If you wish to restore the bacteria in your dog's body and get its intestines to resume absorbing food once again, you need to add in many millions of colony forming units of helpful bacteria. Yogurt, unfortunately, does not contain enouph of this helpful type of bacteria.
The majority of non-American nations don't give antibiotics to their dogs. They generally administer probiotics to eliminate of bacteria issues. Probiotics provide the body with plenty of the good bacteria. These probiotics then push the pathogenic bacteria out via bowel movements and the urinary tract. Then the body becomes flora balanced as the pathogenic and the good bacteria balance each other as nature has always done.
From day one, your dog has been subjected to large amounts of various toxins such as vaccinations, chemicals and pesticides that are liberally sprayed on your lawn or at public parks, emissions from motor vehicles, cleansers, fluoride and numerous others.
Toxins are essentially impurities that the filtering systems of your dog's body tries to eliminate so that they do not get into the blood stream. Once contaminants penetrate the blood stream, the body starts to lose vitamins and minerals, unfortunately. The blood can either nourish the dog's body with wholesome nutrients, or it is feeding the body with contaminates which then cause major health problems.
Three major organs: the liver, the kidneys, and the lungs are the main filterers of the blood in your dogs body. If these organs are working over their capacity, then your dog will have health issues. When the filters in any system are clogged, the system, in this case the dog's body, simply can't function properly. If the system is not maintained properly and not cleaned properly, then the machine is in danger of breaking down.
This is common sense for all of us. But who ever thought about the necessity of cleaning your dog's filters?