Yoghurt is quite a good additive to a dogs diet as it introduces good bacteria to a dog's stomach
It does help with the dreaded Boxer gas
The following about Yoghurt (edited) is from "Give Your Dog a Bone":
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Plain Yoghurt with the living culture present is an excellent food for dogs. This is because it is live. Basically it is milk that has had the milk sugar in it converted to lactic acid by a bacterial culture. It is the presence of this bacterial culture that gives yoghurt some of its most important health giving properties for your dog.
Yoghurt is an excellent source of calcium, high class protein, vitamins including the B vitamins and vitamin A (no vitamin C), enzymes and of course energy as carbohydrates, protein and fat.
The bacteria present in yoghurt are friendly bacteria. They live happily in the bowel flora. In this role it is assumed they will produce more of their probiotics, enzymes (including vitamin K) etc., which will have the effect of keeping the bowel itself healthy on a local level, and also, many of their health giving products will be absorbed into the rest of the body.
If your dog has to take antibiotics, feed it yoghurt. The yoghurt protects against the killing effect that antibiotics have on the normal bowel bacteria. This is particularly useful if antibiotics cause your dog to develop diarrhoea.
One more thing... you do not have to feed your dog the unhealthy sugar filled variety. Use natural yoghurt.
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Apart from all the above, most dogs love the taste of yoghurt
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Sharon
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