Hi, I'm new here and new to greyhounds - we adopted Bob from Dogs Trust a month ago. He is skinny at 33kg, at least 5 ribs visible and doesn't seem to have gained weight yet. When he came to us he was eating Wainwrights salmon and potato dry food with Wainwrights salmon and potato tinned food on top. We were advised to feed 500g dry food per day (200g, 100g, 200g meals) with 1/4 to 1/2 a can on top of each meal (I do 1/3 can). He was wormed and flea treated before coming to us.
He'd had loose poos from the start, but he came to us on painkillers as he was castrated 2 days before we got him, so we put a lot of it down to nervousness and the drugs.
He continued with the loose poos and killer gas, and going at least 4 or 5 times a day so we decided to change his food. We're just about fully transitioned over to new biscuits and I want to change his meat over soon as well because of the potato. His poop seems to have firmed up a bit and improved in colour for at least the first one in the morning, though they degrade as the day goes on, or throughout his walk! Farts are always worse in the afternoon into the evening
Anyway, I guess I'm looking for recommendations of gentle wet food to move over to, and how long to wait before we do that. And how long does it take to know there's an improvement from changing over? Also, could we just be overfeeding? I know we want him to put a bit of weight on but I'm not sure if the amount of food could be counterproductive?
Thanks
Sarah