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What to do if your dog has hard and dry stools

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This article is provided by Veterinarian Dr. Lucas Davis
Dry and hard stools in dogs can be improved by adjusting the dog's diet, allowing the dog to drink more water, supplementing intestinal beneficial bacteria, and increasing the amount of exercise. First of all, you can stop the dog's dry food, replace it with liquid food or dog food that is easy to digest and absorb, and let the dog drink more water. Secondly, you can feed your dog an appropriate amount of 2-3 probiotics to improve the gastrointestinal environment, promote intestinal peristalsis, and help your dog defecate smoothly. In addition, in daily life, owners should also pay attention to keeping their dogs properly exercising, which can help their dogs enhance gastrointestinal motility and relieve dry and hard stools.

1. Adjust the dog’s diet

If the dog’s usual diet is relatively dry and the amount of water it drinks is relatively small, it is easy to suffer from constipation. Therefore, when owners find that their dogs have dry and hard stools, they need to adjust their diet in time, such as temporarily replacing hard and dry dog ​​food with liquid foods that are easy to digest and absorb, such as minced meat porridge, millet porridge, and vegetable porridge. Porridge, etc., you can also feed some vegetables and fruits appropriately, such as bananas, carrots and pumpkins, etc. to promote gastrointestinal digestion and relieve dry and hard stools.

2. Let the dog drink more water

In addition to adjusting the dog's diet structure, the owner must also let the dog drink more water and change the dog's drinking water in time. If the dog is unwilling to drink water, you can add goat milk powder or honey to the water to induce the dog to drink more water, or feed it some food with high water content, such as canned food, wet food, etc.

3. Supplement intestinal beneficial bacteria

Some dogs have limited gastrointestinal digestion capacity and poor gastrointestinal motility. Therefore, after adjusting the diet structure, the dog still finds that If the stool is dry and hard, the owner can feed the dog some pet probiotics, which can promote gastrointestinal motility and relieve the dry and hard stool. At the same time, owners should also pay attention to observation. If the pet still does not improve after feeding probiotics, it is recommended to take the dog to the pet hospital for treatment in time.

4. Increase the amount of exercise

If a dog stays at home for a long time and lacks exercise, it is easy for dogs to have dry and hard stools and constipation. Therefore, owners should also pay attention to allowing their dogs to do appropriate exercises, such as walking or trotting, and replenishing their dogs with sufficient water in a timely manner. This can promote the dog's body metabolism and intestinal peristalsis, thus Relieve dry and hard stoolscondition, and also facilitates its digestion.

Note: If there is no obvious improvement after taking the above methods, and the dog is constipated for a long time, it is recommended to consult a pet doctor in time and under the guidance of the pet doctor Use Kaiselu to help your dog poop.

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