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Toilet Talk: Update on Dexter and the Pepper Rings

Friday we fed Dexter pepper rings, you can see that entry below if you missed it. He really liked them, putting down four before we decided we should probably slow down in case it causes stomach aches. That morning he had done his business and I checked his droppings to make sure nothing was weird, unsurprisingly he was fine so the woman and I went out to run some errands.

When we got him I took him out on his regular schedule, and I swear I nearly missed it but there was a thin yellow/green ring in his poop. Upon further inspection it turns out he pooped out one of the Banana Peppers whole. I got back in and did a little research, it turns out dog’s digestive systems struggle to process fibers and plants and the such.

You and I suffer from the same problem, I’m sure you’re accustomed to the old corn in the poop? Same concept, our digestive tracts are not capable of highly fibrous outer coating of a corn kernel and it leaves us in tact. The same thing happens with tomato as well, it’s not a noticeable because of the color but certain parts of the tomato are too fibrous for us to process and out it comes whole.

The worst food to experience this with is … peanuts. Not this doesn’t always happen, but peanuts can sometimes be too fibrous to digest and come out in little jagged pieces implanted in your poop. It’s the worst feeling in the world.