Short Stuff: White Dog Poop | STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW

[Music]. hey and welcome to the shortstop Josh. Chuck Jerry Dave let's go all right this. is our episode on dog peep that's right. you can't say poop dog poop white dog. poop specifically white dog poop the. same white dog poop that Sarah Silverman. sang about same white dog poop that. shows up in Step Brothers which is. probably the only reason why people who. were born after the late 80s are aware.

that white dog poop even ever existed I. don't know the Sarah silverr bit and. I've seen Step Brothers a bunch and I. don't remember the white dog poop in. that one those neighborhood bullies the. kids they make will frell touch his. tongue to the white dog poop oh yeah. yeah yeah yeah uh and you know what. until you sent this I didn't notice that. I don't notice white dog poop oh really. I definitely did it was a main stay. while we were growing up like it was a. thing when you were walking down the.

sidewalk in your neighborhood and you. you would just look to your left in. somebody's yard there were piles of. white dog poop and you do not see that. these days I never thought about it. until you sent this and there is a. reason why and I thought the reason was. going to be as simple as people pick up. their dog poop more than they did in the. 80s that is absolutely wrong yeah it's. calcium right yeah the the diet of dogs. changed dramatically in the late 80s. early 90s and the thing that was giving.

these dogs white dog poop or making dogs. poop white was an overabundance of. calcium that was in sand or dog food at. the time yeah it dog food was pretty bad. back then there's still tons of bad dog. food and Pet Food in general but there's. lots of really good stuff now back then. it was very much loaded with bone. meal uh and some meat but basically it's. that bone meal lots of calcium and bones. and you know know calcium is good to.

dogs you know a little bit of calcium is. fine but if you have too much of it you. can't absorb it it comes out in your. poop and it doesn't come out white but. it dries up in the Sun and once the. water is removed it turn that chalky. white yeah I I think IFL science. compared it to when humans take um like. vitamins and we don't absorb all of it. it just comes out in our PE same thing. with calcium and dogs diets like after. they have as much as they need they just.

pass it in their poop and then also one. of the other problems with that dog food. in the 60s 7s and 80s is that the way. that the the bones were rendered made it. even harder to absorb so a lot of that. calcium they might not have even been. getting enough calcium from the food. they just weren't absorbing it they were. passing it so right if the poop wasn't. coming out white which I can attest I. had a dog in the 80s mhm um what was. your dog's name well there were a few. but Jingle Bells JB was a great one God.

JB was such a good dog we brought her. home and put her in the fence for the. first time we went to the shelter and. brought her home and um she just looked. at us and jumped right over the fence. and we're like oh this one's going to be. trouble she was but she was a great dog. and then the other one was LL LL Bean. those are the two dogs I had in the 80s. that's great that's a very 80s dog name. to Lan yeah she was so sweet so I'll. just tell you one anecdote real quick LL. was a I guess kind of a Shepherd mix.

Doberman shepherd mix kind of super. sweet super sad eyes just the sweetest. dog she just looked like she'd seen too. much in life even though I know for a. fact she hadn't she just had kind of the. old soul thing going on and she was. roommates uh with a dog named Hershey. little schneer and Hershey would fall. into the pool every once in a while and. LL who was a great swimmer would go in. and swim over to Hershey and push her.

nudge her toward the steps so they could. both get out I saw it more than once. that's how good a dog L was well very. quickly then I as a child had the the. big two were Huggy Bear and bow nice uh. Huggy Bear was a German Shepherd that. had floppy ears and Bo was a basset. hound H who would step on its ears they. were so long and we uh you know talked. about it before but we kept our dogs. outside my parents did that we had a big. probably quarter acre dog fcon dog pin.

with a very large dog house uh built on. it and when Huggy Bear died uh B died. not long after because of a broken heart. we think and one day my parents came. home and found me laying in their. dogghouse crying a that's sweet how old. were you H I don't remember probably. like N9 or 10 man that is sweet chuck. would be a guess but anyway you were. talking uh before we digressed about.

your dogs in the 80s oh yeah so we both. had dogs in the 80s and we could attest. that they're poop didn't come out white. it magically became White As Time wore. on that's right and we could stop here. with some heartwarming stories and the. answer to that question but because we. do what we do we're going to talk more. about dog food and dog poop right after. [Music]. this.

[Music]. know all right uh we promised to talk. more about dog food uh it used to be uh. not as good like we said full of bone. meal and stuff like that but after World. War II there was a better economy and. many more dogs became household pets and. over time uh and of course it's really. exploded in the past like 15 to 20 years.

but even back then people realized. manufacturers realized that there was a. lot of money to be made in the pet. industry and dog foods started very. slowly to become a little bit better and. then got really really good in the past. 15 years well they they were they got. worse before they got better for sure. because when they figured out that they. could mass-produce this stuff and sell. it um like Gang Busters they were like. well what's the cheapest stuff we can. put in here that won't actually kill the.

dogs most likely and so they started. putting well the horse was actually. earlier in the century before World War. II and then everybody's like this is. just wrong somehow we don't can't put. our finger on it but we are not going to. feed our dogs horse meat anymore yeah. after World War II they that's when they. started extruding stuff which apparently. um extracts a lot of vitamins and. nutrients from food um they started. adding a lot of fillers that are super. cheap and the the food we were feeding. our dogs was just terrible and they came.

loaded with calcium that's right uh and. like I said the food got better and. better over the years uh especially more. recently and uh these days there's a lot. of debate on like what you should be. feeding your pets um everything kind of. points to like real food like if you're. if you're the best pet owner in the. world you're you're cooking your dog. food and vegetables and stuff like that. right yeah for sure Yumi cooks that for. for Mo all the time she there's also. some pretty good stuff you can order too.

yeah oh yeah um but yeah it's like I. think that's probably dogs have the. healthiest diet as a group now in their. entire history with humans yeah. absolutely dogs love veggies I feed my. dogs uh table scrap veggies all the time. and all of my dogs even before this crew. have Lov vegetables um I think they just. like any kind of human food I rarely see. them turn their little noses up at. anything yeah for sure like Mama will.

eat stuff I won't eat like. peas oh I love peas so um you said that. dog food got better and better um the. thing is is the reason why white dog. poop suddenly disappeared is because it. suddenly got better around the late 80s. and 90s like people started being like. this is not stop selling us this stuff. it's not good for our dogs and there was. a quick change in the industry and that. led to lower amounts of calcium which. led to low like lower amounts of white.

dog food white dog poop yeah until it. essentially just went away yeah uh they. got more fiber in their diet now uh and. just you know more nutrient and vitamin. Rich dog food uh I I I'm now noticing I. guess that I think about it but I. honestly never really thought about it. until yesterday when I started reading. up on this stuff that I guess you really. don't see as much white dog poop anymore. and there's also like it's still not. done like we're dogs definitely eat.

better than ever but we're still like. well wait a minute can they exist on a. vegan diet don't know um is dry dog food. better than wet apparently wet dog food. has eight times the greenhouse gas. emissions of dry dog food but if you ask. the dog they're like no we want we want. wet yeah um there's so the jury is still. out but it is clear that dog food is. more is healthier than it ever has been. in the history of dog food yeah we a few. back when we had Lucy before she left us.

uh she had autoimmune issues oh uh Lucy. and Buckley did and so grainfree diet uh. that's when we started sort of going. grain-free back then and we kind of kept. on that train through this new batch. yeah I've seen grain can be kind of hard. on dogs sometimes for it's not uncommon. from what I saw too and then fats too um. depending on the kind of fat it can lead. to pancreatitis pretty quickly in dogs.

or even gastritis and you don't want. either of those because once they start. they can become chronic and that's sad. for the dog because they have to eat the. most boring bland diet imaginable should. we finish up on what dog poop should. look like let's and now if your dog is. healthy generally looks like because of. the lack of uh calcium yeah if you see. white poop now um and it's speckled. white that's probably worms and you want. to do something about that yeah if you. and if you see the old School white poop. that means you know someone's living 70s.

style someone's got a big stash of uh oh. I'm not going to name check any Brands. but you know what we fed people in the. 80s or what we fed dogs in the 80s they. also raw diets um often contain groundup. bones and that can cause the old school. white dog poop too yeah so normal dog. poop uh is is a tube of poop uh it. should be firm uh and it should be like. a light light chocolatey Brown yeah. that's that's thanks to our friends at. all dogs poop the dog waste cleaning.

service yeah which is amazing uh what. should it not look like well if it's. orange uh it means that your dog is not. digesting it slowly enough it's just. kind of passing through largely. undigested or too undigested and it'll. come out orange and you want to look. into that what if it's yellow if it's. yellow that means it probably has some. mucus in it which means that your dog is. not tolerating its food very well. usually the reason why is because you.

just switched their diet radically and. all of a sudden all right if it's green. uh you know what that means that means. your dog's out there eating grass uh. probably because it has a little tum tum. problem I think that's usually when dogs. mow on weeds and grass uh but that can. come out in the poop as grass what about. gray doesn't change much gray is no good. that means you're uh you got too much. fat in the diet yeah and again that can. lead to. pancreatitis and finally red yeah. especially especially if there's red. streaks that means your your dog has.

blood in its stool which means you. should pick them up and take them to the. vet right then that's right but also. don't discount black tar stool a lot of. people don't realize that that means. there's blood they're bleeding. internally as well it's just higher up. in the digestive tract so it gets. Incorporated in the poop earlier and. more completely than something like the. blood that's red streaky that means it's. happening in the lower digestive tract. yeah I've been a wash in dog poop lately.

because very sadly our uh 14-year-old. Charlie is becoming a little bit. incontinent a and uh she's she's doing. great but she's got very stiff little. Peg Leg back legs and she's starting to. to just poop when the poop is there. instead of saying like I can make it to. the door and ask to be let out a Char. yeah it's no fun but uh you don't put a. dog down because you don't like cleaning.

up their poop no you just yell at them. so you just uh we're cleaning up a lot. of dog. beep lately did you say dog beep yeah. I'm sorry about that that's all right. it's no fun but especially when you wake. up in the middle of the night and it's. like that the smell wakes you up yeah. that's not good and it's just uh it's. it's aging as no fun aging animals are. it's no fun but we're in the middle of. it what are you going to do just yell. the dog no stop saying that um we want.

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