Frequent Pooping?

[MonicanHonda]

LabLover... I hope you don't think I am being too confrontational or rude... I by no means mean to. Nutrition is just something I feel VERY strongly about... I even want to become a DVM and specialize in Nutrition. I just think it's sad that vets are expected to know everything about everything... when I don't think they should have to know about nutrition... because they really don't.

Again, I'm sorry, and I don't mean to make it sound like your opinion doesn't matter here, it does. I'm just very passionate and sometimes it makes me become a loud mouth. :-X Lol

[*LabLoverKEB*]

No problem. We had our nutrition portion in school about 3 months ago, and learned about many different kinds of pet foods. I'm not in any way saying science diet is the best food, but I do believe they make great foods for animals that help maintain their health issues!
I agree with corn as an ingredient, many animals are allergic to it, and it's just a filler that really doesn't do anything. I'll mention California Natural to my instructor, thanks!

[wolf_Q]

No idea if it's just my dogs or not but I switched them from Wellness Lamb to Avoderm Lamb and I'm not sure if they actually poop less frequently but they are considerably smaller poops, with all three dogs. They've done really well on it too, its sold at Petco for sure likely at Petsmart too.

[MonicanHonda]

Oh, are you in vet school??!!! Or tech school or something!??!! Ugh, I'm nervous because I apply this summer/fall. >.>

I like Avoderm too... good food, but I don't think it's at Petsmart... I think really the only good foods Petsmart sells is Blue Buffalo and I think they just started selling Castor and Pullox which isn't bad.

[dab_20]

Thanks everyone for the info and comments. I have seen Blue Buffalo there and they have commercials on TV now too... I may look into that!

[dab_20]

What do you guys know about Royal Canin? My brother feeds that to Springen, it has a kind that is especially for Boxers. Good or no?

[king2005]

digi poops once a day & its really small & well formed... I spend about $7/week or less for her raw diet. she lovs it & has no allergy reactions to it cause i can control it 100% this way.

[bckrazy]

What do you guys know about Royal Canin? My brother feeds that to Springen, it has a kind that is especially for Boxers. Good or no?

Royal Canin and Science Diet are both VERY BAD foods... they consist primarily of lower-than-cattle-feed-grade fillers, and the little "meats" they use are rejected scraps. Nutro Ultra is just a step above that, as it's still packed with grains and has very low meat content at all.

Corn Meal
Chicken By-product Meal
Animal Fat
Soybean Mill Run

Those are the first 4 ingredients in SD, and it gets worse from there. Chemicals, common allergens, etc. Nutro contains 3 types of rice in the first 4 ingredients, making the food primarily rice!!! That's a nutty price to pay for a rice-based dog food. This just doesn't seem like food that a carnivore should be eating, does it? A canine can only digest at MOST 25% of grains/plants. The rest of it is going to be converted into excessive, yucky poops. When you feed grain free, poops will be small, firm, and much less frequent. My dogs poop once or twice a day, never more, and they're very small.

I love Orijen & Acana... it costs $12 for a 5.5 lb bag of it, so it's about $2/lb. Same as Nutro Ultra! And you will be feeding much, much less of it. The ingredients speak for themselves.

Fresh deboned chicken, chicken meal, turkey meal, russet potato, fresh deboned pacific salmon (a natural source of DHA and EPA), herring meal, sweet potato, peas, fresh deboned lake whitefish, fresh deboned northern walleye

If you can't get Orijen or Acana, Wellness CORE is a low cost, quality grain free option.

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Oh, are you in vet school??!!! Or tech school or something!??!! Ugh, I'm nervous because I apply this summer/fall. >.>

Didn't see this until now.... oops!! I'm in a veterinary technology program. I will be an RVT! (Registered Veterinary Technician).