Gas Problems

[Diane Denney]

Well this isn't one of my favorite topics I just had to ask... My dogs have terrible gas including Lincoln my Goldendoodle. I feed them Blue Buffalo Large Breed, and Blue Buffalo canned Chicken and Brown Rice, Lamb, and Fish with Sweet Potato. I'm also letting them eat Pork raw hides, and give them Mother Hubbards biscuits. I never feed them table scraps or people food except maybe a real piece of chicken or beef or potato every now and then, but not often. Help I'm being fumigated on a daily basis!!!!

[Diane Denney]

Oh yeah corn is just a filler and makes them poop more.

[Bear's Mom]

Wow! Thanks for the advice! I keep him on teh blue seal because he has epilepsy and someone mentioned to me that the all natural foods will possibly help with that

[Allyson, Peri & Taquito]

Hey Bear's Mom - check out the Food Group for our favorite list of foods. A lot of the "all natural" foods are not the greatest - have fillers and lower quality meat meals. You will find a wealth of info in the group. It helps me on a daily basis.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

"All natural" means nothing...mold is all natural, lol. That's just a catch phrase used by crappy dog food companies to make you think the food is healthy or higher quality. We also have resources for epilectic dogs in the Health & Medical group.

[Everett Plummer]

Blue Seal is not a good food but Pupperoni is even worse. Here is a list of ingredients. There is hardly anything worthwhile in this "treat." Beef, Liver and Garlic are the only worthwhile ingredients in this and most of them are not only not worthwhile; they are very harmful.

Beef, Meat By-Products, Soy Grits, Sugar, Liver, Salt, Propylene Glycol, Garlic Powder, Caramel Color, Natural Smoke Flavor, Potassium Sorbate (used as a preservative),Sodium Nitrite (for color retention), Red 40, BHA (used as a preservative), Onion Extract.

[Karen Klempel]

Our labradoodle puppy had a lot of gas while on Eukanuba puppy (chicken and rice) and Nature's Recipe puppy (chicken and rice). We found out she has a food allergy so the vet switched her to a fish based food. She's now on Blue Buffalo Fish & Sweet potato. Allergy is better and very little gas now. Situation much improved.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Well, you made a good choice switching her from 2 really bad foods; but she didn't have a food allergy. Gastrointestinal symptoms are never indicative of allergies...rather, she may have had a food intolerance.
Food allergies are relatively rare, and never show up in puppies who have been eating any food for less than 6 motnhs to a year. And the symptoms of any kind of allergy in a dog, food or otherwise, involve the skin, not the gastrointestinal system.
At any rate, you definitely made a change for the better.

[Karen Klempel]

perhaps we had two issues going on. The gas was the symptom I could have lived with. The skin infection, and double ear infection is what caused us to go to the vet in the first place. They put Sara on Iams vet formulary food (fish based) for two months and skin dramatically improved (and the gas). We are now trying Blue Buffalo fish/sweet potato and hoping it agrees with her as well. It's a bit cheaper than the vet food, but hopefully a good choice for her.

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

1000 times better than the vet food. Maybe 10,000 times. We have a discussion in the Food Group about the veterinary garbage formulas, too.

[Bear's Mom]

So does anyone have a reccomendation for an Active 3 year Old? Like we all know, he's got some major GAS ISSUES but I also want to keep him on something that may help with the epilepsy...any suggestions would be appreciated!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Orijen, Acana, EVO, Innova, Fromm, Solid Gold, California Naturals.

[Diane Denney]

Off the subject a little bit..., but my cats all had to go on a veterinary diet because my cat Abbey has allergies to food. She is on the Royal Canin HypoAllergenic dry diet, and Hills ZD canned. Thankfully I feed my other two cats Wellness wet food to supplement. I've seen all kinds of suggestions for a dry food, but none of them seem practical or readily available...I think the allergy is chicken or fish as she got into some of the Wellness Herring and Chicken and Chicken that I feed my other cats, and she flared up a bit. She had rodent ulcers (not from a rodent, just what it's called), and they are gone now and her skin cleared up on the vet food. I'm afraid to try anything else now.