My 5 month old dog poops at least 5-6 times a day!!?

Question

She is a 5 lb chihuahua and only eats Iams dog food - never any treats. Her stools are quite solid as well. I feed her twice a day. Is going 5 times a day normal?

Answer 1

No, not really.

Typically, when a dog deficates this often, it is due to the food. Foods with more "fillers" will produce more stool. The fillers are items added to the food to bulk it up and have no use to the dog, therefore turning into waste.

I would feed a better diet. I use Purina ProPlan Natural Selects for all of my dogs and puppies. This food has no additives. My dogs only poop once, maybe twice per day.

Good luck!

Answer 2

what is wrong with some of you. Common rule, everytime a dog eats or drinks he will have to poo and pee 30 min. later.
It's good he is going to the bathroom. HE will get bloated and sick if he doesnt exactly how humans do. Humans by law of nature should also use the bathroom 30min after eating, the time it takes for digestion. This means the body is working correctly and you are eating the right foods, however today humans eat very unhealthy and do not go to the restroom on a regular basis. It is perfectly normal. You should be worried about the way it looks and not how often it is.
Just thank god he is healthy.

Answer 3

Its very likely the food you are feeding her. Iams is full of fillers that your dog can't use, so they literally go in one end and come out the other.

Try switching her to a high quality food, you'll find she goes less often.


Nothing you find at a grocery store is going to be a good food. High quality foods can be found at large pet store chains, or online. A couple of foods I like are Nutro Natural, Innova, Innova Evo and Cannidae.

There are other high quality dog foods. Here's how to spot them:

A high quality food will have little or no fillers such as corn, wheat or soy. These aren't very digestable for dogs, and are common food related allergens. Since you were seeing corn meal in the first few ingredients, those are not high quality foods. Foods list ingredients by content, with the ingredient it contains most of at the top.

A high quality food will not contain BHT, BHA or Ethoxyquin, these are all chemical preservatives that have been linked to cancer.

A high quality food will not contain by-products of any kind. Meat meals are ok as long as the source of the meat is listed, such as Chicken Meal.

A high quality diet should have meat as at least the first ingredient., and be made from human grade ingredients. Foods that don't use human grade ingredients often get their ingredients from less than desirable sources, such as meat from animals that were diseased, or euthanized.

There is another diet option other than dog food. Some people choose to feed a raw diet. This involves feeding the dog raw meaty bones and organ meat. However it is not as simple as throwing a couple chicken bones in a bowl everyday. If you wish to feed this type of diet, do lots and lots of research first. Switching to this diet without knowing what your doing can lead to nutritional problems for your dog. I'll give you some links as a starting point in research if you are interested in this type of diet.

http://www.willowglen.com/barf.htm.........

http://www.bestfrisbeedogs.com/diets.htm...

http://www.rawlearning.com/rawfaq.html.....

http://www.rawfed.com/myths/index.html.....

http://www.rawdogranch.com

What's Really In Pet Food
http://www.api4animals.org/facts?p=359&m...

Answer 4

I had the same problem. It's the food you feed your pet. I switched to Pro Plan and now my dog only poops 2 times a day and that is after each feeding.

Answer 5

Yes it is normal I mean don't you poop or pee 5 times a day.
Same thing happened to my dog.

Answer 6

So then, We taught my 2yo Yellow Lab Astro to stop digging in just 7 days. No problem at all. I just had to use the Dog discipline magic system - suggest u search google.