Calliesmom
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I have purchased Solid Gold at PetCO and 2 of the pet stores near me sell Wellness. I recommend visiting their websites- they have store locators that will tell you the closest place that you can get their products. 
Puppy food + issues
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I have purchased Solid Gold at PetCO and 2 of the pet stores near me sell Wellness. I recommend visiting their websites- they have store locators that will tell you the closest place that you can get their products.
Oooh! You are lucky! The best that the PetSmart and PetCo in my area carry are Royal Canin and Nutro Ultra. I didn't realize other PetCo outlets carry some better brands. Definitely check the one in your area then! Bonus!
BarbV
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Doing the research is great! But go to more than one website as you will get conflicting advice. One will say a food is great, another will say to stay away. So check out a bunch of sites and see what the popular consensus is and why. It's kinda like 9 out of 10 dentists recommend Crest! You don't know why but it seems to be working.
I think it really comes down to one factor: Is your pup thriving on the diet or not?
- Is the coat healthy?
- Are the stools firm?
- Does the pup have energy to burn?
- Does the pup like the food? (someone mentioned her 11 week old was picking at the food. I was worried about Bacca for the same reason at about exactly the same age. I would sit beside him to encourage him to eat, like a mom trying to get her son to eat his broccolli). Silly me! A few weeks later, and this boy scarfs his food in 3 minutes flat!
I think we can get too far caught up in the proportion of this to that. It frankly makes my eyes spin backwards in my head. I think I spent more time researching my puppy's food then my own kid's Pablum when they were babies!
I think it really comes down to one factor: Is your pup thriving on the diet or not?
- Is the coat healthy?
- Are the stools firm?
- Does the pup have energy to burn?
- Does the pup like the food? (someone mentioned her 11 week old was picking at the food. I was worried about Bacca for the same reason at about exactly the same age. I would sit beside him to encourage him to eat, like a mom trying to get her son to eat his broccolli). Silly me! A few weeks later, and this boy scarfs his food in 3 minutes flat!
I think we can get too far caught up in the proportion of this to that. It frankly makes my eyes spin backwards in my head. I think I spent more time researching my puppy's food then my own kid's Pablum when they were babies!
Calliesmom
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saw a PetCo commercial last night where they advertised that they carry Wellness
dog food
I agree with BarbV nutrition is a very very complex subject and while we all want good ingredients in our pets food (as we do in our food) what is good vs bad is sometime hard to tell. To make things more complex a lot of what your read is antedotal and not well supported by research. Actually nutrition research is extremely hard to do with very high costs and it take years for some nutritional problems to manifest themselves. Many small dog food manufacturers have not and can not financially do these kinds of studies. Some say no corn, no grains but why, bulk may be good- it helps move things through the digestive system so is that bad just because the volume of feces is higher??? It is hard to say. And blanket statements about who sells what makes the food they sell bad is not really helpful. We all know that putting diseased animals in food is bad period. But who does that- do we really know?? I don't. As BarbV said you need to visit lots of web sites and in the end make a lot of your own judgements, read vet school research papers on nutrition if you can and ask your vet-they are the best source of factual information many of us have. If a food is cheap it may not be all that good or may it is? It is really hard to tell. I use Innova but I am just guessing that it is good-I think it is but?- our dogs seem to do well and I just hope we are doing them justice. I wish the information on nutrition were a little more clear but we should all be cautious in evaluating claims for this food or that and then do the best we can to keep the nutrition of our furbuddies as good as we can make it.
Doing the research is great! But go to more than one website as you will get conflicting advice. One will say a food is great, another will say to stay away. So check out a bunch of sites and see what the popular consensus is and why. It's kinda like 9 out of 10 dentists recommend Crest! You don't know why but it seems to be working.
I agree with BarbV nutrition is a very very complex subject and while we all want good ingredients in our pets food (as we do in our food) what is good vs bad is sometime hard to tell. To make things more complex a lot of what your read is antedotal and not well supported by research. Actually nutrition research is extremely hard to do with very high costs and it take years for some nutritional problems to manifest themselves. Many small dog food manufacturers have not and can not financially do these kinds of studies. Some say no corn, no grains but why, bulk may be good- it helps move things through the digestive system so is that bad just because the volume of feces is higher??? It is hard to say. And blanket statements about who sells what makes the food they sell bad is not really helpful. We all know that putting diseased animals in food is bad period. But who does that- do we really know?? I don't. As BarbV said you need to visit lots of web sites and in the end make a lot of your own judgements, read vet school research papers on nutrition if you can and ask your vet-they are the best source of factual information many of us have. If a food is cheap it may not be all that good or may it is? It is really hard to tell. I use Innova but I am just guessing that it is good-I think it is but?- our dogs seem to do well and I just hope we are doing them justice. I wish the information on nutrition were a little more clear but we should all be cautious in evaluating claims for this food or that and then do the best we can to keep the nutrition of our furbuddies as good as we can make it.
Paralysis of analysis with dog food
We have a 14 week old Sheltie puppy, have had her since she was 8 weeks old got her from a VERY reputable breeder. Our breeder had her on Purina Pro Plan puppy dry/canned with a little Kefir plain yogurt mixed in. She NEVER would eat the dry for me, she would root around for the canned. I made the mistake of giving in to her and switched to Castor & Pollux Organix for Puppies, but she did OKAY on it. I didn't read a whole lot on the Castor Pollux, so I have been trying to sloooowly wean her onto Innova. I keep trying to feed her 3x a day as well. Lately on occassion in the early morning she dry heaves a little or vomits a little bile!! This is happens before she eats and she doesnt seem very hungry in the AM either. I assumed perhaps she has "bile build up" so I'll give her a snack before she goes to bed. I think it will work but I didnt give her a snack last night as she fell sound asleep at 8:30 and did the dry heave/ bile thing this AM.
Is this a food issue, feeding time issue, type of food issue, my issue???
thank you in advance for any suggestions!!
We have a 14 week old Sheltie puppy, have had her since she was 8 weeks old got her from a VERY reputable breeder. Our breeder had her on Purina Pro Plan puppy dry/canned with a little Kefir plain yogurt mixed in. She NEVER would eat the dry for me, she would root around for the canned. I made the mistake of giving in to her and switched to Castor & Pollux Organix for Puppies, but she did OKAY on it. I didn't read a whole lot on the Castor Pollux, so I have been trying to sloooowly wean her onto Innova. I keep trying to feed her 3x a day as well. Lately on occassion in the early morning she dry heaves a little or vomits a little bile!! This is happens before she eats and she doesnt seem very hungry in the AM either. I assumed perhaps she has "bile build up" so I'll give her a snack before she goes to bed. I think it will work but I didnt give her a snack last night as she fell sound asleep at 8:30 and did the dry heave/ bile thing this AM.
Is this a food issue, feeding time issue, type of food issue, my issue???
thank you in advance for any suggestions!!
I have read somewheres that this could be a matter of her being so hungrey,that some dogs have been known to have this issue.Just something I read once.
It has happened to me even.Kinda like a reflux problem,but I have hunger pains so,I could almost be sick. I'm not sure about dogs, but I'm sure someone here has seen this with thier babes and could enlighten you more than I.
It has happened to me even.Kinda like a reflux problem,but I have hunger pains so,I could almost be sick. I'm not sure about dogs, but I'm sure someone here has seen this with thier babes and could enlighten you more than I.