Can anyone tell me of a good diet which helps improve sloppy poo in my german shpherd. He is six months old and has Burns dry food at present.

hi and welcome to the forumwell i swear there was another thread on here recently about a german shepard that had runny poos and the poster wrote what she had eventually found that settled it but i cant find it for the life of me, but then i have just got up so that may be why, lol. i feed my two boys ( husky x malamutes), on the raw/ barf diet and they have good solid poos that crumble unless they have been fed too much beef, chicken is good for firming their poos. i have no experience of kibble but there are lots of people on here who have and im sure they will advise you, but if you fancy the raw, there is also lots of info on it here or on the net and books you can get.

Hi my sheps had same problem i now feed them james wellbeloved and just a little tinned to get them to eat it, and i dont have a problem , before i had them on beta and they were loose all the time.

When I fed mine just on the Burns dry he had sloppy poos so I now add Naturediet so its half and half so now better. If you get on to the Naturediet site and ask for some samples they will send some for you to try.

The problem with dry food as well as wet , is that it is full of filling ingredients that a dogs system just canot digest , ie grain, beet pilp , wheat etc , these are allien to their digestive track and so can often be the cause of runny poo .
Sometimes it can just be the percentage of these ingredients that can be the cause , and a dry food with less grain etc can be better for sensetive tums .
Ultimately a dogs system is best on what its natural diet would be ..... raw meat , this doesnt have to be as daunting as at first may seem , I reasearched raw feeding about 8 months ago and swaped my 2 labs over to raw with no trouble at all , the only outlay cost wise was a chest freezer , second hand , to put the meat in , i get 8 weeks worth of food at a time delivered from a place called Landywoods and it costs me £40 to feed raw for 2 adult labs , research is needed into how to feed and this info can found on here by searching through past posts or online .

As far as dry kibble goes i would maybe sudgest Pero again can be ordered online direct from them or some of thier foods can be found at pets at home , but the one i would recommend is Pero labrador ( not designed just for labs ) but the larger dog with sensetive tums it is based on salmo and brown rice ( brown rice being not such a bad filler ) . it also has added glucosamine , something that any large dog owner should think of as it helps in the long term protection of the joints .

Another good one as said before is James well belloved ,or Origin food which is closest to feeding raw but in a kibble 70% meat 30% fruit and veg .

Ultimatey any change of food needs to done slowly over a period of about a week , slowly replacing the old food for the new in gradual amounts , a change of food alone can cause tummy upset if done to quickly . Hope this helps .

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Beet pulp is good source of fiber though!

dogs dont need great proportions of fibre , it can be got from fruit and veg , if you think about it where would a dog have got fibre from if they were wild ??? it would have come from eating the stomach content of a killed animal that may have been a herbivore .

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some people who feed prey model ( meat and bone only )would never even give fruit or veg .

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Thanks for your advice everyone. Going to try the naturediet mixed in to see if it helps.