Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2012 12:21 pm Post subject: Runny Number 2's
Hi everyone,
Ever since we have had whiskey he has had runny poo. I dont mean very runny like water, but it is not hard. I was speaking with a girl in work who ownes a Lab and said the poo should be hard and easy to pick up.
Whiskey is 14 weeks old and we have been feeding him James Well Beloved Puppy food for the last 5 weeks. I have been told this is excellent food to feed him.
If anyone has come across this problem and has advice what to do I would be grateful.
It is probably the food. Just because it is excellent for some dogs does not mean it will be for yours =) Maybe try a new food. It is definitely not normal for poos to be runny that long.
____________ Sarah and her Labs.. Charlie(04/09/11), Marley(11/04/10) and Coco(21/02/09).
I feed Barking Heads. I find it brilliant but like you said others find James well beloved brilliant. I guess you could get samples of different food and see which is the best. I know a lot of people feed burns and skinners which they find brilliant too.
____________ Sarah and her Labs.. Charlie(04/09/11), Marley(11/04/10) and Coco(21/02/09).
All my dogs have Naturediet, which is a good quality moist food with a 60%+ meat content. I know not all foods work for all dogs, but I have put our rescue dogs, from young pups to oldies of 12-13, on it as they have arrived and we've always had good poos
Mahsa is nearly 12 weeks and is on 100% (now) Hills VetScience Large Breed Puppy. It's £30+ for 10kg - best price online. The vets will charge you over £40 for it, the cheeky sods!
She loves it, and since going to 100% Hills (she was originally on Pedigree Chum puppy) her stools (check me out being posh!) are much better and, to be honest, much fewer. When she came home on the 100% Chum they were soft but certainly not runny, and they firmed up more and more as I brought the Hills in. It's only the last three days that she's been on 100% Hills.
(The reason I kept with the Chum for so long - even though it was only 50-25% of it mixed in - was cos I am a tight git and we had the chum so I was going to use it up!)
Before changing foods I would ask the vet to run a check on a poo sample just to ensure he hasn't got some underlying infection such as giardia.
I would second that, although they aren't liquid type yet, with Giardia it can go through good/bad phases, but the poo's are never quite right. You are feeding a good quality food and you could spend the next 2 months trying different foods with no improvement, so I would rule that our first and then considering changing food.
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