Hi Atlas,
Yes Patch was the same when I first rescued him & he was put on a vet diet for his IBD his first 2 poo’s were nice & firm then his 3 & 4th poos would get softer & softer, vet said some dogs digest & poo food out 10-12 hours after eating, so I started to add 1 spoon boiled orange pumkin with his 7am breakfast meal so I could tell what poo was what meal & yes he was pooing out his 7am breakfast meal at 5pm, 10 hours later, then over 3 year period of rotating & trying different kibbles & introducing different foods, elimination diets etc I strengthen his gut & it became more healthy…..
“Canidae” & “TOTW” Sierra Mountain Roasted Lamb kibbles made his poos the firmest & he always poos at the same time on our walks, but if he eats something or I start introducing a new kibble that doesn’t agree with him then 10-12 hours later he’s up 11pm or 1am 2am doing a very sloppy poo or diarrhea.. That’s when I worked out he can NOT eat Lentils or Chickpeas especially when they are 2nd, 3rd 4th ingredient he was up 11pm stressing out wanting to go out but didnt poo then he’d come back inside go back to bed, then 1 hour later woke me up again stressing out really bad the Lentils & Chickpeas must cause very bad wind pain then bad diarrhea…. I tried Artemis Osopure new Turkey & Garbanzo beans formula the fiber was 5.5% & had Garbanzo beans & Lentils never again all I introduce under 1/4 of a cup & the 2nd night he was up with bad pain & diarrhea, the online pet store gave me a refund & said give the food to someone you know so I gave it to my vet to try on her dog…
I would start introducing Kirklands Natures Domain Turkey & Sweet Potato & he might stop doing 5 poo’s a day, maybe the Natural Balance has too much fiber?? more fiber, more poo’s, can you get the orange sweet potatoes? you could boil 1/2 Sweet potato & 1/2 white potato & cause the Sweet potato is orange you might see this in his poo, his poo will be more orange in colour then the other poo’s then you can work out how long he’s taking to digest & past that meal, even if you buy a bag of frozen or tin corn kernals & add about 1 spoon of corn kernals to only his 1st morning meal & then you’ll see the undigested corn in his poo & you’ll know oh there’s breakfast & add how many hours its taking him to digest a meal…the corn might firm his poo’s or like Patch corn makes his poos very soft, some of the wet canned vet diets he has eaten had corn in them & I’d see the corn & sloppy poo’s.
Another reason Patch didn’t gain weight & stayed very lean was walks, we were doing 4 big walks a day, so he’d poo, now I’ve worked out what food makes him poo more or less we just do 10-15min walks only 2 walks a day or some days 3 walks 3 poo’s a day, he does his 7.30 & 5pm walk & poo’s everyday & if I feed him TOTW for all his 4 meals he does 3 firm poos a day but when I only feed 2 of his larger meals TOTW & feed the other smaller meals Hills Sensitive Skin kibble or cooked meal or wet tin foods Patch just does 2 poos a day, so different kibbles cooked etc does make them poo less or more….
