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rice not digesting

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Nate

he's our angel- :)

Barked: Sun Oct 18, '09 7:29am PST


	hi everyone! i'm hudson's brother nate. meeko (our younger bro) & i have now joined hudson on a full home cooked diet as of friday. hudson is allergic to rice so he eats barley but mommy made brown rice for meeko & i. when i went poop this morning mommy noticed that she could she the rice in my poop...is there something she can do to help me better digest it??

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Addy, CGC

Let's go for a- walk!

Barked: Sun Oct 18, '09 7:49am PST


	For most dogs, cooked rice, whether white or brown, is highly digestible. White rice is somewhat more digestible than brown, but for most dogs, neither is a problem. HOWEVER, nothing works for everyone, and if you are sure the rice was properly cooked, I'd try it once more, see how it goes, and decide based on that whether you want to continue using it. Rice does not work for every dog. Alternatives to brown rice might be white rice, potato, sweet potato, barley, oats.

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Kiki - My Angel- Baby Girl

Hey, hey! Drop- the meat, I'm a- waitin'!

Barked: Sun Oct 18, '09 8:54am PST


	I would add more water and make it a real mushy rice or switch to white rice. We eat white rice and even that, mom makes is real mushy before we would eat it.

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Nate

he's our angel- :)

Barked: Sun Oct 18, '09 9:09am PST


	thanks!!

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quigley

wigley- quigley,the- quigster

Barked: Sun Oct 18, '09 11:51am PST


	Hi Nate, this has happened to Quigley too and the rice seems to come out the same as it went in. I found this happens with brown rice mainly. I cook it for longer to make it mushier and he is normally fine.

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Nate

he's our angel- :)

Barked: Wed Oct 21, '09 12:37pm PST


	thanks quigley...mommy will try that for me too

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Lily

Whose bed?? Why- would YOU think- that?

Barked: Fri Oct 23, '09 7:11pm PST


	Overcooked white rice - add more water, then when he adjusts to that, you can add part brown - same deal - overcook it with extra water.

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Daddy

Changing one- mind at a time - APBT style

Barked: Mon Oct 26, '09 10:13pm PST


	In addition to the suggestions above you could grind it up in a blender or food processor, this usually helps dogs digest vegetable matter better as well.