Hi!

Freddy tends to inhale his food - he's on the Wagg original (£8.99 for 17kg from Tesco!! No fancy food for my boy I'm afraid!!! ) - but I can't say I've noticed any probs with his poo - it tends to be fairly normally formed (not that I inspect it a lot!).  He does stink to high heaven with his breath - although, we've just had him at the vets for something else and he has the early signs of gum disease, which seems to be causes the breath smell.  I think it's because they don't chew the biscuits so the teeth aren't getting clean.  He doesn't have wind either (sorry, I'm not being very helpful am I?!).

I, personally, wouldn't soak his food.  I think that's the problem with a lot of greys teeth- they are fed soaked food in the kennels, so their teeth never get the chance to crunch anything and therefore give the teeth a bit of a clean.  Have you tried a chew of some sort for him to chomp on - if you're not in favour of bones, how about a rawhide one?

Hope this maybe helps a wee bit!

Sharon

Hiya,

Ruby inhales her food and doesn't smell, while Spoons chews like a good boy and stinks! They're both on Greyhound mix from Gibb's of Galston(£9.87), although there wasn't much difference when they were on Autarky (although Spoon's poo's are a bit better).

I find that charcoal bonio's reduce the smell when I remember to give him one with his dinner, although they are very messy if taken out of the boal to eat.

Cheers

Janet

We feed the Bonio charcoal biscuits to ours two and it seems to firm up their pooh a little as well (bet you wanted to know that!!)  They only normally get two or three a week, but cause we were out with Barney (our soon to be new addition) they had a few in one day.  The next day, Freddy's pooh was black and even more solid than normal.  He was also struggling a bit, so just a warning of not to give too many of them in one day.

Another really good treat that dogs have to chew are the square biscuits that Pets at Home sell loose as well.  They are about 6 inches square and might be made by Friskies.  Our two love them and they don't disappear as quickly as some smaller biscuit treats!  They are fairly cheap as well.  It takes Freddy a couple of minutes to eat one - mainly cause he can't swallow it whole.

Chas

You could try to change their food gradually and see if it makes a difference.  Arden Grange is getting loads of good reports, as well as foods like Burns and the like.

Incidently, it's good practice to soak dry food for a while before feeding to reduce the chances of Gastric Torsion (Bloat) in deep chested dogs like greyhounds and the like.

Our Tyler has good and bad poos all within one walk!!  At the start of the walk its good solid poos then as she continues for more stops, it just becomes a sloppy mess!   I think it may be just her habit (to have a good clean out!)

Recently an ex grey trainer was telling me that they have two stomachs!!  And he used bicarbonate of soda to flush them out!!!

Adding a dollop of natural live yoghurt does help firm up runny poo's.  Specially good if they have been on antibiotics for anything, but even if they haven't it helps - and - they LOVE it!

Lita - Sim does the same as Tyler - starts the walk firm and ends it sloppy!  Mmm mmm!  Also if they are having a longer walk than usual that can happen - I presume that's something similar to 'runners tum'!  (Anyone who has been running will know what I mean)!