Best food for puppy with sensitive stomach?

becca0417

My puppy is 8 months old & we have been feeding him Wainwrights Junior dry food since has been old enough. Wet food upset his tummy but now this seems to be too. We've ruled out everything else & taken him to vets so thinking it may now be this.
Can anyone recommend a good dry food?

krlyr

Has the vet tested his stool to rule out bacterial infections, e.g. campylobacter?

lee111s

It could be a certain ingredient. One of mine can't have anything chicken related, the other doesn't tollerate lamb! Try and rule out certain proteins.

I feed mine on james wellbeloved ocean white fish and rice

Raksha

It also may not be the food at all, but stress if the pup is a sensitive soul.

becca0417

Sorry I haven't been feeding him Wainwrights at all... I've been feeding him James Wellbeloved!!

Next step with vet is to test his stools, will see how he goes over today & tomorrow. It's been all of a sudden though & we did change the flavour of his food.

Don't think it's stress ... I'm on maternity leave so he's very rarely left & he's a really chilled out happy dog

Gettin256

my pup can't eat wet either, must have vomited ten times one night so we cut that out all together. we've had her on Beta puppy large breed for a couple of months now and haven't had any problems at all.

zaxdog

Our wee lurcher had/has a really delicate tummy. The two suggestions I'd give are:

1. Chappie wet food mixed with a little ripped up brown bread

2. Wilson's sheepdog dry mix with a little warm water and a bit of Chubb stirred in.

He was best on the second option and is now fine but my Dad who was a dog handler always used the first option for any working dogs with sensitive tummies.

Good luck xxx

joansgirl

My Lab's 9 months and she'd had runny yellow poo for nearly a week. I put her on chicken and rice and she was fine but every time I tried her on the dried (Wainwrights Large Breed Puppy, which she'd been having since 8 weeks old with no problems) the runs came back. To cut a long story short it turned out that the puppy food was too rich for her so she's now on adult food and her poo's the best it's ever been. I had quite a lot of the puppy food left so tried to sneak a bit in with the adult and as soon as I did the runs came back. So it's been binned now.


With hindsight I realised that my previous dog had exactly the same problem at 10 months. He too went onto adult food as a result.