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#1 · (Edited)
I know bone is supposed to be 10% of the diet but some does require more.... my question is do some require less? Here's the deal: I'm at a hotel this week and I have to take the dogs out on the leash vs letting them out in the yard so I'm noticing their poop habits. I fed my sheltie bone on Sunday before we left... just a chicken leg. She has eaten tongue/heart the rest of the week and one meal of elk. She didn't poop Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday... and when she pooped on Thursday it was so tiny I could barely see it and it was crumbly! I didn't bring organs with me this week b/c I forgot but she gets liver/spleen/testicals/lung regularly. She had never had tongue and heart almost always loosens her up... I just find it odd? My other dogs only pooped once since we've been here but theirs looked fine. I usually only feed them one bone meal a week since their % is around 4 ounces a week. Should I add more organs to keep her from being constipated?

Thanks for tips!

Oh, I wanted to add before Sunday's bone meal she hadn't had bone since, I believe, Wednesday?
 
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#2 ·
You could just feed more boneless meals. Some do require less bone, some more. I have one, Copper who has to have more bone than the other three. Each dog is an individual, so I see the 80-10-10 rule as more of a guideline than anything. Adjust according to your dog. Try a boneless meal or two, and see what happens and go from there. You may not need to feed bone more than two or three times a week, or you may find she is just digesting it all really well!
 
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She already gets a bone meal only once a week.
 
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yes, I think some do require less bone.

I'm pretty sure Snorkels could get zero bone and still be constipated. But I don't want her to get low on calcium, so I feed her alot more organs than most dogs get so she can stay close to 10 percent. If she's constipated and I'm not giving her bone, I give her eggshells because they don't constipate her.
 
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