{"id":7154,"date":"2022-04-22T16:23:46","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T20:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/?p=7154"},"modified":"2025-09-26T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:12:58","slug":"dog-poop-quality-chart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/dog-poop-quality-chart\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog Poop Quality Chart"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s not the cutest part of living with a dog, but dealing with poop daily is a good opportunity to discover information about your pup’s health. Most dog owners are familiar with a sudden change in consistency (such as a bout of diarrhea), but what about when poop suddenly turns an unusual color or changes in size or shape?<\/p>

It helps to have an idea of what’s “normal.” As a rule, if your dog’s stools are firm, log-shaped, easy to scoop, and a chocolate-brown color, those are all good signs and point to a healthy digestive tract. These “High-Quality Poops” are one of the hallmarks of a fresh diet.<\/p>

You can read more about decoding your dog’s poop here<\/a>. But for a handy visual guide to identifying the different kinds of poop and understanding what they mean, consult our stool quality charts below. And if diarrhea or any other “Low-Quality Poops” stick around for more than a day or so, be sure to speak to your vet.<\/p>

Stool Quality Chart<\/h4>

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Stool Color Chart<\/h4>

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A handy visual guide to what different colors, consistencies, and volumes of dog poop mean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7160,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-wellness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14074,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7154\/revisions\/14074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefarmersdog.com\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}