Happy Holiday all...a little assistance please. Dakota is a 4 year old Lab Pit mix. She is probably about 5 to 10 lbs overweight. Not fat by any means but can still lose a few.
She eats only 1 cup of kibble 2 times each day. This is not a lot of food. She may also get a couple of treats every day. Table food is extremely rare. Oh yes I have been feeding Wellness Core and have recently switched to Blue Buffalo because Jeter seems to do better on that and Dakota is fine with it too.
Dakota is also pooping in the bathroom in the middle of the night on and off over the last few weeks. It is becoming more consistent of late. So I am wondering, considering her being overweight and now the late pooping, should I think about eliminating the evening feeding for her?
The only fly in the ointment is that Jeter eats twice per day and the late feeding will be tough only feeding him and not Dakota.
Thanks Connie...it's logs. Her poop looks very healthy. She just has taken to doing her business in the bathroom Sometimes she urinates there as well.Its always in the middle of the night.
The dogs sleep in the bedroom with my wife and I and the bathroom is right off our bedroom. We keep the bedroom door closed at night while we are sleeping so the dogs don't wander around the house
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I would consider putting her back on the Wellness to see fi that solves the problem. I just finished a bag of Blue Buffalo grain-free, and noticed Chula's BM's were larger than normal, although not more frequent. (she gets 1 1/3 cups, 2 x per day...I feed her the same amount for all grain-free kibbles)
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Thanks Connie...it's logs. Her poop looks very healthy. She just has taken to doing her business in the bathroom Sometimes she urinates there as well.Its always in the middle of the night. ...
Gotta jump in. She hasn't "taken to doing it." She is in the bathroom when she has to go.
The thing is to figure out why the added and/or time-changed potty episodes (both types).
Which recipe food is it, BTW? Is it Blue Buffalo Wilderness Diet, chicken flavor? Do you know about the problem with that food's apparent link to hypercalcemia and related increased thirst/urinating?
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Which recipe food is it, BTW? Is it Blue Buffalo Wilderness Diet, chicken flavor? Do you know about the problem with that food's apparent link to hypercalcemia and related increased thirst/urinating?
I moved away from the Wellness because jeter's stool is always loose. he had a stomach infection and even after he finished the meds that the vet gave him his stool is still very loose.
As soon as I switched to the BB it improved. Now I find this out about the BB.
Any other foods you might recommend
. I have to find what works for both dogs. I would rather not have 2 different foods.
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Does Wellness come in small bags? I'm thinking I might be inclined to trial one or two of the other Wellness (not Core) recipes.
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I'd probably consider the Core mixed with a different Wellness food, too (being a big fan of variety, anyway): I'd try adding in small amounts of Core (after Jeter's poop was confirmed to be good logs on the non-Core). Just a thought.
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You might find it easier to feed each dog the food that they handle well, rather than expecting there is a magic formula out there that will work for both.
It sounds like pooping in the bathroom at night is a different problem from weight gain but both might be related to feeding schedules. I feed my dogs once a day and can pretty much predict when they are going to need to poop. When I want to change the pooping schedule, I change the feeding schedule. If one of my dogs was pooping in the house for any reason, I would be addressing that situation as a separate issue. Not only for the sake of the dog's wellbeing, but also the health conditions in the house.
Next week I start teaching and am going to be away during their regular poop window (9 am to 11 am). I'm going to start feeding them at midday in hopes they will be well evacuated by the time I leave in the morning.
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