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So, we have had Zoey for about 4 months now and she has had consistently soft stools every since we've had her. When we got her from the humane society she was eating Science Diet puppy and we got a small bag to take home with her. After about a week I started transitioning her to TOTW High Prairie Puppy. She was on that for almost 8 weeks, and from what I can remember her stool was ok, but not great. After that she was transitioned to Diamond Naturals Lamb and Rice Puppy, ate that for about 6 weeks. She had a dry coat and soft stools. So I decided to try TOTW Pacific Stream Puppy. Well them TOTW was recalled and I was back and forth on if I should keep her on it or not because our bag was recalled and finally decided to take it back and switched her cold turkey to Nature's Variety Prairie Chicken and Brown Rice (which is what Luke was eating at the time). Her coat is nice and shiny, she seems less itchy than she has in the past, but still has the soft stools.
Sorry for the novel, but the NVP Chicken is almost gone and I'm not sure what I should do. She's been eating it for 4 weeks now and its the constant soft stools with the occasional day of diarrhea.. I love rotating foods for my dogs. Luke handles rotations really well, I can switch him cold turkey if I need to. But maybe she doesn't? Maybe I need to slow down with her? I'm at the point where I feeding minimal treats, kongs and chews just to see if it's anything related to that. I've tried feeding less of the foods and sometimes that helps a little but doesn't clear it up. Plus she's so lean and almost too skinny that I'm afraid to reduce her food too much. I started adding a spoonful of pumpkin a week ago and I thought it was helping until a nice big pile of diarrhea poo tonight! Ugh! So I'm kind of torn...keep her on the NVP Chicken and see if she adjusts to it? Or try something new again again....and what? (Luke is now eating Earthborn Holistic Coastal Catch)
I was thinking about going back to a TOTW and keeping her on that for awhile, but I'm not sure where everything is at with the recalls. Not sure if I should try something GF or grain inclusive, or a specific protein, maybe go with something fish based since she hasn't had that yet. Ugh, just so many options and I'm so sick of the soft poop!! It smells horrible as well and she has nasty farts as well. Thanks for any advice!
Edited to add: I try to stay under $50 for about 30 lbs of food.
Sorry for the novel, but the NVP Chicken is almost gone and I'm not sure what I should do. She's been eating it for 4 weeks now and its the constant soft stools with the occasional day of diarrhea.. I love rotating foods for my dogs. Luke handles rotations really well, I can switch him cold turkey if I need to. But maybe she doesn't? Maybe I need to slow down with her? I'm at the point where I feeding minimal treats, kongs and chews just to see if it's anything related to that. I've tried feeding less of the foods and sometimes that helps a little but doesn't clear it up. Plus she's so lean and almost too skinny that I'm afraid to reduce her food too much. I started adding a spoonful of pumpkin a week ago and I thought it was helping until a nice big pile of diarrhea poo tonight! Ugh! So I'm kind of torn...keep her on the NVP Chicken and see if she adjusts to it? Or try something new again again....and what? (Luke is now eating Earthborn Holistic Coastal Catch)
I was thinking about going back to a TOTW and keeping her on that for awhile, but I'm not sure where everything is at with the recalls. Not sure if I should try something GF or grain inclusive, or a specific protein, maybe go with something fish based since she hasn't had that yet. Ugh, just so many options and I'm so sick of the soft poop!! It smells horrible as well and she has nasty farts as well. Thanks for any advice!
Edited to add: I try to stay under $50 for about 30 lbs of food.