If you’ve recently switched your cat or dog to a raw diet, they may experience stools that are very loose or they may seem like their constipated with very hard stools. This is completely normal and natural. Once their digestive system has adapted, stools should be firm, small, essentially odorless and quick to dry out and decompose.

Since there are no fillers, and it’s all food, your cat or dog digests most of it and there’s much less waste than with other non-raw foods. Therefore there’s much less waste to expel from their systems resulting in very small, firm stools. Firm stools naturally express anal glands helping to prevent impacted anal glands that many dogs and cats who are fed kibble diets suffer from. Straining a bit to eliminate is expected.

If your cat or dog continues to have constipation issues, or is severely straining to eliminate, it may be due to inefficient digestion of bone matter. Try replacing 10% - 20% of the current diet with some of our sardines, organs or boneless options such as, Salmon Grind or Venison Grind.