Kirkland lamb rice and vegetable dog food

[3Musketeers]

4 cups a day sounds like way too much, remember that when feeding a higher quality food, the amount the dog needs to consume cuts down considerably. If you switch to Nature's Domain, definitely start out with less than what the bag says, it it says 3 cups, give 2 for a few days and if her poop is solid, then you can increase a little more, if she doesn't start to lose weight on two cups , then no need to give any more.

[cprcheetah]

My sisters 90# bouvier just gets 2 cups a day of this food. When Shellie (70#) was on kibble she only at 1 & 1/2 cups of food. Overfeeding can definitely cause loose stools.

[Jack Monzon]

I'd reduce the current food before trying a different food.

[PDXdogmom]

I hope your transition goes well. Another thought - I know that a number of dogs frequently don't process lamb well and tend to be gassy on it. So, switching away from lamb is a good strategy at this point. It also sounds like you may have been overfeeding. Almost every bag of food I've come across in the past several decades has listed the amount to feed at a significantly higher amount than my dogs actually could handle.

[Tracey]

Thanks everyone who responded it has been really helpful, I had to do a bit of research to find out if the Costco near me carried Nature's Domain and luckily they did apparently it has just started being sold here in Canada. I am 3 days into the transition and my male didn't have loose stools with it, but boy did he stink and he is smelling much pretty now. My female that was having the problem seems to be doing better. She is 67 lbs so I have on 1.5 to 2 cups per day. Her stools are still loose but she is holding it long enough to let me know she needs to go out, before she couldn't hold it.