How many times a day does your dog poo?

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And is there any way to reduce/consolidate them?

My small dog poops 4 or 5 times a day. Not huge volumes of poop. I have to take him out for a walk for this and it always takes a while. He has to walk rapidly first to move his bowels I think.

The first two happen on the morning walk and he's usually done both within 40 minutes. He'll poo within 5 or 10 minutes then again in another 20 to 30 minutes. The morning walk is an hour or more. This is the most predictable walk/poo of the day.

Then in the middle of the day I'll take him for a quick walk so he can sniff and wee. Sometimes he will poo within a short time. Sometimes he will act like he needs to poo but won't unless I walk him for an hour or something. Maybe he just won't poo or maybe I give up/run out of time before he poos.

Then there's usually two poos in the evening. It can take an hour or so. Sometimes he will only poo once in that hour. Sometimes I'll take him out to poo once and take him out again in a couple of hours and maybe he will poo then. Maybe he won't!

All of these walks take a minimum of 15 minutes. Most take significantly longer. (He might poo 20 minutes from home so then it's 20 minutes back.)

I often take him on a non poo-ductive walk and then he mithers to go a couple of hours later. It might take 6 walks ranging from 30 minutes to an hour + to get him done for the day.

I don't mind walking my dog. I like the long morning walk. But I don't know how I can get my wfh job done if I'm having to take breaks for indeterminate lengths of time all day long.

Does anyone have experience getting their dog to be more regular?

I was feeding him 3x a day and now I'm splitting his food into two feeds in hopes of reducing the number of bowel movements. I don't care about the volume of his poos, but the frequency/regularity.

Unless he's under 6 months dont feed him 3 times a day. Other than that he'll poo when he poos

Maximum of 3 usually twice , he’s elderly and has got into a habit of going out between 1:30/2:30 am and that is when he does the third one although it’s generally just a wee . We feed twice a day 8/9 am and 5 pm .

2 or three. Once after she is fed at 8, once on our walk later on the morning and sometimes one in the afternoon. She gets fed again at 6. She is a Labrador.

Twice a day, for the most part. Once in the morning (either in the garden or on his walk) and then his second is in the garden at some point in the evening - we let him out whenever he asks - normally every 2-3 hours, though he can hold it forever if the weather is bad

He only gets one walk a day - he's six.

Not having a garden, I have to take him out for a walk.

I just took him out for an hour and he poo'd once. It's only just gone 6:30. This morning he had his two, then nothing on his midday walk. I think he might want to go again later but I don't think that's going to be a great routine in the winter! He does hate to go out in the wet, but I force him.

Only on his daily walk, but 2 or 3 times .

Have you ever taught him to toilet on command?

Our dog makes it his life's mission to shit himself empty every walk! So I get 2-3 (of decreasing size, TMI!) in the morning and DH gets a couple in the afternoon.

2-3, gets fed twice a day

No. I got him as an adult dog. He's an intact male, still, and he likes to take his time sniffing and marking as he goes along.

I don't think he can poop on command. I honestly think he needs to trot along until he's ready.

We have a four year old lab and she gets fed 3 times a day. We kept this from when she was a puppy as it seems to stop her grazing or eating something she shouldn’t as her food is staged during the day. So we have 3 poops a day, one in the morning one in the afternoon and a nighttime poop. I appreciate all dogs/labs are different but works for us!

None of that should mean you can't train him.

Every time he goes for a poo, add a command to it (we use "go toilet") then loads of praise and a treat. Eventually you should be able to take him out, say the command and he'll go. Obviously you can't force them to go if they don't need to, but it'll give you an idea of whether he needs to go or not and should make things easier for you.

There really shouldn't be any need to walk him for ages every time you want him to poo.

DDog get ls fed twice a day and pops 3 times. Straight after breakfast, again around 9 am and then again after tea. She's like clockwork.

Twice. Once in the morning and once in the evening.

We feed our dachsund twice a day. He'll poo after breakfast without fail but rarely when dh takes him out before dinner. I'm home for 230 and we go straight out. I always get three poos.
But then he won't go again till the next morning.

Poos once a day. Fed twice a day, raw fed. But she's a Rhodesian Ridgeback so definitely not small 🤣

What breed? We have a Maltese who likes to do 3-5 poos sometimes on his walk plus some in the garden, but he's a wee anxious fella. Seems to think we like collecting the (often tiny) poos. Cost us a lot to get him checked by the vet and it's just him. Very fussy with food, no relation to how often or what he is fed. Will wee on command but his craps are off the chain.
And also have a cockapoo who does one giant poo only everyday and would eat anything and everything in his sight.

Twice. If you feed a high carb food there will be more poo. It’s a fact. They can also stress poo.

A higher calorie food (so, less volume overall) should result in smaller poops. I agree with pp regarding teaching a command to "go" - of course dogs like to sniff and go as they like, marking along, but just like some men like to take a magazine to the toilet and read for an hour, they are perfectly capable of just pooing (provided there's poo, of course!).
Ddog would only go once a day, but she was the pickiest of eaters so I wouldn't exactly use her as an example to follow.

About 95. But she is 14 and has spinal damage so doesn't have full control anymore.

3 usually

Hmmm. On an average 3 mile walk he will do around ten. I think he's taking the piss. Then there's the ones at home.

On a ten minute walk he will do at least 3. His only redeeming feature (other than the cuteness and love obviously) is that he usually poos right next to a poo bin.

2 small poos per day. Raw fed.

One small poo a day, raw fed.

If i feed her biscuits or mix them in her food shell go more, theyll be bigger and smellier

Once a day maybe, she's a big Romanian rescue fed on raw food but she doesn't poo much considering her size