6 Month Cane Corso Tummy issues help!

[kguitarchic18]

So we have had our cane corso baby girl, Zola, since she was nine weeks old. I read up a ton on how they need to be on good foods with the right amount of calcium, etc (as much as I would love to do the raw I don't have time or cost right now which is why I wanted to choose a good kibble brand)

So Zola has been on the Fromm Gold Large Breed Puppy and she has been great. Obviously since its a really healthy food she usually was going poop about 4-5 times per day, and it would be somewhat soft at night but no issues. She had one major issue with watery diarrhea and we did the chicken and rice and transitioned her back to kibble within 2-3 days and she was fine.

Last week she started getting very soft stools, chocolate pudding like. While away, she was only in her crate for 2 hours and she broke out and went in our bathroom she had to go so bad. WHICH HAS NEVER HAPPENED so I felt awful. That night we left to go to the store and she went in her crate and I felt even worse knowing how bad her stomach must have hurt. Nothing else wrong though, completely happy, energetic, playful, hungry etc. We put her back to the chicken and rice and after a few days transitioned with adding the kibble back in, and BAM pudding poop. Tried just chicken and rice again only and it firmed back up. Added back in some kibble with wet food and pumpkin along with the chicken and rice, and she had a small piece of firmer poop and we got excited. ( i know excited about poop) and then later in the evening she had a huge pile of softer poop. Then she woke up 2 times in the middle of the night with super soft pudding poop again.

We have also not given her any new treats etc, and everything has been cut out so I know that its not a new treat making her tummy upset. We also always go with her in the backyard so I know she is not eating something she shouldn't. I just feel so bad and helpless.

We are having the poop tested, but while waiting for the results I just keeping thinking she is just sensitive to something but what?! I wanted to see if anyone else had a similar experience? Is it possible to be feeding her too much causing the diarrhea? She was started to look a little skinny from not eating her 5 3/4 cups of kibble a day, so we tried to give her about 2 cups in the morning of the rice/chik/kibble/wet food/pump mixture, 2 cups afternoon, and almost 2 cups at night. Wondering if maybe she just needs to go to adult food? She has never woken up in the middle of the night to poop until now.

 

[angelbears]

Pooping 4 to 5 times a day seems like a lot to me. I would go back to chicken and rice for at least 5 days and see how she does. If it firms up while on the chicken and rice and it goes back to pudding on Fromms I would look at changing dog food and going grain free. What is the hold up on her stool check? Giardia is a possibility and will need meds to get rid of.

 

[kguitarchic18]

yeah as she has gotten a little order it was aroun 3-4 times per day. On the chicken and rice its only 1-2 times though so I figured that food was just really healthy and going through her. Which is why I wondered with her a little older if maybe its just too much for her to handle now, but I only read and heard great things about Fromm.

 

[angelbears]

Fromm's is what my breeder recommended and it has a good reputation but my dog didn't do well on it. Actually the opposite is true about poop. The more poop the less the food is being used as energy and nutrients for your dog. So the less poop the better.

 

[Hector]

More poop = body is absorbing less of the nutrients. Less poop = body absorbing the nutrients. More poop also means the food is not that healthy. It actually means the food is full of fillers and "stuff" that the dog doesn't use and throws out. I would recommend switching to maybe earthborn holistics. I used to feed Fromm to one of my dogs (a shepherd). He did well on the first bag and then I switched him to some other brand and then switched back to fromm large breed. He was miserable on it. He became really itchy and pooped big semi-soft piles 3x a day. I finally switched him to earthborn holistics (I feed prairie) after reading good reviews on here. His poop became firmer and the pile was less in volume. His itchies were gone. I also use this food on my mastiff as treats. Usually he will get upset tummy from these things, but he does fine on them. My two dogs that eat raw poop significantly less and the piles are very small and easy to clean up.

 

[Smokeycat]

In addition to what others have said, sometimes companies can change formulas and that can mean a food that they were doing great on all of a sudden can cause problems.
Given what you said about her stool being soft I would recommend a chicken free kibble (I don't know Fromm but most puppy foods are chicken based). In my experience cooked chicken is different than the chicken processed into kibble.

 

[DennasMom]

...and... yes, feeding too much can lead to pudding poop, too... but it still should be controllable. Pooping in the crate makes me glad you got a vet check.

 

[thelady_v2010]

yeah as she has gotten a little order it was aroun 3-4 times per day. On the chicken and rice its only 1-2 times though so I figured that food was just really healthy and going through her. Which is why I wondered with her a little older if maybe its just too much for her to handle now, but I only read and heard great things about Fromm.

It is actually the opposite!

I think it is a good food, it just might not be right for your pup and like others said, you may be overfeeding.

 

[kguitarchic18]

thanks everyone, vet said they will have results tomorrow. She has had more firm poop in the am, and then pudding in the evening, and sometimes more umm less pudding like towards late night. I was looking into the kirkland (costco) grain free as I heard good things, but it seems lately people don't like it and think the formula changed.

I was looking into TOTW but saw some people had issues with it being a diamond brand, and concerns with the fish meal coming from tainted water. So, maybe I will look into the Earthborn Hollistic, any other brands? Also I am up for cooking and mixing in some things with the kibble if that helps.