HELP sheltie has gas

The chicken in the diet could well be the problem. Our boy had terrible gas that started out of the blue when he was 1 1/2 years. After much experimenting we found out the chicken in his food was the culprit, switched to lamb and rice and taadaa no more gas.
 
One thing I learned about bloat -- and by extension grumbly tummy and gassiness -- is there is a bloat "window". About a year give or take to about nine. Before or after that, tummies stay calmer. Shay also right about a year or so just went into a grumbly tummy time and I worked very hard to work through the variables to find his new adult stable tummy regimen.
 
My sheltie has gas

I try to feed my pup 3/4 cup twice a day. He is a big boy weighing 40 pounds. I have been giving yogurt with each meal and he still has gas. Can I give digestive enzymes and probiotics with the yogurt or only do one of them.seems like both my foods have chicken in them but I recently bought TOTW salmon. I don't want to upset his tummy even more but should I introduce little bits of the salmon food as I decrease the other foods?
 
wllmsjs615 said:
I try to feed my pup 3/4 cup twice a day. He is a big boy weighing 40 pounds. I have been giving yogurt with each meal and he still has gas. Can I give digestive enzymes and probiotics with the yogurt or only do one of them.seems like both my foods have chicken in them but I recently bought TOTW salmon. I don't want to upset his tummy even more but should I introduce little bits of the salmon food as I decrease the other foods?
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Unless he has an enzymatic deficiency, like a dog who has had pancreatitis, I doubt the enzymes do much good. The probiotics, however, may do a lot of good. I bought some for dogs, and mix it in my puppy's kibble. Another choice, is to buy the dog food brands that have probiotics added. Lastly, you could try yogurt with live culture, that might work as well.

I would also slowly add the new food and decrease the old food over two weeks to get him used to the new product and decrease the chance for upset.
 
Gas is generally caused, I think, by indigestible sugars, which are readily digested by microorganisms living in the gut. A good example in humans would be maltitol, which is used as a very sweet-tasting sugar substitute, but when ingested in other than tiny quantities causes major digestive upsets (go to amazon.com, do a search on "Haribo gummy candy" and read the reviews for some hilarious examples of this). For the dogs I'd say, keep them away from sugars and starches of all kinds, just as a general rule.

I once had a Brittany which, to my shame (I didn't know any better) I'd use as a garbage disposal. I'd give her chicken and noodles, after which she'd fart like a draft horse for the next eight hours, and I'd always blame it on the chicken. Wiser now, I'm fairly certain it was the noodles!
 
I try to feed my pup 3/4 cup twice a day. He is a big boy weighing 40 pounds. I have been giving yogurt with each meal and he still has gas. Can I give digestive enzymes and probiotics with the yogurt or only do one of them.seems like both my foods have chicken in them but I recently bought TOTW salmon. I don't want to upset his tummy even more but should I introduce little bits of the salmon food as I decrease the other foods?
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3/4 cup 2x a day is too much food. Perhaps not of what you were feeding (not sure the calorie count on that food), but TOTW for sure. Melli is a large girl and overweight at 38 pounds and she is getting 2/3 twice a day of Avoderm's diet food which has the lowest calories around. My 52 pound shepherd gets 1 cup two times a day of TOTW bison. I have recently gone from 3x a day to 2x a day feedings and it seems to work well for us. TOTW is a VERY high quality, calorie and protein packed food. You will want to cut that amount down when you switch. I would suggest dropping to 2/3 cup of TOTW and watch the scale to increase or decrease as you see the pup needs based on how thin or chubby he gets.

Yes, you can give the probiotics along with yogurt. We didn't do well on yogurt, threw it up, but we tried that first before moving into more intense probiotics. I just go with a probiotic/enzyme powder and it keeps the tummies calm.

Yes, start replacing portions of the meal slowly with the new food. First a small sprinkling and then start replacing some with the new food. TOTW is an extremely high quality food and most dogs can switch over kind of rapidly. It's garbage food to garbage food that can take up to about 2-3 weeks to fully settle in to the system. If you switched over in the course of about a week he should transition fine.
 
Mom2Melli said:
3/4 cup 2x a day is too much food. Perhaps not of what you were feeding (not sure the calorie count on that food), but TOTW for sure. Melli is a large girl and overweight at 38 pounds and she is getting 2/3 twice a day of Avoderm's diet food which has the lowest calories around..
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Hmm, I feed my Boots 2 x 3/4 cup of a 4-5 star food every day, and he's kept at a stable weight of 38-39.
Actually just came from the vet today, and he said he's at his perfect weight 41#, although last year I think he recommended him losing a few # for some reason.
And this is after the past month and a half of giving him 15 oz of sardines and Jack Mackeral in place of, and sometimes in addition to normal meals.
Went a little crazy when I found them at the dollar store and bough about $40 worth.

But Boots is at the dog park almost every day for at least 1.5-2 hrs, and can easily feel ribs on him.
 
Layla the Practically Perfect Princess gives off atrocious SBDs (Silent but Deadlies). She also burbs after every meal -- I call her my Belchin' Shepherd. :lol:
 
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