One of my Mini pins is probably the most finicky eater ever. We've tried several different foods, and he was eating Canidae for quite awhile, but lately he's decided that he'd rather be skin and bones than to continue it. We went to the store a few weeks back and got several samples of different foods, and one that he reacted to like he's never reacted to food before, was Instinct Chicken. We ended up buying a 5 lb bag of it, and he's been doing great eating it ever since. Now, today, I had one of my other dogs in for a routine checkup, and the vet commented on how good he looks finally (he was a premature Min Pin and has never caught up,) which got us on the subject of food, since we recently switched him from Canidae to Solid Gold Just a Wee Bit. He never really took to the Canidae, but we think he was just having too much trouble chewing it up, which is a problem he absolutely doesn't have with the Wee Bits. I then mentioned that we're feeding Apollo the Instinct, and the vet seemed rather concerned about the 42% protien in it as far as future kidney damage and such.
This vet is NOT one of the vets that recommends Science Diet or Iams, the first time we saw him and he asked what we fed, and we said Canidae, he seemed very pleased with our choice, and he recommended trying Innova and Solid Gold for Apollo, so I do tend to listen to his advice on food.
Does anyone know where I can find more info regarding the dangers or myths about high protien food? Also, this may be a dumb question, but could I mix the Instinct with another lower protein food source (possibly raw??) to help average things out? I love the fact that he's eating well finally, and I love seeing a little meat on his bones, but I'm not really willing to trade that for health problems down the road. I also really don't have any problems with feeding him whatever he needs, since as it is, two of my Min Pins, and my Rottie still get the Canidae since they do really well on it, and my little guy gets the Solid Gold, so I'm not worried about the hassle of having more foods around. Oh, and we did try the Nature's Variety Prairie chicken, thinking he might eat it since it's the same company, but he turned his nose right up to it.
Thanks in advance for any help.
This vet is NOT one of the vets that recommends Science Diet or Iams, the first time we saw him and he asked what we fed, and we said Canidae, he seemed very pleased with our choice, and he recommended trying Innova and Solid Gold for Apollo, so I do tend to listen to his advice on food.
Does anyone know where I can find more info regarding the dangers or myths about high protien food? Also, this may be a dumb question, but could I mix the Instinct with another lower protein food source (possibly raw??) to help average things out? I love the fact that he's eating well finally, and I love seeing a little meat on his bones, but I'm not really willing to trade that for health problems down the road. I also really don't have any problems with feeding him whatever he needs, since as it is, two of my Min Pins, and my Rottie still get the Canidae since they do really well on it, and my little guy gets the Solid Gold, so I'm not worried about the hassle of having more foods around. Oh, and we did try the Nature's Variety Prairie chicken, thinking he might eat it since it's the same company, but he turned his nose right up to it.
Thanks in advance for any help.
