Loose stool because of food?
Being a funny 4 weeks (accidents not so funny  ) It was so long ago my golden was a puppy that I didn't remember all the silly things they do when they are young plus all the hard work (so worth it anyway).Being a learning process switching from a Golden to OES but happy with my choice. So far everything is going fine my only problem is his stool. He normally does it 3 times a day, first thing in the morning around 7:30am then when I we take walk my wife to work around 9am and then one last time around 6pm. Here is the thing his first poop comes normal, but his second one always starts normal (solid) but end with mousse consistency. And finally his last poop of the day sometimes normal sometimes again solid in the beginning and mousse at the end. To make it worse he still didn't learn how to popp properly and gives litlle steps while doing it, with the mousse poop being a mess to clean. He is 19 weeks old, all vaccines done and dewormed. He eat very well, very happy and energetic. So I wonder if it has anything to do with food? When he arrived he was eating Royal Canin Junior but because we where having problems getting a constant supply we changed to Orijen puppy because I heard it was one of the best food in the market. Since then I also read some people comment that it has to much meat content. Can the food be the reason for it? He is on this food for already 2 weeks. Normally I would ask the doctor but where I live the vets charge you even for a 5 minutes chat and probably he would ask to do stoll samples (that cost a fortune) of a dog that seems perfectly health. I keep monitoring his stoll and that have been like this for weeks so unless I see a changing for worst I want to avoid hefty vet fees. Should I try and give him a different food and see how he reacts? What food do you recommend? I heard Acana is as good as Orijen but with a lower meat content, anyone try it? Advices and suggestions are most welcome. Thank you |
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| If you go back thru the achieves under Search you'll find mention of loose stools at the "end of the line" might be related to exercise. Food needs time to dry out before exiting and could be feeding time and a bit too much exercise might be causing the gut to be moving a bit too quick. A change in food might be called for, something that might slow things down a bit. Talk to your vet about it. Maybe it's a case of too much food per day.........just some random thoughts. |
| My response has nothing to do with the consistency of the poo but with the "Poo Properly" comment you made... you said he gives little steps while doing it. Steel is just over a year old and does this. I don't think he is stopping! I call it walk - a - poo. I don't think he is the only one either. He NEVER poo's in one spot, it is always a trail of poo. I still make fun of him to this day and thank him frequently for the added exercise on poo pick up days! |
LOL!  Very few of mine have stood still to pooh, most have left a trail. Don't know if it is the missing tail or not. And no, mine don't always face north to pooh either. |
| I wouldn't mind the pooh trail if it was always solid but my one leaves a trail that changes consistency. It starts 2 or 3 solid then 1 or 2 soft and one last drop of mousse. It almost like he tries to expel all of his pooh, the one that is ready to go (solid) but also the one that is still drying upp (mousse). Last weekend because he started with a bit of mild diarrhea I put him on mix of his food and boiled rice and after 3 meals his feces were perfect, slowly start giving more of his dry food with less rice, but by the time he was just eating dry food his pooh mousse at the end return. Maybe in a month, when he becomes 6 motnhs older and I start giving food only 2 times a day he will have a bigger time interval between meals and hopefully that will leave give more time for food to dry up. I guess also that him being in the process of changing his teeth isn't helping the stools also. I read in this forum that some owners find milk teeth everywere when they start growing adults teeth but so far I haven't found a single one so I can only assume he is swallowing them up. |
| After countless dogs, I have never found a tooth. Down the throat or the tooth fairy carried them off. Sounds like you are thinking wisely re: pooh mousse. |
| Thanks for the advice SheepieBoss. This week his pooh got normal. And that happened even during his first "holiday" in a different home, different city and even the water different (If I'm driving to another country I always take water from hime and mix it up with the one from de destination so he get used to but it was not enough and after 2 days we has already drinking the mew water). I convinced it have been down to 2 things. I changed the food for a less meat content one and take him outside less often. Before he was going every 4 hours but now because he is behaving so well indoors I take him every 6 7 hours which enables him system to absorb and dry up his feces before he poops. Now the pooh trail isn't so bad since I can grab all of his pooh. Happy man. |
It takes so little to makes us happy, a good solid pup pooh is one.  |
| Here I am again, and I'm very confused. I starting to believe he doesn't like were he lives or lets say his bowel. After returning from his "holidays" for the first week his pooh was fine ( 2 times a day, one in morning one in afternoon) but just one week after he went back to the way he was. Now he does it 4 times a day, one on his way to my wife work (fine solid pooh) in the morning and 2 time returning home (moussse pooh) and the same in the afternoon collecting my wife from work. I just don't understand, food is the same, water the same (we took 5 litres water to gradually change for the new one) food bowls the same, feeding schedule, walking schedule, toys, leash, everything. I can only think that or there is something in the house or outside that gives him so kind of allergy that upset his bowel and makes him pooh more than he should. I'm going to talk with the vet but does anyone has any thoughts? |
| Did the vet come up with any ideas? I do find if any extra "treets" are given then Sprocket will get a "runny tum". Old English do have delicate tums on the whole-some may not but ours is the 4th one we have had and they have all been the same.xx |
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