An article in one of our Mag/Journal sections says that ” improving your dog’s diet reduces dog droppings by two thirds.” Here’s the data.
Different diets produce different output results
According to a statement from Department of Animal Sciences and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Illinois. the idea was to test the digestibility of four commercially available diets: a standard extruded diet (kibble); a fresh, refrigerated diet; and two fresh diets made using only USDA-certified human-grade ingredients.
These fresh diets include minimally processed ingredients such as beef, chicken, rice, carrots, broccoli, and others in small chunks or a sort of casserole.
Four beagles were fed each of these diets for four weeks at a time. The researchers found that dogs fed the extruded diet had to eat more to maintain their body weight, and produced 1.5 to 2.9 times as much poop as any of the fresh diets.
The researchers say that this is consistent with studies in humans. Read more here.
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