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Food recommendations for puppy with sensitive stomach

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monkeywithacowface · 06/09/2017 11:24

pup is 12 weeks old and been with us two weeks. He has had runny poo's since we got him. Have seen the vet and he's been eating only chicken and rice since until they improve and had procolin. They are getting better but still getting quite a few loose ones. It would help if he stopped eating stones and mud!

I don't intend to put him back on the kibble he was on when we got him (Arden Grange) but looking for recommendations for a good quality, high protein (80/20) dry food ready for when I can start slowly introducing it. Am worried I'm going to spend the rest of my days boiling up chickens

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SparklingRaspberry · 06/09/2017 12:25

Raw diet.

SpiderCid · 06/09/2017 12:27

I feed mine Millies Wolfheart and dont have any issues. Good selection of flavours too.
www.millieswolfheart.co.uk/

Bubble2bubble · 06/09/2017 12:34

Likewise, never had any stomach problems with numerous dogs I've switched to Millies Wolfheart.

Adarajames · 06/09/2017 12:35

Also suggest you go raw, if not, then wainwrights trays are great when mine has had runny poos

Adarajames · 06/09/2017 12:36

Ops, pressed send too soon!

The trays include ground bone which helps firm things up

KentishGypsyTart · 06/09/2017 12:47

A raw diet can really help with sensitive stomachs. Are you on Facebook? If you are check out a group called BARF UK. There seems to be quite a few dogs on there with sensitive stomachs. They are really helpful and will help with any questions. If you did decide to switch they have a starters guide. And I am sure that if you ask someone will point you in the direction of how to do an elimination diet. Maybe you can find out what your dog is sensitive to and move on from there.

If a raw diet isn't for you then I have also found Millies Wolfheart a good quality dried food.

Best of luck to you guys and enjoy your new puppy! Smile

BiteyShark · 06/09/2017 13:03

I use Millie's Wolfheart as well. Lots of different flavours and I love their snacks.

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monkeywithacowface · 06/09/2017 13:08

Thank you, I have been considering raw but haven't properly looked into it. I've seen millieswolfheart recommended a few times as well so will take a look.

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fannydaggerz · 06/09/2017 13:15

Chappy is the best for a sensitive stomach.

It's the cheapest food on the market but for some reason, it doesn't upset stomachs.

Adarajames · 06/09/2017 23:46

It's also utterly crap!

Honkyzeke · 07/09/2017 07:06

I agree with a PP Chappy dog meat is the best thing for getting solid poos! Agreed it isn't the most nutritious but I used to use it for my pup who had a sensitive stomach on recommendation of the vet he said it was near as damn it to their own sensitive digestion meat there was and quarter of the price, so I tried a variety of different foods and mixed them with chappy until I found one she liked and then slowly took the chappy out we found lovejoys to be the most agreeable for her.

Jenny70 · 07/09/2017 15:26

Are you sure she's not allergic/intolerant of chicken? If it's not cleared up on chicken/rice try a different meat protein for the week and test that.

willdoitinaminute · 09/09/2017 20:01

Salmon and potato kibble was the magic combination for my lab when she was a pup. However the runny tummy also cleared up when the neighbours Cherry laurel stop dropping tasty berries into our garden. May be worth checking your garden for toxic plants, puppies will eat anything.

Oops4 · 09/09/2017 22:47

I've been swithering about foods as well due my dog having poo issues (previous post). I've been doing lots of googling and although chappie looks complete rubbish there are a lot of people advising it forndogs with sensitive tummies. Most recently ours has been smelling very badly of pee and scratching a lot in addition to the issues with his tummy. He was put on precautionary antibiotics by the vet and had an extra flea treatment with no improvement. In my googling about food I've found a lot of things that suggest foods enriched with omega oils can cause both these symptoms in dogs. So the grain free premium food I've changed him too is probably the cause. Makes me wonder what other apparently dog healthy ingredients in these pricier brands are actually the opposite and if I should just go back to cheap and cheerful! It's so confusing

BLUEsNewSpringWatch · 10/09/2017 01:26

Oops I've also been wondering whether totally grain free is really better. I currently pay rather a lot for a grain free food. Recently dog had a poorly tummy - vet advice chicken & rice. Yet the grain free movement has taken us away from dog foods that contain rice and instead have things like sweet potato in them to be called grain free. But surely if chicken and rice is considered best for a dog with a poorly tummy, a good quality chicken & rice dog food, should be really good for them - so is grain free more a fad not really based on fact (or fact taken out of context - wheat (rather than all grains) being bad for a lot of dogs? So now im really confused and dont know what to feed.

op If chicken and rice hasn't settled pups tum, I think it means either pup is eating something else too (i.e. finding something to eat in the garden) or pup has a rare allergy to chicken and a different meat should be tried. If that works then you know to look for a food which does not contain chicken.

Nonagoninfinity · 10/09/2017 05:02

We got purbr rescue puppy at 8 months old and she had a terrible tummy. We tried all sorts and actually found that it was Arden Grange (white fish) that sorted her out. I know you're not keen but sometimes switching food too quick can be the cause of tummy troubles... we've had her a year now and her tummy is completely fine (thank god!) and at her recent vet check up they were really happy with her health - she's a trim, shiny coated, sparkly toothed bundle of joy Smile

Womble75 · 10/09/2017 05:32

Our lab had the same thing, had campylobacter when we got him as a pup, added to an allergy to just about everything and then his stomach being dessimated due to a severe reaction to metacam, the only food he can tolerate is chappie wet and autarky salmon. Believe me we have tried everything. The vet actually recommended the chappie and with a lot of trial and error the autarky is one of the few dried he can tolerate without decorating the garden.
He's been on it for around a year now and has nice solid poos and is a happy healthy massive bouncy boy! The vet is really happy with him considering he was on deaths door after the metacam incident.

Food recommendations for puppy with sensitive stomach
MardAsSnails · 10/09/2017 05:45

Which Arden grange was the he on?

My dearly departed Dalmatian had a runny tummy issues with all food other than Arden grange sensitive, which is white fish and potato rather than chicken and rice.

PerfectlyChaotic · 10/09/2017 07:18

OP, we've just been through this with our pup...18 weeks now. NOTHING worked in the early days & it was horrid for her & us!! She was on a premium grain free kibble from breeder. I switched to a small brand called Gentle (its cold pressed,
& not grain free, & you can feed alongside raw if you wish) a month or so ago & within a day poos were completely solid (& have pretty much reminded so!). Obviously it's probably a case of trial & error, but wanted to share as it worked so well (& quickly) for us. I am about to post for some dietary advice for weight gain, but I'm keen to keep her on the Gentle!!

Oops4 · 10/09/2017 11:58

I think after even more googling I'm going to change back to food containing rice. Twice he's been put on chicken and boiled rice to settle his stomach and it had worked so makes no sense to avoid it. Sweet potato seems to linked to most of the other issues he's having so perhaps it's really not as good for dogs as it is for us. I've been recommended burgess sensitive which seems quite middle of the road so think we'll try that. My old dog live a very long (18yrs) and happy life on frolic which is the worst of the worst on paper but I don't remember her ever having a single issue.

BiteyShark · 10/09/2017 12:07

Oops4 if it works for your dog then swop to a food with rice in it. We are the opposite as when the vet recommended chicken and rice his stomach was worse so we now don't feed any rice to him (chicken is fine).

Isthatwhatdemonsdo · 10/09/2017 15:35

Burns sensitive is good. Our lab has it and she's on daily meds for her stomach problems.

Cocobananas · 10/09/2017 20:47

PerfectlyChaotic, we feed Gentle in the evening and Naturediet in the morning. She has sausage and natures menu treats for training and a tripe stick or cows ear to settle down with in the evening, occasionally a raw marrowbone and always has a cows hoof around to chew, play with and hide around the house or garden(amuses her greatly). Poo is solid and twice a day without fail. Works for us😀

Cocobananas · 10/09/2017 20:50

Sorry, meant to say that I think the naturediet fills her more, always very relaxed after breakfast before her first walk. So maybe some good quality wet food for weight gain?

PerfectlyChaotic · 10/09/2017 21:57

Cocobananas that's really helpful, thank you (sorry for post hijack OP). How do you work out how much of each food to give? I know with the Gentle you need to be quite careful with amounts...

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