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My puppy has diarrhea on Proplan. Is the food's fat content to blame?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Labrador Retriever | Male | unneutered | 6 months and 19 days old | 88 lbs

Hi! Wally eats Proplan Focus puppy chicken & rice and his feces are very soft almost diarrhea. The food is for all breeds (toy to giant) 4 days ago I'm mixing it up with rice in every meal and the feces are much better. My question is: could be the % fat of the meal? He eats 210 grams a day. I tried to give him a little without rice and the feces are bad. I don't know what to do. The food of puppy large breed has less % of fat. Thank you so much.

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Answered By David Elbeze, DVM, MRCVS

Veterinarian

Published on June 17th, 2017

No, it's not likely to be the fat content but it is probably one or more ingredients in the food that is causing this. i would recommend switching to a different food ASAP, i recommend Accana, Orijen or Evolve.

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