Need suggestions for soft poop -

No idea what to feed my poor girl??? Suggestions needed. Heres the bacground:

My puppy is is 13 weeks old and currently weighs 13.5 lbs. (at 10 weeks she was 10.5 lbs) She is an energetic puppy and seems to be happy and healthy.

She has basically had soft poop since I brought her home at 8 weeks. At first I thought it was just the stress of the changing homes. We were feeding blue buffalo and poo went from soft to watery rather quickly.

At 10 weeks old the vet did a fecal which was negative so we changed food to Hills ID. That seemed to work initially but then after a few days it went back to soft - not watery, just mushy pudding looking.

At 13 weeks, vet gave the ok to change food - tried Fromm Puppy food. Slowly transited over 5 days and it's back to mushy, pudding poop. During these 5 days vet also had us deworm. She also slept ALOT today, just didnt seem like her normal puppy self. I was feeding her 1 cup of Fromm twice a day. This seemed like enough as she usually wasnt finishing it.

This morning I gave her the id and her poop was a better color and had more form than it's had in a long time. Not normal poop by any means but better. She seems to be feeling better.

I spoke with my trainer and she doesnt like the the id. She wants me to go back to the fromm and add a brobiotic.

What do you all think?? It seems like all the foods are too rich for her tummy.

I also give her pigs her - do these mess with the tummy. She really needs them during those crazy zoomie hours.

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Permalink Reply by Laura and Angus on July 29, 2015 at 11:49am

We found out the hard way :( But now we use a lot of their inedible bones (the hard kind that can't break apart) and Angus loves them! Cheaper than antlers...though he loves those too :)

Permalink Reply by Shari Becker on July 29, 2015 at 12:04pm

Yes, ours is not edible. It's a plastic set that literally looks like a pacifier. It is not new .... Lexi has never been interested in the other hard, plastic chew toys too much. But we keep trying! There are some non toxic companies that makes some rubbery toys, that are good for gnawing, too... Drawing a blank on the name, but Lexi has liked those a lot... we just keep losing them.

Permalink Reply by Stella on July 31, 2015 at 4:12pm

And some (but not all) of the Nylabone non-edible chews are now manufactured in the USA! Check the packaging carefully, some still come from China.

Permalink Reply by Marie + Marshall on July 31, 2015 at 6:09pm

This sounds like my life until we switched to wellness CORE puppy. And also just in case a dog doesn't like pumpkin (ours doesn't), if needed we use sweet potatoes cooked in the microwave mashed up. He loves them. Also Marshall LOVES Benebones.

Permalink Reply by Emery & Watson on August 5, 2015 at 6:59am

This also sounds like my Watson. He is 12 weeks now and had been to the vet, checked for worms, twice, been on a bland diet and slowly transitioned him back to Canidae Pure Foundations Puppy-- but his poop was still mushy. It was formed, which was better than he was when we first brought him home but still mushy. Canned organic pumpkin (not the pie filler) helped only marginally.

Finally, I tried to cut out all the treats from his diet and it made his poop better but still not great.

I've started to transition him to Wellness CORE Puppy this week and its starting to look much better and improving by the day.

From the recommendations here, I'm also going to start putting Proviable DC in his food.

Permalink Reply by Jessica, Loki and Moose on August 5, 2015 at 7:43pm

Moose came home with goopy poop that quickly became poop soup and the Proviable DC saved us. He was on two round of Pancur and the vet recommended giving the Porviable KP along with the Proviable DC, I spaced them out and since I started with those two I have no idea if the KP did anything but his poop got better!

Permalink Reply by Katie on August 7, 2015 at 3:37pm