Dalmatian farts...help!! how can I stop these??!!

IferHadaRichMan

My mate has a gorgeous 7 month old Dalmatian puppy, he's lovely but a total nutcase. And he farts ALL of the time. Not only that they really seem to smell bad.

We've tried charcoal biscuits but they haven't seemed to do anything apart from turn his poo black (lol), this was advice from the vet section in our local Pets At Home store. They also advised us to avoid feeding him beef or chicken flavour food. We buy him James Wellbeloved food so he's currently eating fish, duck or occasionally lamb flavour kibble, but its not making any difference to the adorable but stinky pooch _pale_

Any suggestions on how to freshen up the dog's bottom would be gratefully appreciated!!!

djtonyb

Natural Yogurt.

My mum's dog get chronic farts when he's not been given natural yogurt. A couple a tablespoons a day calms the smell (but not necessarily the wind)

lil_me

Asked a friend who's dog we named Windy what she used as she has almost cured her dog from it

She said the following tried, tested, work well

Raising dogs bowl from floor, helping them digest it better without excess wind prevents the food tract being pulled to an odd angle which prevents the ingestion or indigestion of air causing a build-up of wind

Products tried & helped

http://www.simplyk9.co.uk/products/mandc-treats-digestive.htm

http://www.simplyk9.co.uk/products/mandc-treats-travel.htm

Tried and tested many dogs foods, they found Wagg was the best, even states on the label about gassy issues.

IferHadaRichMan

thank you we're willing to try anything!! :T

scheming_gypsy

lil_me wrote: »

Tried and tested many dogs foods, they found Wagg was the best, even states on the label about gassy issues.

Wagg makes my dog fart worse than me, and that's saying something!!

lil_me

scheming_gypsy wrote: »

Wagg makes my dog fart worse than me, and that's saying something!!

Maybe you should try some :rotfl: . Just kidding of course, suppose depends on the dog really.

sparklymessygirl

Hi there,

I'd echo Lil_me's suggestion of raising the bowl - I feed one of my doberman's on the second step of the stairs. I also feed smaller meals at more frequent intervals. It seems to help but hasn't eliminated it all - but I think it has a lot to do with my dogs eating grass - they graze like cows!

Sparkly

kr15snw

May need to try some of this, our male springer has this problem and god its terrible. Its just the smell suddenly hits you! I dont think Ive ever smelt anything so vile coming from that area of the body! lol

frosty

you could try charcoal biscuits from the pet shop,I think Bonio make them.

clutterbunny

We found that the dog food had too much vegetable protene in it. We switched to the BARF diet and It has worked wonders and it is cheep too. (Biologically Apropriant Raw Food = BARF)

HTH CB

LucyLoo2_3

lil_me wrote: »

Tried and tested many dogs foods, they found Wagg was the best, even states on the label about gassy issues.

Please, please do not change your puppy to Wagg, it is the worst dog food out there, it contains very little nutritional value and I very much doubt it will correct your wind problem!

Generally with this problem I would recommend changing food but JWB is a very good food, although I notice you change flavour? My 2 7 month old pups are fed on Wainwrights puppy food (similar to JWB) Turkey and rice gives one really bad wind, but the Salmon and potato they are both fine! Just a process of elimination! Also is the dog given many treats? Could have something to do with those maybe?