She may very well be eating them; my Aussie loved sugar pears. It could certainly contribute to loose stools. Try raking them all up and keeping them away from her; if her bowel movements don't return to normal in a couple of days, call your vet.
Do yourself a favor and stop wasting your money on ';large breed puppy chow.'; In most brands, it's just the ordinary adult chow in a different bag with a higher price tag. If you really want to do a good thing for her, give up on commercial dog food altogether and switch her to her natural diet.
I feed raw/prey model; my 50-pound shar-pei mix gets about 12oz a day, but when I have a gorge meal for her, like a turkey carcass that will take her 4-5 hours to eat, she won't be hungry or interested in food for 2-3 days.
A dog is fed 2-3% of the ideal body weight each day. A puppy gets 2-3% of the ideal anticipated adult weight each day, divided into 4 meals.
The ideal diet should consist of approximately 80% raw meat, 10% raw edible bone, 5% raw liver, 5% other raw organs, the occasional egg, shell and all, raw.
NO veggies, NO fruit. Dogs cannot digest vegetables or fruits; they lack the enzyme necessary to break down cellulose. Look at cows: they have the enzyme, and they still need four stomachs and they have to eat the cellulose twice. Dogs have one stomach and a straight-and-simple digestive tract.
NO grains; again, dogs can't digest cellulose, and the other ingredients are the primary cause of allergies and diabetes in dogs.
NO dairy; dogs are lactose intolerant: another digestive enzyme they don't have.
NO supplements other than a spoonful of deepsea fish body oil for the Omega-3 that corn-finished meat does not contain.My Alaskan Malamute has VERY oily droppings consistently for a week and a half?
supervision is the key. Keep the apples picked up and see if there's a difference in the poop.
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