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09/08/2009 at 09:35 am

I've had Chloe on Purina One Sensitive Systems for a while now, and it's been great (it's a low-bulk food free of dyes and artificial flavor) but now she's eating grass and has a snotty attitude (acting dopey and hanging out in her kennel).  She's been on this food for over a year her coat is shiny and she's otherwise healthy. . .but she's maybe just bored of it?

This tells me it's time for a new diet. . .I try to change it every once in a while and it seems to do the trick and pull her out of her funk.  This is an ongoing cycle :) 

So, I'm looking for advice on what brand to get this time before I go shell out the $$ for a bag of food!

Requirements:

low bulk and/or sensitive system

NO color, artificial flavor, etc. 

Not Iaims (that stuff really upsets her tummy for some reason!) or NutraBalance (she won't eat it). 

TIA!  :) :) :)

 

09/08/2009 at 10:05 am

I'm not sure if Science Diet meets your requirements, but that's what our 2 dogs and cat eat.  They all 3 LOVE the taste and all have such healthy coats.  I know my sister uses Natural Choice or something like that for her dog.  I think both of those brands are pretty expensive though...

09/08/2009 at 10:09 am

Oooh, I might have to try Science Diet - I don't think she's had that one.  I'm willing to put the money into it because even at $30-$40 a bag it's still cheaper to feed her than us :)

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09/08/2009 at 12:20 pm

i switched our dogs' food to dick van patten's natural balance (sweet potato and venison) dry food about seven or eight months ago and haven't changed since. my dogs love it and it helps with allergies (and by big dog's snoring!). it has no artificial preservatives, flavors, colors or bleached ingredients. it is pricey (like $40 to $50), but we get it from petco (when you buy ten within a year you get one free).

09/08/2009 at 07:02 pm

All my pets eat science diet and love it. Royal canin and eukanbua are also great brands and fit within your requirements. when you switch foods make sure you do it slowly so it doesn't upset her tummy, mix her old food half and half new food have for a few days then decrease the amount of old food until you have her on the new food it usually takes about a week to do this.

09/09/2009 at 12:12 pm

I feed my dog innova large breed puppy.  It is very expensive, and you have to buy it at pet stores, but he eats less of it than lower quality foods, so a big bag lasts us a few months.  The top 3 ingredients in it are meat: turkey, chicken, and chicken meal (not by-products, so no heads, feet, intestines, etc).

The dick van patten's natural balance looks pretty good.  Science diet isn't very good food.  It has virtually no meat in it.  The one I just looked at online had only 1 meat source in the whole ingredients list and it was like the 4th thing down.  Ingredients in dog food are listed just like ingredients in human food...in desending order by weight.  So science diet is mainly rice, corn, and corn meal.  The protein in it comes from "chicken by-product meal" which is everything in the chicken that humans don't consume (necks, feet, intestines, etc) that is dried and ground and "dried egg product".  Eukanbua is better than science diet, but not as good as the other two. 

Here is a link to the pet store I buy my food from.  The guy gets on his soap box about pet food a little bit, so you have to take him with a grain of salt sometimes, but there is some good info too.  www.luvhappytails.com

09/09/2009 at 12:22 pm

My yorkie eats Innova brand dog food (they have dry and wet food available). It's only available in pet nutrition stores (where they sell only food and stuff..no animals)...

09/10/2009 at 03:08 am

It's in the same manufacture family, but my family vet has recommended Pro Plan for as long as I can remember.  We had Nicko on the Purina One, and her skin was always really dry and was scratching her ears a lot.  Switched her back to the Pro Plan (so much for saving a few bucks) and no problems.  =)

09/10/2009 at 09:37 am

Innova sounds pretty good - thanks for the info on the Eukanuba. 

I've tried a few of the other high-end 'natural' foods and she just gets upset tummy, so we switched back to Purina One although I'd love to have her on a higher quality diet than that.

 

09/10/2009 at 01:25 pm

I second Natural Balance - I feed my fur kid this as a treat (the logs) and he absolutely loves them...and they're supposed to be healthier for them too :)

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