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Need some Poop advice!!
Vet says it is normal but I have my doubts! (about the vet and the poop)
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test
Posted: 6:25:28 PM 9/26/2006
Bailey, a 4 month old pug/beagle mix, has been pooping a WHOLE lot. I take her out in the morning around 5am when my bfriend leaves for work. At this time she will take a pee and poo. The poop is about 3 logs folded over in length and good shape. She will then have to go out around 8 or 9 am and will go poo and pee again. To me either one of those should have amounted for her morning poo, but to have 2 seems much to me. This carries on to where she is going once in the afternoon, then later afternoon, and then once again at night. Sometimes she will go twice at night.

Bailey is 13 lbs. I feed her Nutro Natures recipe, the one for sensitive stomachs. I just switched her to this food. She was on Nutro max for puppies. Her poop was more runny on the max one. The natures recipe seems to be making her constipated. I take her outside and she will go poo but then stop early and want to go inside, only to want back out an hr later.

Any advice on food I should try or what might be going on? I use her food for treats or sometimes give her some puppy bones for treats, but she doesn't eat anything else.

thanks in advance
test
Posted: 6:27:23 PM 9/26/2006
What is your feeding schedule?
test
Posted: 6:28:23 PM 9/26/2006
I am giving her 1/2 a cup of food 3 times a day
test
Posted: 6:33:51 PM 9/26/2006
It could be because of the switch. Did you switch her over gradually?

Give her some time to see how she does with it.
test
Posted: 6:46:59 PM 9/26/2006
We did the switch because she was pooping all the time and the consistancy of it was very mushy. Not runny but not completely solid either. Sometimes her poop would look like they were almost covered with snot. After the switch she is better but then again not really. Instead of having soft snotty poop she has solid pebble poops and seems constipated.

I just want her to have happy normal poop
test
Posted: 6:49:20 PM 9/26/2006
I'm not seeing what the problem is.... Too many bowel movements? Too much volume? The puppy is growing and processing alot of food. It has to go somewhere.

We have a puppy of similar age. We feed him only twice a day. I would expect one movement in the morning before breakfast, and at least one per meal.
test
Posted: 6:50:19 PM 9/26/2006
Neither of my dogs have ever had "normal" poop. Its always pretty soft. Thats not necessarily a bad thing. I wouldn't worry too much. Stick with the new food for a month or so and see how she is doing then. She coudl have a belly ache from switching too fast.
test
Posted: 6:52:24 PM 9/26/2006
I just thought that was a tad much for such a small dog. I also did make sure to switch the foods slowly mixing the one in and other out.
test
Posted: 6:53:20 PM 9/26/2006
Bailey -- Let me guess -- You don't have kids, do you?

Trust me -- you will drive yourself nuts if you try to interpret poops like reading tea leaves. If the puppy is well, and there is no sign of distress, RELAX.
test
Posted: 7:04:14 PM 9/26/2006
i think it's a good sign that your putting to much in.
test
Posted: 7:07:21 PM 9/26/2006
You need to trust your Vet 150%
If you do not trust what your vet says change your vet whom you could trust

I trust my Vet
test
Posted: 7:11:13 PM 9/26/2006
There is no such thing as 150%. Its either 100% or its not !! lol. That drives me nuts.

Anyway, you don't have to trust your vet with everything, nor should you. I always question my vet and get 2nd opinions. Its not that I don't trust them, I just want whats best.
test
Posted: 7:30:53 PM 9/26/2006
LOL
hehe No I do not have kids. I am 28 and not married. I tend to worry alot, got to work on that. This is also my first dog of my own and I want to make sure she is taken care of properly.


I am just very unsure of my vet or old vet shall I say. The reason for this is because every time I took bailey in there the lady kept going on about how she is going to fix her. But each time I remind her once again that my pup has already been fixed. This isn't the only thing that has happened, it is almost as if she never even looks at my dogs chart or even remembers her. The lady seems very impersonal and fake. During one visit she gave bailey 6 large treats. To me that was excessive. I like the place and will be seeing a different doctor in the same building.

***Edited By: Crazy Bailey on 9/26/2006 7:35:47 PM***
Reason: add
test
Posted: 11:04:29 PM 9/26/2006
When did you last de-worm your dog?
test
Posted: 11:10:28 PM 9/26/2006
Nutro tends to make them poop more. I expierienced it.
test
Posted: 3:20:43 AM 9/27/2006
What is a good brand of food to feed her then?

She was dewormed a month and a half ago. I do not see any worms in her stool, I make sure to check everytime.

thanks for all the help!
test
Posted: 6:59:18 AM 9/27/2006
Actually thelifeofriley, continueally soft poops can contribute to anal sac problems. That's because the pressure of poop passing beyond the anal sphincter muscle and the anal sacs puts enough pressure on them to 'naturally release' the sacs. It's yet another reason why poop stinks. :P
test
Posted: 2:22:52 PM 9/27/2006
I'll post it again here:

Beulah also always has soft poo. She is now on Natural balance duck and potato. I have switched trying to firm her up, and deal with skin allergies. Her skin looks great, still soft poo.

Minniyar... Beulah DOES occasionaly have anal sac issues. I do know it is related, but I have tried many foods and I have decided she just has runny poo.

Is that something I should NOT decide? I mean... argh!!!
:)

Bailey, I analyze Beulah's poo all the time. And her anal sac excrement, so ... well.. we are neurotic, it's ok.

Is there something I could give her as a supplement to firm her up? A spoonful of pumpkin with each meal???? what?
test
Posted: 3:28:42 PM 9/27/2006
Jackson used to poop 5 times a day when he was young. Now it is usually 3 times and Georgie twice a day. I do look at the poop and it can be a telling sign about their diet and their health. I don't stress over one runny or different looking poop but look for a trend. Eukanuba made Georgie have mushy poop.

I would not switch your dog right away. We fed Nutro when ours were puppies and they did fine. Look into different foods. Higher grade foods will give you less poop. Foods with higher percentages of grain will give you more poop.

Wellness, Artemis, Solid Gold, Candidae, Natural Balance are all examples of good foods. There are others out there that escape me right now. Nutro is more of a middle grade food from what I have read.
test
Posted: 3:55:55 PM 9/27/2006
I have 2 beagle mixes and I'm of the opinion that Beagle's just poop alot! My dogs go at least 3-4 times a day. Some days it's soft, some days it's hard... I just try to make sure to keep an eye on it and if I see anything COMPLETELY out of the norm... I call the vet.

If you don't trust your vet - find a different one. That's like taking your kid to a pediatrician that you think is an idiot...
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