My one year old Boxer is very flatulent. Is there a product like "Beano" for dogs? Any solution would be great

Question

We feed her Purina One, Lamb and rice. Very,very few table scraps.

Answer 1

Beano for pets is called CURTAIL and it is the SAME as Beano.
http://www.akpharma.com/curtail/curtail_facts.html

But as others have said, a diet change may be all you need.

Answer 2

Curtail is Beano for dogs.

If you do not want to be medicating your dog with the stuff for a long time, you can look into getting excess fiber out of his diet and adding in some plain yogurt to see if that helps.

http://www.akpharma.com/curtail/curtail_stores.html

Answer 3

It's not just your Boxer. Boxer's are notorious for their flatulent symphonies. We use typical OTC anti-gas liver pills from Petsmart and they seem to help. That aside, make sure your Boxer is on a good diet. Talk to your veterinarian to see what he/she recommends. Good luck!

Edit: When someone scolds you for buying beano-like products for your dogs because they believe every aspect of a dog's diet must be carefully monitored to increase the chances of squeezing extra minutes into their lifespan, ask them how much of that care is put into their children's diet and even their own. You'd be surprised how many of these arm-chair veterinarians are smokers, drinkers and fast food veterans ;)

Answer 4

Try switching to a higher quality food. It wont smell like roses but it will cut down. Boxers are known for their gas. You can also try food with charcoal.

Answer 5

One of the first things I would think of is the food. What are you feeding him?

ADD: Assuming there's no medical problem, I would try switching him to another food, one with less grain products.

Here's the ingredient list in Purina One Lamb and Rice

Lamb (natural source of glucosamine), brewers rice, oat meal, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal (natural source of glucosamine), whole grain corn, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), non-fat yogurt, dicalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate, animal digest, potassium chloride, malted barley flour, salt, choline chloride, brewers dried yeast, zinc sulfate, Vitamin E supplement, ferrous sulfate, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, manganese sulfate, niacin, Vitamin A supplement, calcium pantothenate, thiamine mononitrate, copper sulfate, riboflavin supplement, Vitamin B-12 supplement, pyridoxine hydrochloride, garlic oil, folic acid, Vitamin D-3 supplement, calcium iodate, biotin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of Vitamin K activity), sodium selenite.

Note the corn products in there, those could be part of the problem. Also note the unspecified poultry meal and animal fat.

Here's the ingredients from Canidae's Lamb and Rice formula:

Lamb Meal, Brown Rice, Canola Oil (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Flax Seed, Sun cured Alfalfa Meal, Sunflower Oil, Lamb, Lecithin, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Linoleic Acid, Rosemary Extract, Sage Extract, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract, Inulin (from Chicory Root), Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Solubles, L-Lysine, Taurine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Mixed Tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (source of Vitamin B2), Beta Carotene, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, D-Biotin, Organic Selenium, Dried Papaya, Dried Pineapple, Vitamin B12 Supplement.

The only grain here is brown rice, and this one contains a lot of probiotics to help maintain the proper gut bacteria.

You might try something like this, if you want to stick with a lamb and rice formula. If you do, I would transition him to it gradually, over a period of 5 days - 1 week.

Also, you might try a different formulation, such as a chicken or fish based food. The site below has ingredient lists for most of the foods you're likely to find in a pet supply store, especially the smaller independent ones.

Good luck with your gas problem.

PS. Sometimes it takes going through several before you find the one that works best for your dog. Each one is a little different.

Answer 6

Go to petco or petsmart - I think they have something for it. I know our dog gets gassy when she chews on rawhides so watch what he's eating. I can always tell when she gets a rawhide!

Answer 7

Perhaps you should get him on a higher quality food. Fix the problem, don't treat the symptoms.

ADD: I am sorry, but I would never pump that OTC crap into my dogs systems. Their health and well being is much more important to me. Have you seen the ingredients in that crap? I recommend you steer clear!

Answer 8

feed high quality food and make sure the dog isn't gulping it down so fast

Answer 9

You can also elevate your dogs dish, this can help with air ingestion.