Which First?
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With Chloe, I first tried a limited ingredient (but still grains) high quality food. I thought it was the chicken that was doing her in, not the grains (rice, no corn). It wasn't until I switched to grain free that she finally started showing improvement, and she's eating a wide variety of meat sources now.
I will probably never feed grain inclusive again by choice honestly. I've seen too much good in too many different dogs after being taken off grains.
I prefer properly balanced prey model raw, but if I could not do that I would be comfortable with THK's grain free formulations or S&C's. For kibble I am most comfortable with Champion and would use either Orijen or Acana (the 4 grain free varieties).
Cat food: I keep going back to Wellness Core. Which is all life stages.
I prefer properly balanced prey model raw, but if I could not do that I would be comfortable with THK's grain free formulations or S&C's. For kibble I am most comfortable with Champion and would use either Orijen or Acana (the 4 grain free varieties).
Cat food: I keep going back to Wellness Core. Which is all life stages.
When I/my mom first learned that Pedigree was crap we switched right to Before Grain, which is grain free.
Dally was put back on crappy food for a short time, before I got Quinn, 1 because of the price and 2 because our pet store never consistantly had BG - we kept having to buy a bunch of sample packs. Once we got Quinn though I convinced my mom to switch back to a good food we could feed both of them, and again we went right to grain free (Orijen and then later Acana - Orijen was too rich for Quinn).
Dally was put back on crappy food for a short time, before I got Quinn, 1 because of the price and 2 because our pet store never consistantly had BG - we kept having to buy a bunch of sample packs. Once we got Quinn though I convinced my mom to switch back to a good food we could feed both of them, and again we went right to grain free (Orijen and then later Acana - Orijen was too rich for Quinn).
I'd go grain free. Gavroche has done so well on TOTW (I went from Purina ONE straight to TOTW), and I even have Logan on it now and he's doing AMAZING. I was kind of worried about how Logan would react to it since his breeder mentioned her dogs don't usually do well on it, but my dad fed him Gavroche's food by accident once when I was gone and he had no problems, so I decided to try to switch him over, and there have been zero problems. Not even any soft stool - actually now when I go out in the yard and scoop poop I can't really tell who's is who's anymore.
I thought about TOTW, but it's made by Diamond. We've already tried two different foods made by Diamond with no luck. I'd like to branch out to a whole new source.
Well, I went with Innova Small Bites. We shall see. I go back Friday for more food, so I might put Major on NutriSource GF since he loved it so much and put Lizzie/Blaze on something else...
Well, I went with Innova Small Bites. We shall see. I go back Friday for more food, so I might put Major on NutriSource GF since he loved it so much and put Lizzie/Blaze on something else...
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I used to feed Innova and loved it, but now they got bought out by Proctor and Gamble:yikes:, so I'll never use it again. My dogs and cats do very well on Nature's Variety Instict (grain-free) in combination with the raw. My newest addition is a Yorkie puppy and she came from being on Pedegree
, I switched her right to Orijen but it made her stool pretty loose, the Instict works better for her. I did try NV Prairie after the Orijen but it bulked the stools up significantly, so no more grains.
I used to feed Innova and loved it, but now they got bought out by Proctor and Gamble:yikes:, so I'll never use it again. My dogs and cats do very well on Nature's Variety Instict (grain-free) in combination with the raw. My newest addition is a Yorkie puppy and she came from being on Pedegree
, I switched her right to Orijen but it made her stool pretty loose, the Instict works better for her. I did try NV Prairie after the Orijen but it bulked the stools up significantly, so no more grains.