Delicate digestion in dogs - what to do?

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I've got two whippets (one old, one young) and both have extremely delicate digestions. They have messed on the floor during the night for the second time this week because they don't bark to be let out.

They don't seem to be ill and my vet has checked them both recently and not found any problems. I think that last night's problem was caused by someone feeding them a treat. I didn't see them get it, but they were both getting very excited when I took them for a walk and a lady was making a fuss of them.

I don't give them any treats other than an occasional Bonio biscuit, which they love and are fine with. I am changing their food over gradually next week to the James Wellbeloved brand, because I've heard that it is a good natural food.

Has anyone got any more advice that they can give me please?
 
I wouldn't treat at all, or if you do, use human food like cheese or chicken.
Something as little as eating fox or cat poo can set my boy off
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I would do a bit more investigation about what food might suit them (there are multiple threads on the subject this week
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Good luck, some dogs are just sensitive little buggers.
 
Thanks CC. They do eat anything they find on walks and I am wondering about muzzling them to stop them doing it. They are always exercised off lead so I haven't got much control over what nasty bits and pieces they decide to ingest
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I am hoping that the new diet, which I going to start introducing this weekend, will help and their treats will have to stop too, until I see how things are progressing.

My OH is building an outside kennel and run this weekend because he is fed up with the mess. I am not so sure about them spending their nights outside but he is buying heat lamps and says that he thinks they might like their new night-time house. I hope they do because I've never kept a dog outside the house before
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Have the same problem in my rather elderly Jack Russell. Vet advised us to feed him on Chappie as it has nothing in it that can upset him. That worked but he got so bored of eating the same thing.

For a bit of variety, or as this week when he's been particularly ill again (hoovering up food spilt out of bins as the binmen haven't been around because of the snow) we feed him rice and tuna or rice and chicken.
 
zandp - how strange! I've just had a lesson and was chatting to my instructor about my dogs and she said exactly the same thing about feeding Chappie! I think I will give it a go if I can find a shop that sells it. I'd never have dreamed of feeding it so I've never registered if the pet shop stocks it.

I usually feed rice and chicken if one of them is going through a really bad patch and they seem to like that. I have to give them both the same thing at every meal to avoid jealousy
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Sainsbury's do the canned food and my local Mole Valley farmers shop does the dry stuff. Flavours are original and chicken and rice. Patch likes it, loved it until the first time we fed him rice and tuna and then he went all posh on us !

Hope it works for you.
 
No please don't feed them chappie it is such a rubbish food.

It has little to nothing good in it.

Feed some plain chicken and rice and then slowly introduce the JWB.
 
I have five dogs (springer spangles x 3, Golden Retriever and Large Munsterlander) and four out of the five eat mainly raw plus Chudley Working Mix......however, the fifth, a two year old Springer, can only tolerate Chappie tinned food, rice, mashed potato and hard boiled eggs, so it's thumbs up for good ol' Chappie from me! (She has a "funny tummy" with Chappie biscuits, by the way - she can only tolerate the tinned stuff!)
 
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