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BaxterJoy
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I feel like I've read a lot on here about types of food and stuff, but I want to know specifics about how to read poop.:laughitup:
Obviously, soft poop, messy edges rather than round edges, or runny poops = diarrhea. And few poops, small poops, or no poops = constipation. I got that much.
My chin came with a bag of crappy food when we first got him. I had read up a bunch online about good foods and Mazuri was mentioned a lot. Since I had seen Mazuri at the pet store, we transitioned him on to that which is what he's on now. It seemed simple. For a while after we started him on Mazuri, his poops were HUGE. They had seriously almost doubled in size lengthwise. Also they got very dark, which they still are. In the past two or three days, however, his poops are a normal size for the most part, but intermittently, he drops little oval pebbles - usually a few at a time. Then he'll poop normal, then small. So it's not that he's pooping LESS. They're just coming out in all shapes and sizes. I'm very confused about it and I'm thinking I need to switch him to Oxbow or something, but I do want to irritate the situation more by switching him again. He eats plenty of hay all day long- possibly more than his pellets. He does pick and dig through the Mazuri as some people have mentioned. His treats range from rosehips, apple wood sticks, a cheerio, a sunflower seed, to the OCCASIONAL raisin or dried cranberry. He seems happy and normal... just pooping weird.:skeptical:
Obviously, soft poop, messy edges rather than round edges, or runny poops = diarrhea. And few poops, small poops, or no poops = constipation. I got that much.
My chin came with a bag of crappy food when we first got him. I had read up a bunch online about good foods and Mazuri was mentioned a lot. Since I had seen Mazuri at the pet store, we transitioned him on to that which is what he's on now. It seemed simple. For a while after we started him on Mazuri, his poops were HUGE. They had seriously almost doubled in size lengthwise. Also they got very dark, which they still are. In the past two or three days, however, his poops are a normal size for the most part, but intermittently, he drops little oval pebbles - usually a few at a time. Then he'll poop normal, then small. So it's not that he's pooping LESS. They're just coming out in all shapes and sizes. I'm very confused about it and I'm thinking I need to switch him to Oxbow or something, but I do want to irritate the situation more by switching him again. He eats plenty of hay all day long- possibly more than his pellets. He does pick and dig through the Mazuri as some people have mentioned. His treats range from rosehips, apple wood sticks, a cheerio, a sunflower seed, to the OCCASIONAL raisin or dried cranberry. He seems happy and normal... just pooping weird.:skeptical: