[Susan]

Hi D S, can you reduce the kibble & feed more table scraps? what you eat for dinner minus any ingredients dogs can’t eat, feed a cooked meal for 1 of his meals instead of kibble & don’t feed any rice if cooking a meal add some boiled sweet potatoes NO GRAINS.
Kibble sits in the stomach & depending on ingredients & how high the fiber & carbs are, the food ferments in their stomach causing a rotten fermenting smell to come up into mouth……I bet his breath is worse about 1 hour after eating his kibble…
As we get older we don’t make as much hydrochloric acid in the stomach anymore, your vet should know this, so the food sits in stomach longer…feed foods that are easier to digest like cooked meals… start feeding 4 smaller meals a day instead of just 2 big meals, this way it will be easier to digest the small meal, a big meal is harder to digest…..I feed at 7am 12pm 5pm & 8pm & don’t feed any kibbles with fermentable grains like rice, oats, barley, lentils, chick peas….
My boy breath start to smell bad after he eats a high carb, high fiber kibbles, dogs do not need much fiber in their diet, their intestinal tract is short, its not like a humans digestive tract…
I’ve been feeding “Taste Of The Wild” Sierra Mountain Roasted Lamb & Patch doesn’t have his bad fermenting breath no more, it’s grain free it just has Lamb, sweet potatoes, peas, potato, or look for a grain free kibble with sweet potatoes, potatoes, peas, when I was feeding “Canidae” Life Stages Platinum with grains (Brown rice, Barley & oats) the bad breath came back, I feed the 5pm meal dinner, a cooked meal, home made pork rissoles with cut up broccoli, parsley & kale & a whisked egg mixed in the pork mince made into a rissole then I add the boil sweet potatoes.. You can freeze the rissoles & sweet potato & take out as needed also start giving either Kefir or Yakult probiotic drink.. in between meals as a treat this will help get rid of any bad stomach bacteria… Please post after 1 month & see if there’s a change I’d say there will be..