[Susan]

Hi, that’s happened with my boy, I finally found a food & his itch & hive like lumps all went away but he was pooing about 5-6 poos a day, big & soft & had bad gas, he has IBD so when he starts his farting, I know something is wrong, so I stopped the food, his bowel was working over time, I was scared he may have blood streaks thru his poo again, so I looked for another food with similar ingredients minus the barley & less fiber…Dogs don’t need fiber in their diets, dogs have a smaller gastrointestinal track then humans…
I just had a look & the fiber % all the Grandma Lucy’s Pureformance foods & the fiber is high at 6-8% in all the Pureformance flavours… Have you tried the Valor fish or another flavour, the fiber is 5% in all flavours & has Quoina instead of the chickpeas …there’s also Artisan, in the Artisan Pork the fiber is 3.9% so less poos, but the Pork has potatoes & sweet potatoes, so no good if you have a yeasty dog problems….write done all the ingredients & maybe look for another brand there has to be another brand with similar ingredients minus the chickpeas & a lower fiber%..

There may be an ingredient in the Pureformance that is causing the poo problem, I’d say its the chick peas, chick peas are high in lectins, lectins can cause leaky gut, here’s a few links about Lectins & leaky gut…. also I wouldn’t be adding things that are high in fiber…
http://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/5-things-all-dog-owners-should-know-about-lectins/
http://trulyglutenfree.co.uk/2013/01/15/gluten-grains-and-lectins-why-remove-all-three/