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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  I would have thought such a meat-intensive diet would produce very hard, infrequent stools. Hm. Soft stools and gas would indicate high fiber to me. You only feed meat? |
I do feed mostly meat, a few tiny shreds of cheese, the freeze dried lamb (just started that a couple of months ago, but she was gassy before that), Yorkie Yummies as a treat so she has something hard to crunch on. The only other thing that she will eat a few pieces of during the day is some Dad's Homestyle dog food, but I don't like her to have a lot of that since it has a lot of corn/filler. But at least it is some kibble to crunch on too. She doesn't like to chew on anything like bully sticks or any of the dental sticks out there. Like I said, she is very picky.
I did talk to the vet about her diet because she has a very mild stage of luxating patella and the vet said she is at the perfect weight with her current diet. She is 6.4 lbs and he doesn't want her to get that much heavier and put that extra weight on her joints.
But I have to think she must have a tummy ache with the gas she has. Sometimes when she is sitting with me and has her gassies, she turns around and looks at me like "Mommy what did YOU do?"
Thanks for any advice you can give us!