Ok I just re-read what I had posted, and I can see why you might have thought I was changing them around too much. But that wasn’t the case at all. I have always eased my animals into the new food. As for not liking variety, I was told that a dog and cat can’t get enough vitamins out of it’s diet if it eats the same thing all the time. Hence the reason why I was also giving them wet food. I also have heard that you shouldn’t give Chihuahuas any dry kibbles, because it expands too much in their tiny belly’s. But I have always fed them dry kibble, and have had no problem there. There is so much info out there saying you should or you shouldn’t feed them dry or wet or raw diets. I don’t know half the time what is right… LOL Now I have had them on California Natural for the past 7 months. Of those 7 months I had them on the Chicken and Rice for about 3 of those months. Because it did take time to transfer them over to this new food. And because I wanted to make certain it wasn’t anything else they had eaten that was causing the bad smell. Plus it takes time to wean them onto the new food. After I had transferred them fully onto the Lamb and Rice, I noticed a big change. After a couple of months, I tried them on wet food with their dried food. The smell came back with in a few days. So I stopped using it, and it went away. Missing Link is a powder you put on their food. You start out slow with that too, so it wont over whelm them. It has all the vitamins and minerals that a dog or cat needs. But for what ever reason, the cats and dogs didn’t care for it. So I stopped using that too. I think that they either don’t care for too much fiber, or protein. Whatever the case is, I can’t feed them anything that has those kinds of things in them. Or rather those that have an over abundance of that stuff in them. I think I am going to take my Chi’s back in and get some allergy test done on them. Just to see if that is what is the problem. They had a vet take a look at them, I was told they couldn’t see any problems with their kidneys or anything like that. So I would assume it has something to do with them being allergic to it. But then how is it that even my cats didn’t care for the Missing Link. I didn’t have a problem with them eating the chicken and rice diet, so I have left them on that.