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View Poll Results: What food for Boo (and other dogs who can eat neither poultry not WK...) UNICHOICE
California Natural Herring and Sweet potato 0 0%
Canidae Lamb and Rice 1 8.33%
DVP Sweet potato and fish 2 16.67%
Evo Red Meat 2 16.67%
Evo +California Natural Herring 0 0%
Evo +Canidae Lamb 5 41.67%
Evo +DVP sweet potato+fish 0 0%
All of the above. 1 8.33%
Feed him canned instead. 0 0%
My choice is not here or I know something better and I've posted it below. 1 8.33%
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Old September 28th, 2006, 09:28 PM
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Old September 28th, 2006, 09:30 PM
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seriously. is there less poop now with the EVO?...
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Old September 28th, 2006, 09:36 PM
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less poop per load, more loads.
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Old September 28th, 2006, 09:43 PM
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that's weird... how many times per day do they go?...
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Old September 28th, 2006, 09:52 PM
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probably 4 or 5 each.
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Old September 28th, 2006, 10:31 PM
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maybe they're still adjusting to the food switch... that's not really normal. or maybe they just like to poop!
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Old September 28th, 2006, 10:36 PM
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Well, they're hard stools. Very, very, very hard... Well see tomorrow after adding a bit of DVP.
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How am I going to know if they have internal bleeding if the stool is already black?

Is it black as soon as it comes out? And is it black on the inside too?
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Old September 28th, 2006, 11:04 PM
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umm.. I haven't checked. Do I have to check? Yes, as soon as it comes out, and it stays blackish.

It's not black-black, but a very, very, very dark browny black.
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Old September 28th, 2006, 11:04 PM
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Did you ever email Innova about the feeding amounts?
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Old September 28th, 2006, 11:05 PM
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No, I didn't. I completely forgot till today.
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Old September 28th, 2006, 11:17 PM
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umm.. I haven't checked. Do I have to check? Yes, as soon as it comes out, and it stays blackish.

It's not black-black, but a very, very, very dark browny black.
I'm sure it's okay. My dogs have been on the regular Innova (not EVO) and their poops are darker than they used to be. Must be the food.

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No, I didn't. I completely forgot till today.

So, are you going to?
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Old September 28th, 2006, 11:37 PM
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Just did.
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btw, eating meat causes a dog's stools to be dark. adding grains, veggies, bones, makes the stool lighter-colored. when you raw-feed it's fun to see the rainbow of poop colors... a very boney-meal will cause pale poops, sometimes almost chalk-like, and green tripe can cause green poop, a meal of just meat makes dark poop, specially red meats, almost black.
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btw, eating meat causes a dog's stools to be dark. adding grains, veggies, bones, makes the stool lighter-colored. when you raw-feed it's fun to see the rainbow of poop colors... a very boney-meal will cause pale poops, sometimes almost chalk-like, and green tripe can cause green poop, a meal of just meat makes dark poop, specially red meats, almost black.
I was reading a book at lunch "Raw Dog Food: Making It Work For You And Your Dog" and they mentioned that by mixing certain veggies you can get red & gren poo for the Christmas season lol.
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Old September 29th, 2006, 11:14 AM
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OMG that's hilarious!!!
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lol Gives a whole new meaning to "Christmas presents"...
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Prin, are the poops still black? My boys' have turned to a more normal colour now.
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Old September 30th, 2006, 01:49 PM
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hmm.. Not black, but smeeeeeeelllllyyyyyy. The DVP got rid of the black, but is really creating a major stink. I think I'm gonna cut back a bit.
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Old September 30th, 2006, 02:15 PM
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Prin, I noticed with the switch to Canidae, things are smellier right now. Hopefully, it's just an adjustment thing and the smell decreases as they get used to the new food.

( There really is nothing sacred on this site when it comes to our pet's wellbeing, is there? )
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Old September 30th, 2006, 02:16 PM
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What did you switch from? I just didn't expect the so-called "detox" phase from holistic to holistic..
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From the Performatrin Ultra-still switching, in fact. They'd probably be OK on a straight switchover by now, but I still have some Performatrin to use up.

The poop is still firm and such (again, nothing is sacred!) just very smelly.
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Maybe the 'new' WK was doing something more uncool than you knew to your crew.. And they are detoxing cause they were seriously doing bad on it?

I was over feeding Cider I think.. She was pooping different stuff.. hard and small, big and soft.. etc.. Cut back a tad, and they are fairly happy poops no bad bad smell.. Only FOUL smell was the 'new' WK man I nearly puked picking up that poop...
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Food for Boo

I did an almost cold turkey switch from WK to DVP venison and have not had any smelly anything. I notced the poop today was nice, small and very firm so that is a good sign that they are okay with the switch.
Tomorrow I will be mixing the venison with the fish formula. Hopefully that will go as well.
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Old September 30th, 2006, 06:16 PM
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Let me know if they still do ok on the fish because that's the one I'm giving that is causing the smelliness...

Mafia, I don't think so- they only had the new WK for a few days (maybe a week?) before they got the Evo RM. Maybe...
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btw, eating meat causes a dog's stools to be dark. adding grains, veggies, bones, makes the stool lighter-colored. when you raw-feed it's fun to see the rainbow of poop colors... a very boney-meal will cause pale poops, sometimes almost chalk-like, and green tripe can cause green poop, a meal of just meat makes dark poop, specially red meats, almost black.
Trust me when I say you want to be in an entirely different solar system after they've tried beets.
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Trust me when I say you want to be in an entirely different solar system after they've tried beets.
how does a dog get into beets? so... a little stinky? or?
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Old October 1st, 2006, 06:32 PM
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K, I couldn't remember where we were talking about the price of Evo RM, so I thought I'd post it here... I got the 28.6lb bag for $74.99 today at woofers.. But they have a loyalty card thingy and mine was full so I got 5% off that and 10% off the cookies I bought.
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