[CBRHunter]

Ken, both of our dogs got nasty flats at the age of 6 months. It was terrible!! I called the breeder bc I couldn't take it. Friends stopped coming over, my tear ducts were empty....the cats hissed and ran and sometimes they were so loud you could hear them! She informed that Chessies are one of the breeds with the highest sensitivity to chicken protein which results in the stinks and eventually 'mud-butt'.

This was before I started grooming and working for a pet health food store and received wicked nutrition training and visited pet food manufacturing plants and started immersing myself into dog nutrition. Once a protein source disagrees with a dog it will continue to get worse unless you change the food.

Not to start a dog food war, but Nutro sucks. The senior formulas are not a meat meal first (and senior dogs/wolves don't turn 7 and go hmm I think I'll go eat more corn bc I'm old), and there is a lot of filler and you feed quite a bit compared to others. I switched our dogs to Eagle Pack Holistic Fish (all life stages dogs can eat it, just adjust the feeding quant.), fish is more digestible (so you feed less and less waste also), considered hypoallergenic, and great for their coats and skin and joints. For us the stink went away and the dogs did so much better on it, energy, waste, no stinking, coats were better, more muscle.

Before you make a trip into the vet and get suckered into vet digestive food (chalk full of ethoxiquin, and fillers for $110 bucks a bag), give a small bag of Eagle fish a try (mix the two foods together for about 10 days). Take care.