my dog has gas wat should i do please help he can stink out the whole

[ChooksinChoppers]

X 4! No corn! Read the package.....anything "meal" should not be first ingredient

 

[pride&joy]

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[AinaWGSD]

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That's not entirely true. A specified meat meal (ie chicken meal or lamb meal) is actually what I want to see as a first ingredient (or as the second ingredient after a specified meat). A specified meat meal is simply the muscle of the specified animal that has been dehydrated and ground into meal. There's nothing gross or inappropriate in it, it's simply a way to remove the moisture. A dog food's ingredients are listed by weight/volume prior to processing and meat (ie chicken) can loose more than half of it's weight/volume in processing. Specified meat meals on the other hand have already had most of the moisture removed so the processing is not going to shrink their volume/weight. Now an unspecified "meat meal" or "meat and bone meal" is another story and are usually not quality ingredients and something I generally don't like to see anywhere on the ingredients list (along with byproducts, sugar, artificial coloring, and salt).

Back to the original question, it probably is the food. Either you made the diet change too quickly and his system is struggling to adapt to the change, or this food just causes him to be more gassy than the one he was previously on. You can try going back to the other food and making the change more gradual and see if that helps. If he is gulping his food, elevating the bowl or somehow slowing down his eating (the x-shaped bowl, feeding smaller meals more frequently, feeding in a kong, putting tennis balls or large (too large to swallow) rocks or a smaller bowl in the bowl so that he has to eat around them) may help by reducing the amount of air he is ingesting along with the food.

 

[Akane]

You want as many named meal ingredients as high up as possible. The more the better and a food with a named meal as the first ingredient would make me pretty confident it had a high meat content. However a wide variety of meal ingredients is more likely to contain something the dog is intollerant to. Chicken is one of the top causes of digestive tract problems. Switching to a very high meat food from a high grain food can also be tricky even though it is very healthy for the dog. It takes very different bacteria in the digestive tract. When I first tried to switch my animals to grain free it went horribly. Vomit and diarrhea everywhere. I put them on other foods by the same company for months and then spent months more converting them with canned pumpkin and ginger daily. For the past few years they've been on grain free food without issues and seem to be more durable to eating random things than they were before. They just have to get used to richer food and I learned my akita can't have lamb.

 

[mother o' chicks72]

you're not by chance feeding your dog "Ol' Roy" dog food are you? when my dog was eating that her farts were HORRIBLE!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Greek Yogurt. Feed grain free it's better for your dog. Taste of the Wild is a great food.

 

[thekid]

are you using mighty dog my moms dog had the same problem when she used mighty dog

 

[buzzard chick]

good quality food and you can give your dog Beano (really)

Worked for my PitX.