Do Doodle Have Sensitive Tummies?

[Carol and Banjo]

This may be a repeat of a past discussion, but it's been on my mind a lot lately.   It seems that Banjo has "issues" with his digestive system every few months.  Namely, very loose stool which requires several trips outside in the middle of the night and a diet of rice, ground beef and pumpkin for a couple of days.  Thankfully nothing really serious.  I can never pinpoint what may have caused it, I watch him carefully when we're outside and don't think it's something he gets into....but anything is possible I guess.  

It seems that one or another of our DK members has a doodle going through tummy troubles almost daily......so my question is....is it the Doodles....the breed.....or do all breeds suffer the same problem?     I've had several different breeds in my life time and I don't ever remember having to deal with this on such a regular basis.   I also wasn't as careful about feeding a good diet (mainly my own ignorance) and wasn't as vigilant about what the dogs got into when outside.  

I'd like to hear what others think about this.  

[Carol and Banjo]

Very true......and since I've never belonged to any other forum....doggie related or otherwise I have nothing to compare to.   I still am inclined to think that digestive issues may be fairly common in this breed.   But I have nothing to base this on.

[Dana]

Jackson had a lot of loose stool as a puppy but it got better as he aged.  Its funny because I am dealing with some tummy issues with him as well right now.  He will be 1 on Friday and probably hasn't an accident in the house since he was like 5 months.  Well Monday I come home from work to a very strong smell...I don't think I need to elaborate what kind of smell that was.  So I go downstairs (we have him in an area with a baby gate around him) and there was diarrhea everywhere.  On him, the tile floor, the baby gate...OMD it was everywhere!  Well after cleaning, bleaching, scrubbing for over 2 hours, and 2 more diarrhea episodes, I needed to try and get his tummy under control.  So for the last 2 days he's only had rice and chicken and today I started mixing his puppy food back in.  I have no idea what caused this and probably will never know.  I felt so bad cause he clearly couldn't hold it and had to go in his area.  His stool is better..still not completely normal but getting there.   

[Lisa, Daisy & Dexter]

Yes yes yes, at least Daisy does. If we stray one iota away from her regular food, treat she gets loose...then we give her Pumpkin for a day and she's back to normal.

Treats for training has always been a problem, first she is picky and second she gets an upset tummy. Thankfully she does well with her new homemade chicken jerky!

Daisy also does the gag a bile in the morning if we don't keep her exactly on the 7:30 AM feeding.

[Kaytlin and Cooper]

having worked in a pet food store for almost 2 years, I can tell you its very common in dogs in general, not just doodles. 

Cooper thankfully has a stomach of steel!

[Adina P]

I don't think it's a 'doodle' thing.  I think it's something you see on forums because people don't discuss a lack of GI troubles, they only discuss issues.  I've had three F1 LD's (Rosco, Thule, and Boca) and none of them have had regular tummy troubles despite eating some abominable things.  IF it was a doodle thing, given that there are different kinds of doodles out there it would have to be either a poodle thing or a retriever thing since the ONE thing all have in common is poodle.

[Julie, Izzie & Max]

I have two labradoodles. Neither have had any stomach issues or allergies.

[Sue, Murphy and Bella ()*o*()]

It would take some very broad based research for probably several generations of many many breeds to really say for certain. We are only a small community of one type of breed/breed mix. As %'s go, it may be average for any breed to have a certain number who will get tummy issues from certain foods or things they consume.

Adina's right, we don't usually need to vent or share issues about all the GD or LD that have a lack of GI problems. My two are both fine, hardly ever get upset tummies and if so, I almost always know what the offensive agent was, be it food or non food, and try to avoid it again. Is that a goldendoodle issue or just a general dog issue? In our case, I pretty much figure all dogs would barf up socks and plastic toy pieces. Maybe because our breed eats them is the problem, not the tummy.

[Jennifer,Chloe & Myla]

I think we've been pretty lucky with our 2 for the most part. Every now and then Chloe will have some loose or mushy ones but it goes away in a couple days and she eats and drinks fine. I feel bad for all the doods that have tummy issues.

[Janice Hammond]

We have been very fortunate with Sadie. She is 5 now and has never had any GI problems really.In fact she has never vomited at all .She had diarrhea once.She was on a bit of an afternoon errands run with my husband when she got very restless in the vehicle.Thank goodnes he finally caught on and got her outside in the nick of time.