I feed them twice a day. Contrary to the recommendation of vitalanimal, my 50 lb. dog could tolerate one feeding per day, but my 25 lb. dog who is extremely food obsessed would not. And due to her food obsession I have to watch her weight very carefully as she tends to gain. She is so hungry all the time that she will scavenge the floors for anything edible often eating bits of paper or anything else. I have even caught her eating her own feces. I have trouble keeping her satiated between meals although a daily bully stick does help somewhat. I suspect I need to put her on a low calorie diet of her own. But the larger dog is the one with the more serious gastric issues So my 2 digestive issues are 1) large dog tends to poop 5 times a day with occassional soft and/or runny stools, and 2) small dog tends to poop 5 times a day, firm to hard stools, and frequent foul gas.
I am now looking into the limited ingredient foods but so far it looks like their ingredient lists are still very long. What I’m mainly looking for is foods with higher digestibility, good enzymes, fewer filler ingredients and by-products, lower in carbs, higher protein content, probiotics, natural preservatives, a digestibility figure of 80% or better. And a good fat-to-protein ratio…which, by the way, I don’t know what that is. What exactly is a good one, and a bad one? DFA tells us the fat-to-protein ratio but doesn’t tell us whether it is good or not.
