Puppy Help

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Ok here's the deal. I have a beagle pup that is around 3.5 months old.

House training went very well, and about 4 weeks ago he started sleeping through the night.

Now about 2 weeks ago he started waking up to go piss, no big deal.

Now for the last week he has been chitting in his crate(even after I made it smaller).

He doesn't whine until after the fact....I literally hear him whine, put my pants on and walk out to smell chit.

Anyone have any ideas? It's gotten to the point that it will be 2 times a night and if it keeps up I'm gonna be trying real hard not to throw him across the room.

The kicker of the deal is, he can go 8 hours in the crate all day if we are gone and have no accidents. Also his crap has been getting rather soft...could it be a food deal?

 

[captjacksparrow]

I thought the more expensive food idea was just a myth but I tell ya, I was wrong. We now buy the better food from the vet and our cocker spanial craps less than half as much. It used to be all over the lawn now we hardly even see it anymore. The cheap store shelf stuff, is full of fillers and has no goodness so it just goes right through them. We ran out of the good stuff one weekend so the wife went to Walmart and grabbed a small bag of whatever they had and sure enough he was crapping everwhere with in a few hours. I will never buy anything other than the vet stuff from now on. Plus without the filler that does no good, he eats way less and so it doesn't cost that much more.

 

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I was wondering about that. We've been feeding him IAMS and never had troubles until just now.

 

[Scott]

What's your feeding schedule? Don't feed him so late at night?

 

[Ex-Member]

I was wondering about that. We've been feeding him IAMS and never had troubles until just now.

My border collie gets Iams, doesn't have a problem with it. When he spends the night at the vet, whatever they feed him tears him up. Gurgly stomach, slimy diarrhea, chows down on grass whenever he's outside... the whole thing. Iams seems to do him well.

 

[winter brew]

Also watch the quantity of food you feed him....and don't feed soft, just kibble with water. I would think 1 cup 3x/day would be adequate using a quality food.....if it persists, consider changing food.

 

[TurboM700]

WE have 2 King Charles Spainels one 8 and the 9 months old. The 8 month old when he was 6 months did the exact same thing. We switched his food back to IAMS we were feeding him high end food got better but still had loose Crap. Took him to the vet it turns out he had a parisight (sp). That he got from eating rabbit crap. A couple or pills later and he was all better. It showed up after we got him nueter (sp) the vet said the stress from nuetering him made the parisight stronger. just a little FYI

Mike

 

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thanks guys.

we are going to the vet to check for bugs on Wednesday...nothing like bagging fresh poop to take in.

I'll check the make up of the IAMS tonight.

As for a feeding schedule, he has been allowed to kind of graze during the day, but nothing really after 3pm besides a small biscut if he's good.

I really think he may have ate something since this just started and he had been going through the night and one long day 11 hours accident free.