Pumpkin

[Anonymous]

My dog was 💩 and not in a normal way.

I added a teaspoon of pumpkin 🎃 to his kibble. He immediately improved. His 💩 is back to looking like little tootsie rolls.

I don't know what is in the pumpkin that helps, but it works almost immediately.

It's a $1.59 can of awesome goodness. I divided the 15 ounce pumpkin 🎃 into ice cube trays and froze them. I have convenient single tablespoon servings to use.

Anyone else have positive experiences with 🎃?

[Anonymous]

Yup. Pumpkin is known to help diarrhea for both dogs and cats. It adds roughage.

Just be sure it's 100% pureed pumpkin, and not pumpkin pie filling, loaded with sugar and other stuff!

[Anonymous]

Our puppy threw it up. Maybe we will try it once she is older.

[Anonymous]

Pumpkin is great for a quick fix. We have a breed that rarely produces formed stool without help, so we give him dehydrated carrots with each meal. We rehydrate them in water and add some salmon oil since they’re fat soluble. Now it’s easy to pick up after him.

[Anonymous]

I bought it from Target. The ingredient list is just pumpkin. It has no added sugar.

[Anonymous]

I include 2-3 dollops of pumpkin in my dog's kibble every single morning in an effort to thicken up her poops. Her stool isn't soft, it just is smaller/thinner and she has anal gland leakage sometimes.

The vet did not suggest manual expressing the glands and instead recommended I thicken her poops with diet changes. About 6 months in, it has worked very well.

[Anonymous]

This is very well known for years, OP.

[Anonymous]

Yep, works for me too.

[Anonymous]

I have used pumpkin puree and also powdered pumpkin sprinkled directly on the kibble. It works sometimes, and sometimes it doesen't.

I've heard good things about Bernie's Perfect Poop and just ordered some from Amazon. My vet said that some dogs just have chronically soft poop and said I could try Metamucil too.

[Anonymous]

OP here. My dog always consistently has tootsie roll poop. I was just happy that something as simple as adding pumpkin would help.

Usually, he won't eat his breakfast kibble. He will eat the breakfast kibble around the same time he eats the dinner kibble. Drives me nuts.

This morning, I added the tablespoon of pumpkin to his kibble, and he actually at the entire breakfast bowl of kibble. That has to be better for him than how he usually eats: breakfast kibble and dinner kibble one right after the other at dinner time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My dog always consistently has tootsie roll poop. I was just happy that something as simple as adding pumpkin would help.

Usually, he won't eat his breakfast kibble. He will eat the breakfast kibble around the same time he eats the dinner kibble. Drives me nuts.

This morning, I added the tablespoon of pumpkin to his kibble, and he actually at the entire breakfast bowl of kibble. That has to be better for him than how he usually eats: breakfast kibble and dinner kibble one right after the other at dinner time.

Please consider exploring new foods that are NOT kibble. There are so many higher quality options these days like human grade dehydrated (see Honest Kitchen) or freeze dried (see Stella and Chewy).

[Anonymous]

Yes we give our dog a little pumpkin with every meal and definitely helps make it easier to pick up the poops. Vet recommended.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My dog always consistently has tootsie roll poop. I was just happy that something as simple as adding pumpkin would help.

Usually, he won't eat his breakfast kibble. He will eat the breakfast kibble around the same time he eats the dinner kibble. Drives me nuts.

This morning, I added the tablespoon of pumpkin to his kibble, and he actually at the entire breakfast bowl of kibble. That has to be better for him than how he usually eats: breakfast kibble and dinner kibble one right after the other at dinner time.

Eating only once a day is actually very healthy for dogs. It's how they would eat in the wild and, like for humans, it's basically intermittent fasting and has health benefits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. My dog always consistently has tootsie roll poop. I was just happy that something as simple as adding pumpkin would help.

Usually, he won't eat his breakfast kibble. He will eat the breakfast kibble around the same time he eats the dinner kibble. Drives me nuts.

This morning, I added the tablespoon of pumpkin to his kibble, and he actually at the entire breakfast bowl of kibble. That has to be better for him than how he usually eats: breakfast kibble and dinner kibble one right after the other at dinner time.

Please consider exploring new foods that are NOT kibble. There are so many higher quality options these days like human grade dehydrated (see Honest Kitchen) or freeze dried (see Stella and Chewy).

I agree, though I am skeptical about Stella and Chewy ingredients. Honest Kitchen is good but my dog won't eat that porridge consistency. I feed Spot and Tango UnKibble and Dr. Harvey's mixed with meat, oil, probiotics and grain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pumpkin is great for a quick fix. We have a breed that rarely produces formed stool without help, so we give him dehydrated carrots with each meal. We rehydrate them in water and add some salmon oil since they’re fat soluble. Now it’s easy to pick up after him.

What breed is that? I did not know that was a thing.