Beano for your pooch???

I have read that people noticed that the beef kibbles, or beef combinations made the problem worse and when they switched to chicken (I'm sure there are exceptions) lamb, salmon or other blends the problem mostly went away. We did notice that the only times our previous dogs - miniature dachshunds had a problem was when they ate beef also. Anything else was fine.

I think breed has a lot to do with it. Our pug was extremely flatulent but my current dog, a half-Lhasa, has never had this problem even though he eats a lot of 'people food' in addition to his dry dog food.

I'd been using some kibble with my dogs along with raw until a few weeks ago, when I decided to eliminate the kibble. Along with that bag in the pantry, I eliminated Ziggy's gas problem completely.

Many, many dogs have gas issues and are never given anything except the dried up stuff their owners have been told is "the only healthy diet" for them. Go to your own doctor some time and tell her you eat the excact same dried crackers every day with nothing fresh ever, and see how healthy your doctor thinks that is.

"Dog food" is made from the same ingredients as "people food" except almost always lower quality versions and with more fillers. It's made with a lot of different ingredients because the big selling point is that it covers all the bases nutritionally. This allows dog food companies to convince people that the "healthy" thing to do is to feed the dog the same dried up crackers every day. It also sets up a strong possibility that one or more ingredients will be things that the dog can't digest or that the dog is sensitive or allergic to.

Probiotics may help if there's an imbalance or deficiency and if that solves the problem that's awesome. Beano may help for some dogs, not for others. But if it only mitigates the problem, that means the dog still isn't digesting the food well and that is not a healthy situation in the long term. The more we learn about immunity, the more we realize how important a healthy gut is. Constantly irritating the gut with food that can't be properly digested isn't healthy.

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I'm willing to bet if you only feed your dog, dog food, the problem will go away. Poof, like magic, no more phffsts..

I'm of the totally opposite opinion -- I'm willing to bet it's the dog food that's causing the problem. Even the "best" kibble is hard to digest. And that's per my very conservative, old school vet.

One of our dogs, if fed chicken, will make you sorry you were ever born. :E

Chicken/rice kibble doesn't do the same thing, fortunately.

Actually we only feed Millie dog food, she never gets table scraps or anything else. If she is this dangerous with just dog food no telling what people food might do to her... and us. :B

I'm willing to bet if you only feed your dog, dog food, the problem will go away. Poof, like magic, no more phffsts..

Oh, he who has obviously NEVER owned a bloodhound I beg to differ! Toby used to set off the carbon monoxide detector and he only ate dry food. One of our Springers should be sited for gas warfare-the other isn't bad-and they only get dry food.

I'm willing to bet if you only feed your dog, dog food, the problem will go away. Poof, like magic, no more phffsts..

I had similar experiences with a retired racer a few years ago. Plain yogurt work for us. He got a tablespoon or so with his meals. That didn't totally eliminate the problem but reduced it a lot.