Puppy Pooh

[sandgrubber]

I have a litter that's 5 weeks and 4 days. This is the first litter I've tried on Pedigree Advance . . . started with the general puppy and have recently switched to Large Breed (they're Labradors). I have pretty consistently had sloppy poohs, and am just starting to get the kind you can pick up rather than scraping. If I remember right, the poohs have gone solid earlier with other foods. But my memory often plays tricks.

What sort of patterns have others observed? Does it have anything to do with what you're feeding? Or maybe summer litters are different than winter litters?

[Missymoo]

I had one litter that was sloppy on Advance and another premium food..I actually ended putting them on Pedigree puppy crap and poohs solid up...oh also check for worm burden first, that can give pups the slops too..

[WreckitWhippet]

I used to get sloppy puppy poo on commerical diets.

I now start them on a diet of mainly raw, they are well formed poo , basically the day they start on it.

[Ozstar]

I start feeding my guys around the 3-4 week mark using Eagle Pack Puppy and have always had solid poohs.

Leanne

[becks]

i've always used royal canin puppy food and not had sloppy poos.

I would be worried if pups were producing yellow bears who eat honey though!

Edited February 14, 2010 by becks

[Bilbo Baggins]

I use pedigree ans always have firm stools. Even frim at the mo nearly 2 weeks old. Mum is not a good poo eater.

[oakway]

The only time I have had problems is when I was kindly given a bag of Pedigree re-hydratable and then switched them over to a raw diet with no problems what so ever.

Edited February 15, 2010 by oakway

[ellz]

Optimum puppy here with some raw....mince initially, then bones, veges etc. No runnies here! In fact ALMOST the opposite. Was probably only the oils in the fish that kept things moving along ok.

But somebody really needs to tell Koda that she doesn't HAVE to keep cleaning up after them when I've taken over! There's something about a bitch cleaning up after 6 week old puppies that really turns my stomach.

[Ozstar]

But somebody really needs to tell Koda that she doesn't HAVE to keep cleaning up after them when I've taken over! There's something about a bitch cleaning up after 6 week old puppies that really turns my stomach.

Storm still toilets Flame and she is 1

Leanne

[ellz]

But somebody really needs to tell Koda that she doesn't HAVE to keep cleaning up after them when I've taken over! There's something about a bitch cleaning up after 6 week old puppies that really turns my stomach.

Storm still toilets Flame and she is 1

Leanne

Lick n sniff I can deal with (as long as I remember to turn my face away when it is kissy face time! :D) It's the HOOVERING that turns me!!!!!! And especially because quite often after the vaccuuming is done, she'll wander over and casually regurgitate it on my foot!

[MolassesLass]

I would be worried if pups were producing yellow bears who eat honey though! :D

I start on raw so can't help.

[Mystiqview]

I have started mine on Advance rehydrate mixed with milk replacer to make a sloppy porridge. It gradually thickens up until the kibble goes to moist to dry.

I may add mince or something with the porridge in the early days. Or shove gobs of mince down their throats when fist starting them on solid food.

I have only once had problem with sloppy stools. That was because the bitch was on puppy as well and her milk may have been too rich. I swapped her back to normal adult and let her eat what she wanted (I do not have hoovers, so was ok to do so) and the stools on the pups picked up.

You find once you start worming too, they can be sloppy for a couple of days.