Several of the components of White Bites treats are white in color, including Baking Soda (Sodium Bicarbonate), Calcium carbonate, and the white food coloring Titanium Dioxide. Other ingredients in the White Bites treats (such as Wheat Gluten and Sodium Caseinate) are light colored. All of these combined can lighten the color of your dog's stools. This is perfectly natural and safe, however, as all of the ingredients used in White Bites treats are considered safe for humans and animals.

NO. All ingredients in White Bites treats are common to either pet or human food ingredients, and they are rigorously evaluated for their quality and consistency upon receipt. There are no harmful ingredients in White Bites treats to cause a healthy dog to become ill. Illness can occur if you allow your dog to eat chunks of the White Bites treats, as White Bites treats must be adequately chewed.

Believe it or not, mucousy stools can appear any time, no matter how long one has been BARFing, and is generally no reason for concern. When first starting BARF, this may be a sign that the digestion track is ridding the junk out of it's system (normal part of detox). Mucousy stools can also be related to feeding dairy products. If you are feeding dairy, try cutting them out for a few days and see if this was the culprit. It can also mean an inflammation of the intestinal track.

Tapeworms segments or fly maggots are often mistaken for grains of rice. You should bring in a stool sample that contains the rice-like material. Also, a complete physical examination of the pet is often helpful.

The worms that you are seeing are more than likely tapeworms and pets get them from ingesting fleas or eating dead rodents. Tapeworms are parasitic flatworms that are in the class Cestoda. All tapeworms spend the adult phase of their lives as parasites in the gut of a vertebrate animal (called the primary host). Most tapeworms spend part of their life cycle in the tissues of one or more other animals (called intermediate hosts), which are usually fleas but can be other vertebrates.

Flint River Ranch food is very rich and contains very little useless filler. Because of this, some pets may have a softer stool during their change to Flint River Ranch. This food actually cleans mucuous from your pet's digestive tract rather than just sliding through the system. In time your pets will have firmer and much smaller stool for easy clean-up.

Yes, this is completely normal for a BARFing dog. The reason your dog is pooping less is because most of the food he is now ingesting, is being digested and properly utilized by the body...thus, less waste. The RMBs account for it turning white. If you notice your dog straining while pooping, you can up the veggies a bit; however, straining a little bit can help express the anal glands, which would normally be done by your vet, at a price!

Havanese are part of the Bichon canine family, but are a distinct breed. Havanese come in all colors and combinations of colors. I've never heard of that breed. Are they recognized by the AKC? They were admitted to the American Kennel Club (AKC) in 1995 and are at present in the miscellaneous class. They will eventually be admitted to the toy class. You can learn more about the Havanese on the AKC Internet site.

This is a naturally occurring result of the olive undergoing fermentation. It is harmless, and does not affect the taste of the olives.

These are called tapeworms. A cat gets these from ingesting fleas that carry tapeworm larvae, or by eating small animals that are carrying larvae. Tapeworms can only be eliminated with prescription medication, There are no over the counter medications to effectively rid tapeworms.

Believe it or not, mucousy stools can appear any time, no matter how long one has been BARFing, and is generally no reason for concern. When first starting BARF, this may be a sign that the digestion track is ridding the junk out of it's system (normal part of detox). Mucousy stools can also be related to feeding dairy products. If you are feeding dairy, try cutting them out for a few days and see if this was the culprit. It can also mean an inflammation of the intestinal track.

My puppy is not quite 6 months old. She hasn't started losing her teeth yet but I expect it to begin any day now. My question is, in your opinion, when is a good time to get her spayed? She has not gone into "heat" yet, but I don't think I should be waiting for that... My dog will, from time to time, make a choking noise which kind of sounds like honking. If I let her go outside, it makes it better. It is almost as though something is caught in her throat. She is not ill or any thing.

All customer enquiries are important to us & we do try & return all phone calls & phone back when we say we will. There are 4 main reasons we might not have called back: We do sometimes forget to return phone calls, we receive a very large amount of enquiries at White Dog & while most are answered, a few do get 'lost in the pile of things to do'.

There is no chlorine used in our pool. An ozonator cleans and disinfects the water without the use of any chemicals.

The scentless solution has been found to be extremely safe. Its ozone-friendly propellant is the same inert product used in asthma pumps for humans.

Dogs instinctively view closed in areas such as doghouses or airline crates as "dens" or safe places. When pre-conditioned to a crate an airline trip can be less traumatic than a long car ride.

The Miniature Schnauzer was developed to be an identical version of the Standard Schnauzer. The Standard Schnauzer has never come in the white color. Our history of the evolvement of the breed indicate that there probably were introductions of other breeds to reduce the size of the original breed. The originators of the breed recommended not breeding the whites and parti-colors that appeared. This was to preserve the breed as it was intended.

Depending on what your dog has presently been eating, stool size ins generally much more compact and odorless than when a dog has been fed processed pet foods. This is because our BARF diet contains no extra or unnecessary fillers or grains. Fillers and grains are much harder to digest and thus are eliminated from the body without being utilized- thus causing a more voluminous stool. The stool color may vary somewhat depending on which protein source is being fed.