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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 2:09:30 GMT -5
When you feed a carnivore a good quality, highly digestible diet, they waste less, therefore they poop less. When you feed them a low quality, less-digestible diet, they waste more, thus making the poops larger. More to clean up, more to smell. (I know most here know that, but just throwing that out there for emphasis). I put the info there because one would assume that a baby's poop would be smaller than the adult's poop. Nope. Just something for reference, if you wondered if a good diet really does make them poop less. I'd say so.  ETA: Kit is on Marshall's food. Adult is on Merrick's Before Grain cat food. (Raw was getting expensive, but she does get soupies with raw in it).   |
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Post by Sherry on Mar 3, 2012 2:11:13 GMT -5
Diet makes one heck of a difference, doesn't it ;D
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 2:45:47 GMT -5
RIght on! Also you could emphasize before and after - show the amount of food PRIOR to ingesting, and the final result - ideally over the course of a 24 hour period- will really help illustrate TDN (total digestible nutrients).
Consider the size of the intestinal tract and imagine that amount of junk food having to get pushed through daily. Always distending and stretching the intestine and colon, stretching taut such viable, soft tissues; scratched and scraped by undigestible, sharp edged rough ground grains... hmmm- wonder where IBS gets its start?
Tootsie roll sized deposits are NOT proper poops from ferrets!
I did a poop dissection a few years back, do a forum search for scat dissection.
You are on the right track!
Cheers,
Kim
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 11:28:41 GMT -5
The change in Rolo's poops was so drastic when I switched him from Marshalls to Orijen Cat & Kitten I thought I was doing something wrong haha. Did some research and realized it was a good thing his poops were so small. (He was fed Marshalls at the pet store, and I had to buy a small bag to do a gradual change.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 11:44:09 GMT -5
For those workign with grain free kibble, look into Wysong Epigen 90. It is fully starch free. I was having problems with the ferts having slightly runny stools. I added a tablespoon of this to their food bowl and saw an immediate improvement the next day. It is also formulated for ferret digestive tracks, so I see that as a bonus. I'm currently trying to get mine to also eat whole mice, but am having difficulty.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2012 12:18:06 GMT -5
I wish I would've take a before and after poop picture...lol but yea, night and day. He was on Marshall's at the pet store and had these giant, yellow poopies (after I checked the poop chart realized it was normal kibble though) every time.
You guys should've seen my dogs! He was on taste of the wild from the beginning (whn we got him at 10 weeks old)which is grain free, so it's the better kind, but still. Sometimes was wondering where did all the poop came from... Since on raw barely any. Yay! And the funniest part if I miss cleaning up one in the yard, after a couple of days it turns into this white powder and just disappears. (I clean up every day though;-)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2013 22:04:57 GMT -5
I cannot wait for my fuzzies to have small poops especially to those fuzzies of mine that love to go right outside the litter box
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Post by Sherry on Jan 19, 2013 23:31:58 GMT -5
Just wait until it's liver poopies  ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by bitbyter on Jan 20, 2013 9:33:28 GMT -5
Yep, when my girls went through the switch to raw I thought something was wrong as well due to the change in size of their poops. The difference is incredible.
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Post by Sherry on Jan 20, 2013 11:09:15 GMT -5
However- the SMELL that comes from the box during detox is unbelievable It does pass, it's simply toxins leaving the body, but EWWWW |
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