Diarrhea or Soft Stools?

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I  receive emails all the time that a person’s animal has diarrhea.  I  realize that is a common term for runny stools; however, I would like to  explain the difference between diarrhea and soft stools.

Diarrhea is a condition of illness where the body must rid itself of whatever is causing that illness. The animal will have several watery stools within  an hour’s time.  It is more often than not accompanied by a fever.

Soft stools which often happens when a animal first goes on my nutrition  program are an indication that the body is doing a general cleansing of  old food and a buildup of feces that has accumulated over the years.

Commercial  pet food is not fit to eat, and an animal’s body does the best it can  with it, but it doesn’t provide the necessary nutrients.  So the body  holds on to it trying to draw as much from that junk food as it possibly  can.  When you start feeding real food, raw meat and cooked vegetables,  the body then dumps out the old in order to make room for the new, and  that is what produces soft stools.  It isn’t a condition of illness.