I have a 4mth old puppy (4mths today!) and slightly worried about how much he eats and poops. He eats 3 times a day and always finishes his food now that I'm mixing a bit of gravy with the dry food. So a tiny amount of Forthglade made into gravy, with Skinners puppy food. He was on Skinners at the breeders. He has always pooped a lot so no change when I introduced the gravy a few weeks ago.
Last week he was ill - not sure if it was something he had eaten, he didn't have a temp. But he was sick and had diarrhoea. This also happened to follow a day of a lot of cheese treats (recall training) so I have stopped any dairy to work out if it was that. I'm also now switching gradually to Skinners hypoallergenic.
He poops about 7 times a day - which seems a lot! I mentioned to the vet and she said it seemed a lot. Some poops were quite runny (not diarrhoea) but have got better recently after his poorly days and cutting out dairy. The vet suggested going down to one protein to make it simpler to work out what was ok or not.
I suppose I'm asking if anyone has been through this with their puppies - is it just a phase or am I doing the right thing trying to work out if there is something that disagrees with him (I do try and stop him eating snails, mud, grass etc but sometimes tricky). Any other ideas??
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shopsalot · 05/11/2019 09:41
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