What are we feeding our dogs these days?

I was just re-reading this whole message thread and it has been very informative. Sometimes, emails and message boards are tough because the tone we "read" might be far from what the author intended it to be. I know I have reacted to posts directed at me, here and on other boards, negatively, and allowed my feelings to be hurt. Perhaps I jumped to conclusions. In fact, I re-read something I wrote on another topic yesterday, and decided to delete it (better late than never, I guess :o ). I had spurted out my dismay in haste and when I saw it again, I thought "OH, LOGAN, that sounds terrible!". I'm glad you guys got it all straightened out. :)

As for the food subject, we have achieved what we wanted to with Honey and Lilly's diet, using the Iams Weight Control. My plan was to keep them on it for maintenance, and work on getting those last few pounds off of Lilly. Honey has other plans. She refuses to eat it now. I've noticed her leaving it in the bowl and finally eating it as a last resort in recent weeks. I think it is time to start introducing them to something else, but carefully this time. My friend, who also has a Golden Retriever, is using California Natural with great success. Abbey has had terrible skin problems, constantly itching, pulling out her hair, has been on prednisone off and on for two years, but never got better. One month ago, they changed to this food. Miraculously, no more itching and Kim says that her coat is more beautiful than it has ever been. I'm going to do some more research and then hopefully find the right thing for them. I'll keep you posted!

Logan

Most food brands have this ingridient that makes pet allergic to it and start scratching and all. I think if eukanuba is really bad for our pets then why do they sell it?

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Originally posted by mary_jsn
Most food brands have this ingridient that makes pet allergic to it and start scratching and all. I think if eukanuba is really bad for our pets then why do they sell it?

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Mary, it's fine that you feed your dogs what you feed them, and that goes for everyone. I think this post got a bit heated, but most everyone seems to be level headed about it. It was nice of Candy to appologize, even though I honestly don't think she meant to hurt feelings. I am not trying to get the debate going again, but Hostess cupcakes and cigerettes and potato chips and soda pop and donouts and candy corn and McDonalds, and all the other unhealthy foods/stimulants that are being sold DAILY, are not at all good for humans but yet they still sell that stuff SO MUCH! Just because one food is not healthy, does not mean the manufacturer will stop selling it. Food sells because people buy, regardless of it's health benefits. If the world suddenly converted to a fully healthy diet, that junk would not sell. That's the only way unhealthy foods will stop selling...if people stop buying!

I was at Walmart yesterday and I happen to browse their pet department and saw a huge bag (it looked to be 50 pounds) of the cheapest dog food I have ever seen. It was less then $10.00 for all that food and the ingredients were not good at all, but at least that shopper was buying food instead of letting his dog starve. Although it's hard to see such bad foods out on the market, they are far better then NO food. The guy buying that bulk, no-name brand of dog food loved his dog enough to make a trip to the store to buy it a great big bag of food.

Ok, I'll shut up now :) You know what I mean.

Ok, thanks. I guess you are right. But I still can't believe that Iams thing even though my vet recommended it to me. :confused:

Many people recommend Iams, Mary. Its just an individual choice...one that until recently, my dogs did fine with. Honey is just being finnicky, so as usual, I'm going to work hard to make her happy and find something else! :p

Leika is picky too about her food. She's starting to eat less. It worries me even though I wouldn't mind that she actually comes back to her normal weight, 3kg. She's weighting at the moment 4kg. The worse thing is that I leave her all day in the backyard and let her in in the night 'cause the nights are really cold even though we are in summer. Well the thing is that if she doesn't eat her food it get's full of ants and I have to take the plate away and throw out as many ants as I can. If this keeps I'm going to switch to the 15 minutes thingy.

I use Eukanuba adult maintence for both dogs although I'm in the process of switching Smudgers over to weight control formula because as I was told by both my vet and my agility instructor, he needs to lose some weight...funny thing about that the instructor was on my case worse then the vet was...then again she sees him every week or so and unlike the vet she knows where I live (can you guess what one I'm more scared of?)

Crikit ^_^ \/

Smudgers, what a cute name Crikit!

actually his name is Smudge but I call him Smudgers as well as many other things which tend to get a little embarassing, then again the ones for Winter girl are much worse:)

I tried different foods to see which one the little Princess likes. We settled on Pro Plan Lamb and Rice. Whew!

I am late on this subject, and I do not intend to get it all fired up again, but wanted to give my 2 cents worth.
I totally agree with Leslie, that was beautifully said. I shudder when I see people buying Ol' Roy, or Come and Get it or Kibbles and Bits type foods but they are not letting them starve and love them enough to provide them with food and that is just as important. Not everyone can afford to buy the cadillac of pet foods like some of us can. But then again not everyone treats their dogs and cats like we do either!
I have tried many types of foods, finally settling of Royal Canin Holistic blend. Shaianne had sensitive bowels and stomach. We went thru gastritis and cholitis. The gastritis was worse I think b/c she vomited at least once or twice a day. Sometimes I would wake up in the morning and and find 4 piles of vomit on the floor. The vet said if we didn't get her cleared up we might have to put her on perscription food and we didn't want to do that. I finally found the holistic blend and we had great results, she stopped vomiting completely until about a month before she died, when I bought another kind of food and mixed in it with the R.C.
I have been trying to keep Keegan only on dry food, with occasional bil-jac (frozen) mixed in. Not often tho, I don't want her to get used to eating it with other things in it. Altho she does enjoy it when I mix green beans or chicken/beef broth in with it occasionally.

Incidently, I feed Kylie the R.C foods also. I tried switching her and she started vomiting also, so I am switching her back to the R.C. They came out with a new formula for indoor cats that is supposed to reduce litter box odors!
She really like the R.C food

Hello, i'm new to this.....but well here goes.....i was feeding Ghost Iams and found she had lots of gas.....so we are trying Hill's Science Diet....I've been trying to find something around here that would be good for her nutrionally.....They sell Nutro and Hill's but i'm not sure about these others that are listed.....Ghost is a Siberian Husky.....any suggestions are welcome.
Thanks,
Serra'sGhost