Diarrhea

Question
My seven months female German sheppperd mix has diarrhea. Booiled chicken liver and added some garlic and I believe this cause my dog getting diarrhea. What should I do to get my dog better and what should I feed her too.

Answer
Any sudden change in diet can lead to digestive upsets.  If you have been feeding her mostly a dog food, withhold food for a day and then start back on the food and nothing else.  Stick to it and nothing else.  Canine nurtition is well known.  Modern dog foods are carefully formulated to be the complete and balanced diet dogs need.  It works very well to choose one and stick to it for nearly all dogs.  

If you haven't been feeding a dog food, perhaps you will need to go to a bland diet for a week.  Try this out of the manual I have from a large, knowledgeable dog guide school.

Bland recovery diet for dogs.

3 parts cooked rice, one part boiled hamburger or chicken, or cottage cheese. I think you can substitute boiled potatoes for the rice. Once in an emergency, we bought a plain baked potato from Wendy's.

This is meant for short time settling a dog's digestive tract. It is not the complete and balanced diet they need long term. I have seen it work.

Once her stools firm up, slowly introduce a dog food over a week.  At 7 months, almost any of the common brands of adult food should be good.  The less rich adult or all life stages formulas will produce slower growth giving more time to develop sturdy joints before bearing the full adult weight.  If you have been feeding a puppy chow, when you get low, make a slow switch to the adult version of it.  The fewer different proteins a dog eats when it is young, the easier to work around it if it ever does develop food allergies.