Eating/Pooping

[2dog1cat]

If you just switched his food over without mixing it with the old stuff, your poor guy can get an upset stomach and diarreah, which is probably what happened.

You have 2 options:
-mix the new food in with old food gradually! so the switchover isn't as severe
or
-cook some white rice to a VERY SLOPPY consistancy and mix it in with the new food half and half, remembering to take out the same amount of dog food as you are putting in rice. Do this for about a week.

Feed him only twice a day, put the food down for 15 min and if he doesn't eat it all, pick it up and nothing til dinner.

Forget the canned dog food for now. I'm not sure but I don't think Mighty Dog is very good anyway. Stick with the kibble and rice

Feed him earlier as well , by about 6 or 7 and pick up the water dish at 7ish

Congrats on your lab, they're wonderful dogs. and good luck with the food

[Luvin Labs]

Well, when we DIDN'T mix his old/new food, he didn't have diarrhea... it was when we mixed his old and new food together that he hurled and had diarrhea...

for some reason he doesn't really like eating dry food, which is why we got the canned food.

[LorraineO]

p.s. he does have some food aggression problems (growled when my b/f was patting his head while he was chewing on a meat bone we got from Petco)... [/B][/QUOTE]

that couldalso be some good old fashioned dominance going on there too.... My dobie girl used to be like that when we first got her,,, now we can reach into her mouth when she has a bone with no worries,,,,, She knows WE are Alpha andwhen we want something,, we get it!!!

[Luvin Labs]

he has stopped with the food aggression... I think it was because it was the first few days of being in a new home, he hasn't growled about food since then