any suggestions to stop my dog flatuating so much, ?

Question

He is a very active ,3 year old, Cairn Terrier, he seems to pick the worse time to give us a treat, dinner , company ,,,etc ,etc..

Answer 1

The raw food answer is a good one. Raw food diets tend to be 3x as expensive though.

Recently, I have been reading that cooked dog food looses many of the enzymes and good bacteria that aid in a dogs digestion. This makes the dog give up more of its own enzymes for digestion and "tooting" as my 4 1/2 year old daughter would say, is a byproduct.

For many years I have been feeding a high quality dry food, but had been adding a tablespoon or 2 of plain yougurt to the food and that seems to help with with the gas. Plus the dogs love it. I never really understood why it worked, but the fact that yougurt is live cultures, or good bacteria, it all seems to make sense. Give it a try.

Best of luck. Great breed by the way.

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Answer 2

Dogs that are fed a raw meat and bone diet usually don't have as much gas as dogs on a processed commercial food- they are better able to digest the raw meat than the grains and additives. However, everyone gets gas and dogs really don't know when they are being inappropriate.

Answer 3

Change his food but do it slowly over a week or you'll have a worse problem. Find a food with no corn, no wheat. Terriers do very well on lamb & rice formulas but you need to get a sample to see if he likes it first.

Answer 4

I agree with the last two answers, but do it slowly or you might find the sudden change gives your Cairn another problem! Belly ache.

Answer 5

Mine had the rankest gas until I switched dog food from chicken to lamb.the smellys are gone now.

Answer 6

try a different diet or try putting the food at a higher level so he doesn't have to bend down to eat this way he doesn't ingest so much air

Answer 7

An old wine cork !! LOL,

either that or stop feeding him Pal

Answer 8

Change its diet. dry dog food is better for them.