, and add a probiotic to her diet and see if that helps. If not, she really needs to be examined by a vet to determine the exact cause and then prescribe medications to help treat the diarrhea.

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