My staffy loves to swim and we went to the beach on Saturday morning for the first time in ages and she was swimming around merrily while my boy looked on and paddled (he doesn't like getting more than his legs wet).

Before we left the beach my girl squatted for a poo and streams of water came out but I just assumed she had swallowed too much water.  It was leaking out of her as she was walking and in the car on the way home but stopped once we were home.  Again I didn't think too much of it as she was as bright as usual and everything was normal.

Since then she has had dire rear (think korma colour and consistency) and I have been feeding her pasta, fish, chicken, live yoghurt and prokolin.  She has now had this for 3 days and I'm sure if I took her to the vet they would say bland diet and have some prokolin.  Has anyone on here had such an intense reaction to sea water?  She never usually has any sort of reaction to it and last night she was up every two hours for a poo.

Would it be worth totally starving her or should I just keep up with the bland stuff?  she is on very much reduced portions of food and has been getting digestor in it which gives poo a bit of substance.  Is it possible to overdose on probiotics?

get her up vet .  I don't want to frighten you but excessive taking on of sea water can be very dangerous.

I didn't know it was possibly dangerous - my dog was very loose when she first went down to the sea - they do learn.  My sister's dog many years ago was extremely squitty after being in the sea for the first time - she recovered no problem.  It is a shock if you don't know what sea water can do - it is best not to encourage them to run into the sea - I keep telling my husband not to throw the ball into the sea all the time but Meg never seems to be affected now.

> get her up vet .  I don't want to frighten you but excessive taking on of sea water can be very dangerous.

In what way?

i would imagine dehydration

I've done a google search and it says kidney failure, brain damage and death but no real evidence of any of them.  As a precaution I phoned my vet who said to continue with the bland diet and bring her in tomorrow if she still has dire rear.

have had this with my 3 beardies when we visited Scotland (Aberdeen) last year ...after a few hours playing on the beach they were only paddling in the water but I did see them drinking some ...before we left the beach they all had the squits the worst I have ever seen like projectile pooing , came on so quickly....I was prepared to travel home I was so worried....we decided to give them bottled water and starve for 24 hrs which did the trick for us ..doesnt happen at home when we visit the beach, we think it was a combination of different water and drinking salt water from the sea.