Hi everybody, I'm getting desperate.
My pup is now 5 months old. For the first 6 weeks after bringing him home from the breeder he was fed on Pedigree 'Advance' dry food for Puppies. Then he decided that he did not like dry food anymore, so we switched him onto Pedigree Puppy in cans, which at least he eats.
Now comes the tricky part, how do I put this 'delicately'? Since he has been on canned food, he has been 'Passing Wind'. ( I've got other words that express it better but 'Passing Wind' will have to do.) It has now reached a stage whereby I have to leave the room when he has one of his 'Gas Attacks'. Also, because we are such 'softies', at night he sleeps, on his own dogbed, in our bedroom. The air is blue and almost killing us, but the pup sleeps on with a contented smile on his face, blissfully unaware of all this 'Fug'.

I really do need help urgently!!!!!! Please, can anyone suggest a canned dog food which is odourless of gasses?

I do mean URGENT as the wife is looking at me with a funny expression. Even when I tell her "It's Not ME".

Crosseyed and holding my breath,

Harry C.

You could try giving him some charcol biscuits with his feed Harry it worked for my Border Collie pup.Gillian

Well Harry, after calling me a 'Peasant' I'm sitting back here chuckling into my sleeve!!!

J (with a satisfied smirk on his face) :D:p:D

Hi Harry, I don't bare a grudge even if J does ;)
He's too young to have bad teeth yet so leaving out serious illness, which again is unlikely, you are down to diet. All dog food is o/k although of course some are better than others. I would try something else. As a little aside, you say he is a bit picky about food? If I remember right, he's a Golden? Goldens are not maybe quite as much of a Gannet as my Labradors but then again, they do usually have healthy appetites! You are not by any chance maybe slightly over feeding? It takes all sorts to make a world so of course you may just have the one and only picky Golden!

Hope this helps but keep us informed of developments

John :)

Oh 'NOBLE' J, How could you think for one moment that I was maligning you.
I was 'Defending' you. I did not want people to confuse you with a pheasant.

At least you have the advantage over me, you can laugh up your sleeve. With me in a string vest.......NO Sleeves.
:) :) :)

Harry C.

Hi Harry - Rhum is 5 months too and if its any consolation - we have the same problem and he is on dry food. Perhaps the fact that he doesn't care what he eats from animal, vegetable or mineral or anything else won't help. My husband goes into great dramatics every night. The window gets flung open and papers/magazines (or anything) is waved about wildly!!! Luckily, I don't have such a sensitive nose, but even I had to agree and put him out (Rhum, not husband) last night. It is usually a warning that he "needs", but I wish he would get up and let us know some other way and not just continuing sleeping blissfully unaware of his body requirments!!! He is such a grub and ALWAYS has something in his mouth!!! (no funny comments please). He was a bit sick this morning - no food there though, just little sticks - at least 10!!! Can you see him getting a blockage and me getting a nice vets bill in due course!!!

Hi Shirley,
Are you sure that RHUM dosen't have just a 'smidgen' of Beaver in his ancestry. All the signs are there. Gathering of sticks and twigs, the building of dams etc.

Take my tip. If he should, get a blockage, don't bother taking him to the vets, call DYNA-ROD straight away. Much cheaper!!!!!!

Lovely to hear that you and your other half are fellow sufferers
:) :)
Harry C.

I read your post, Harry, and Shirley's, and it was like looking in the mirror.

I have the world's other picky golden, by the sounds of it. That is, picky when it comes to dry food (wot, nothing mixed in with it?!, says the dog) but totally catholic tastes when it comes to anything else in our house or garden. Most embarrassing was going to the vet's last week when we were due to leave on holiday - why does it always happen then? - because I genuinely thought she'd swallowed her puppy collar. Couldn't find it anywhere. Turned out the littlest family human had hidden it (ha ha!) and the reason she was being sick etc was probably that she'd just eaten the garden.

Only one thing for it - the lorries arrive tomorrow to concrete the whole thing over lol

Merlin

Harry, stop blaming the dog!!! Maybe you should stop having all those late night baltis and booze!!!!(only joking) - seriously, now thinking back Scarlet used to be pretty smelly as a pup (always seemed to get bad wind at obedience training which was quite embarrassing - didn't want people to think it was me!)..

Hi Merlin,
It sounds like yours and mine are 'Litter Mates'. 'Junk Food Monsters', at the moment 'Brady's' favourite tit-bits are other peoples discarded tissues and ciggarette dog-ends. I may get on to Pedigree to see if they could add these ingredients into their canned puppy food. Maybe then he wouldn't be so 'picky'.

Nature is so fickle!!!! How can Goldies look like 'angels' and smell like 'devils'.

I wish I had bought a parrot instead.

Good luck with your concreting.

Harry C.

Hello Harry

Tissues - yes. Amazing how many are left on the street. She finds them all. And did you know there are millions of cigarette ends, all left in great clumps, just for eating. Sort of fast food for retrievers.

Concreting's going fine, thanks. Pity the family didn't get out of the garden in time, but there you go.

Merlin

one of our flatcoats used to be ever so picky - throughout we kept her on dried food just trying different types - but we would also mix in a bit of canned meat and milk to give it that extra appeal - after she was happily eating we slowly reduced the amount of meat added till she was eating just the dried food - needless to say she now eats with no trouble and has even become so quick at times she finishes before our pup! at a time when she was just on canned food she did get a bit windy but as soon as she went on to the mainly dried food with just a little meat mixed in

Hi there

Had the same problem with my Collie when he was eating commercial dog food. Now that I give him a natural diet - NO MORE PROBLEMS!!

Harry - Rhum went a bit funny not wanting his food, but I have discovered that Pedigree Chum do a box of bone shaped biscuits - gravy flavour! I crumble 2 in 1/3 mug of hot water and pour it over the dry food - he wolfs it down now. I had to laugh at your post and, yes, perhaps there is beaver in there - he adores water and is very kamikazee leaping of high banks into water etc. We also love discarded chewing gum and cigarette butts. We have had a decapitated bird head in our mouth (nearly made me boke up) and we haved learned how to remove, very quietly, the toilet roll from the bathroom holder and desimate the loo roll all over the hall - managed two yesterday and then looked sad/extremely sorry when caught (but we all know he wasn't). Today we have only snacked on a few branches, tulips, grass and finished off with a bit of guinea-pig poo! What more can a young upandcoming gundog ask for out of life?

This does not help the windy dog but can help get rid of the "results"

When that distinctive smell drifts across your nostrils light a match (and just hope that the methaneis not sufficient enough to cause an explosion <g>).

Somehow the burning sulphur seems to negate the wind

Christine

Hi Everybody who replied,
Thanks for all your helpful suggestions. We have been giving 'Ponggo Billy' a couple of charcole Bonio biscuites about an hour before we go to bed, and it seems to have done the trick. (that and a clothes peg on my nose).

Mind you the next morning, where he has decided to deposit the previous nights 'Bonios' it looks revolting, like the bottom of the Black Lagoon. :-))

Thanks again everyone.

Harry C.