Doggy wind.

[JT1986]

My dog is a year and a half now and ever since we've had him he has very bad wind. the smell is quite bad, no matter what we feed him. If anyone has any tips on how to make this better it would be a massive help (and i would save money on air freshener!)

[emmabeth]

Food creates wind.

Digestive system not working properly also creates wind.

What foods have you tried, unfortunately a great deal of complete foods (dry or tinned) will give most dogs bad wind and often an over all doggy smell.

To see if it IS food, the thing you need to do is feed a radically different 'novel' diet for a few weeks and see how that changes things. This is hard to do because dog food has so many ingredients in it these days.

I feed my dogs a raw diet and on the whole they are not windy or smelly. It doesnt suit all dogs, but does suit the vast majority.

If they eat turkey wings though.... BOY do they fart!

If its not food, then its a digestion problem, and you need to see a vet for that.

Em

[Mattie]

After finding that Joe was alergic to so many foods I had to change him to a more suitble feed so put all my dogs on it. The change in the amount of wind they generated was amazing, from having a very smelly house, they very rarely do pass wind now.

[RoddyB]

I always recall my gran giving her dogs chopped fresh parsley with their dinner (an attractive garnish?!) as she said it was great for doggy digestion and stopped their windypops.
Might be an old wives tale... but worth a shot?

[JT1986]

My dog Ty is a very fussy eater and I do mean VERY fussy! it's taken us nearly a year to find a food that he would eat and not give him the runs (which i'm guessing is an allergy) if we feed him chicken, chicken and rice, turkey, fish he won't eat it no matter how long we leave it down for. he won't eat the specialist food like james wellbeloved etc but he will eat any cat food, which is one of the many reasons my cat hates him! we will try the fresh parsley and see how that goes.

[Mattie]

Dogs shouldn't be fed cat food because it is too high in protein for them. Cats need much higher protein that dog, dogs can live without meat, cats can't.

It is the high protein in cat food which makes cat poo so atractive to dogs

[JT1986]

we don't feed him cat food he just grabs a mouthful or two when ever he walks past her bowl, he very cheeky like that!

[Mattie]

we don't feed him cat food he just grabs a mouthful or two when ever he walks past her bowl, he very cheeky like that!

I didn't think that you did feed him cat food, but I do know that some people do, so it doesn't do any harm to say so every now and again.

Even an odd mouthful can affect some dogs though, so if you can, feed your cat were your dog can't get the food.

[JT1986]

The Parsley works!!!! thank you!!!

[katowaggytail]

I've been watching this post with interest and think I'll give the parsley a go - I've got a pot growing out back!

I've tried the raw diet but it's not happening for him at the mo, so I'm going to give it a rest for a while and try again later on.

Fi

[lucky_puppy]

Yes, I'm glad to hear it works too. I'd read that parsley aided digestion and cut down on wind especially in egg dishes, so I tend to put it in anything I make with eggs for the dogs. Glad to hear that it really does work at least in some cases. I'd been going on blind faith, heh.

[DawnStorm]

I always recall my gran giving her dogs chopped fresh parsley with their dinner (an attractive garnish?!) as she said it was great for doggy digestion and stopped their windypops.
Might be an old wives tale... but worth a shot?

Man, I wish I knew that years ago! My second Dobe was the high king of the SBD and they were always in my direction, much to my husband's delight!
Thankfully, my current Dobe doesn't have that problem!