Funny but Serious question
Funny but Serious question
my 7mo old GSP has REALLY BAD gas. Im serious, that dog will clear a room of people. People come over to visit and its actually embarassing. Is it something that he is eating or is it a problem. He gets 6 cups (2 cups/3 t a day) of Purina Puppy Chow. He is not overweight nor is he skin and bones. He gets plenty of exercise and he eats mostly dry kibble. Once in a while he gets a soup(beef) bone.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Jason
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6 cups per day is an awful lot of volume. i am not telling you to cut down on how much you feed him, but rather, switch to one of the premium foods, like Pro Plan or Euk. Your post did not say how much he weighs, but assuming about 55 lbs., you would be feeding him about half of the volume you are currently feeding him, if you were too switch. the result will be much smaller stools also. i bet his stool currently is pretty soft and runny.
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Jason,
Do as John said start by feeding a better Quality food. Most puppy foods are fillers. They are loaded with Corn or Corn meal and that tends to run threw dogs especially young dogs when fed to much. You know what corn does to you , now think if you ate it every day for every meal. If he doesn't have firm/solid he isn't getting the proper nutritionv out of his food. I never feed a puppy food to any of my puppies or my young dogs. I feed a well balanced Adult food even to my puppies I just start feeding off the Dam.
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Do as John said start by feeding a better Quality food. Most puppy foods are fillers. They are loaded with Corn or Corn meal and that tends to run threw dogs especially young dogs when fed to much. You know what corn does to you , now think if you ate it every day for every meal. If he doesn't have firm/solid he isn't getting the proper nutritionv out of his food. I never feed a puppy food to any of my puppies or my young dogs. I feed a well balanced Adult food even to my puppies I just start feeding off the Dam.
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Just to add to what John and Robert have said, Pro Plan also has yogurt cultures that will aid in a more complete digestion by adding good bacteria to the dogs system, which should also help alleviate some of the gas. 6 cups is an awful lot of food per day.....
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I am not going to dispute the above advise but will dispute the reasoning given. I too have raised pups using adult food with excellent results and see no problem in going that route and have normally recommended doing just that.
But to inform you that puppy food is just filler or Purina Puppy Food is a low quality feed is not true. Plus corn in the diet does not just pass through a dog any more than it does any other animal including people. That idea comes from the fact that you will see the skin of the soft kernel we eat show in our waste. Of course the starch and the oil in the kernal along with the protien is absorbed and is one of the best if not the very best source of carbs that we have and also one of the cheapest.
The so called high quality foods are very simular in many cases but the biggest difference is less fiber, which translates to less waste but not necessarily good for the dog, and a higher price that is somewhat offset by less feed being recommended. However, the fact is that most dogs in this country are fed the so called low quality feed and are well nurished as documented by research done by many companies as well as the USDA.
My pup that I have now I did feed Diamond Puppy Food to and she also had the same problem as her consumption increased till I gradually switched her to their adult food and have not noticed a problem since. However she has never gotten more than 3 cups a day and is still carrying more wieght than she really needs.
Ezzy
But to inform you that puppy food is just filler or Purina Puppy Food is a low quality feed is not true. Plus corn in the diet does not just pass through a dog any more than it does any other animal including people. That idea comes from the fact that you will see the skin of the soft kernel we eat show in our waste. Of course the starch and the oil in the kernal along with the protien is absorbed and is one of the best if not the very best source of carbs that we have and also one of the cheapest.
The so called high quality foods are very simular in many cases but the biggest difference is less fiber, which translates to less waste but not necessarily good for the dog, and a higher price that is somewhat offset by less feed being recommended. However, the fact is that most dogs in this country are fed the so called low quality feed and are well nurished as documented by research done by many companies as well as the USDA.
My pup that I have now I did feed Diamond Puppy Food to and she also had the same problem as her consumption increased till I gradually switched her to their adult food and have not noticed a problem since. However she has never gotten more than 3 cups a day and is still carrying more wieght than she really needs.
Ezzy
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