How many #2's each day?

[mcc.christina]

Hi all,

Eloise is almost 6 months!! If I had my camera, I would attach a recent picture. Her coloring is changing beautifully. Anywho...

I am wondering how many times your dogs go poo in a day. Eloise has been going ~3 times a day, sometimes 4. She will either have one tiny poo in the middle of the night or right in the morning and then a larger poo later, but still before breakfast. She has these little poos and then larger ones. I have learned to stand completely still while she is pooing because if I move she stops. Oh, she uses an Ugodog but also will go outside during walks.

I have started to keep track and hopefully that will shed some light.

She gets breakfast and dinner at the same time everyday and a partial kong with pb when I leave. She has also been doing swimmingly with training, so her treats are decreasing. Could the treats and pb be why she is going #2 so much?

Thanks for any responses!

[Luciledodd]

It depends on what you are feeding Eloise. The more grain the more they poo. But I have found over the years that it takes a couple of years for them to only go once a day. Even the big dogs usually only go once a day if fed a high quality food. Rosie usually goes the last thing before bedtime.

[Luciledodd]

It depends on what you are feeding Eloise. If the food is mostly grain, she will go more. But shee is still young. I have found over the years with big and little dogs that they are aroun 2 before they only go once a day. Course it does depend on a high quality food. Some foods will g right through them.

[TilliesMom]

not sure. Tillie goes 2-3 times a day normally and she is completely grain free.

[Suzi]

Mine go at least 3 each .

[whimsy]

2 times..sometimes 3.

[Beau's mom]

3 . . . sometimes 4 (Beau is almost 2 years old)

[krandall]

Kodi normlly goes twice a day. Every once in a while, he'll go a third time, especially if he has been running a lot on a hike. Conversely, if he has been sitting around a lot on a rainy day, he sometimes skips the afternoon/evening poop. He ALWAYS poops right after breakfast.

[misstray]

Brody will be 2 in February and he goes 3 times and sometimes 4 (and as a puppy he went even more often than that!). I can never figure out how on earth he needs to go at bed time and then again first thing in the morning. His kibble is grain free.

I keep telling him to feel free to give up a poop or two, but so far he isn't listening.

[motherslittlehelper]

Less poos with grain free doesn't hold true at our house. Finn is grain free and goes 2-4 times a day, usually 3. Augie is not on grain free and he goes twice a day usually, sometimes 3, but not often. Finn is 2.5 yrs. Augie is 4.

Oops!! - Finn is 1.5 - 20 months actually. Wow, they get old fast enough without me adding years on them!