Advice for dog food for small dogs

[lv4dogs]

I'm pretty sure you won't find anything with a protien level lower than 16-18%. Even with that low of a level, it is usually found in vegatarian & weight management diets.

I've been looking non-stop at all different foods. lol I still have a few more to research though.

[gemini9961]

Hehe Sue, same time.

[gemini9961]

Nutro Ultra Weight Management is 16%

[caseysmom]

Yeah its the same as the CN, which is strange to me since the nutro has more ingredients...maybe I can supplement his diet with more veggies.

[lv4dogs]

Natural Balance has the lowest so far out of all the ones I have researched. 16.5% with the weight management diet (less than the vegatarian diet )

http://www.naturalbalanceinc.com/pro...RedCalDog.html

[bckrazy]

I was checking out the protein in Innova Evo, because their regular formula has very small bites, and it's 42%!!!

Solid Gold Holistique only has 18% protein and very good ingredients. It only contains fish as a meat protein, and I've fed it before with good results. It costs about $1.50/pound. Good luck with Bubba! I hope his kidneys get better soon

[caseysmom]

Thanks Erica....Banfield didn't even mention the kidney thing to me I saw it looking through his paperwork and they said it wasn't enough above the norm to worry about, so hopefully he won't have health problems when he gets older.

I am suprised about innovea 42%

[caseysmom]

Lv4dogs...do you know where you buy the natural balance? I don't remember seeing that at the feed stores, maybe petsmart??

[dab_20]

Well Molli is 5 pounds and I feed her Iams Small Kibble. There is regular and then the small kind. It takes her FOREVER to eat the regular kibble because it's too big and she likes to take her time to eat.

[caseysmom]

Sorry I won't feed Iams, heard too many bad things about it.

[dab_20]

I know. I was just saying that a few foods has small kibble for small dogs.

[lv4dogs]

Lv4dogs...do you know where you buy the natural balance? I don't remember seeing that at the feed stores, maybe petsmart??

I know petco does but I am not sure about petsmart.

They have a store locator on their site:
store locator

Some smaller feed stores will special order food for you... which may in turn make then carry it in their stores all the time.

[caseysmom]

Okay thanks, actually petco is 5 minutes from my house, much closer than petsmart...thanks...

[caseysmom]

three muskateers, I won't feed IAMS, second ingredient is corn, I want a good quality food.

[dab_20]

Timberwolf is a very good brand, but extremely hard to find and expensive. IAMS is great, I feed it to my cat and before when I fed her some other brand, she had knots in her hair and furballs, so we tried changing her food, and IAMS softened her hair she hasn't had a furball ever since we switched her food. So I higly suggest IAMS.

EDIT: Never give Ol' Roy!

I agree it does really well for my dogs. Sammy was always fed ol' roy until we bought him. Then we switched his food because he was having diareah ALL the time.

casey'smom...

We all have our opinions and it's ok you don't want to feed the food. We were just suggesting it. Good Luck on finding a good brand.