dog food

[Barry]

I give my 6 year old doxie a certain kind of dog food and she eats "okay" but my grandaughter brought her doxie over and had a different kind of food and my doxie ate it right up.  Do any of you ever switch dog food occasionally so your doxie will eat better?    I wonder if they ever get burned out of certain foods like us humans.  Oh though I will never get burned out on pizza LOL

[papbouv]

When i was feeding Taste of the Wild which is a grain free food the had a fish,buffalo, fowl , came out with a lamb  would switch around though out those food.Never had any problem but the dogs really did not care for the fowl one just took it back to the store and traded for a different flavor.Being summer time and 105* even with them in the house almost 24-7 neither really want to eat much of anything,Of course not getting much exercise just mainly laying around.

[Brekkesmom]

Usually if you switch dry foods, you do 75% present food with 25% new for a few days to a week, then 50%/50% for a similar time, and then 25%/75% new for the same time frame, and then new food 100%, unless the formulation is the same and only the flavors are different.  I use Solid Gold Hund'n'Flokken dry food, and Merrick's canned food - a heaping teaspoon on top of kibble, and I use the different flavors in that - because I like the variety.  My four like Grammy's Pot Pie (thanks, Merion - hadn't tried that one since you sent one in the last treat box), Thanksgiving Dinner, Smothered Comfort, Turducken, and Honolulu Luau the best, and I do switch to the Solid Gold canned food in between the Merrick's.

[JetEd73]

Use Brekke's advice for switching foods.

Eating more food doesn't not mean that your dog is eating better. Most of the stuuf you get at the grocery store is like junk food for dogs. A good rule of thumb for dog food is if the ingreient list reads like your grocery shopping list then its probably one of the better foods. If the in gredient list reads like a chemical formula its o one of the cruddy foods


I've had good results with Blue Buffalo, taste of the wild, EVO, Wellness super mix 5

I rotate foods every 2-3 months using Brekkes advice. The foods may be more expensive however they are little dogs and they don't eat much.  It costs me $12 a week to feed 4 dogs. That's really not expensive to feed them well

[Brekkesmom]

And remember you never want corn in the ingredients!  It is just a filler, and it can get trapped in their intestines, as if they have diverticulitis.

[Guinness]

All right - it's confession time for Auntie Keren:

Whenever I find cheaper dog food I buy it. It's usually Sam's Club brand kibble. Last week, Purina had a special on a 55 pound bag, which made it cheaper. I bought it. I fed it. They ate it. Nobody even blinked.

In 36 years of dog owning I have never once gradually introduced new dog food. I serve it. They eat it. I'm happy. They're happy.

Remember, these are the same animals who will gladly scarf down a two-week-old dead squirrel carcass.  I'm jus' sayin' . . .

Auntie Keren :thumb: