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01-22-2008, 09:49 AM | #1 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: way down South
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| Food change and now stinks!! Hey YTers, I had been cooking for Furgie but she was bored with it so I went with bagged dry food my hubby is feeding Rufus. She loves it and eats it up. I was soooooo she hardly ate bagged foods I bought before. It is called Enhanced 27-17 Endurance/Puppy or something like that he bought at the feed store. Anyways Furgie got this real strong Yorkie smell...you all know that smell that only belongs to the yorkie. Well it's real strong!! She absolutely reeks, it's that strong. So my question is, is this smell because of the food she is eating or is it maybe she is just going through something else...like maybe hormones, she is 5 months old now. She is also teething and has baaaaaad fishy breath. ewwwwww Also today we are starting back on the chicken and rice I cook for her. Testing to see if this will improve this odor. |
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01-22-2008, 09:54 AM | #2 |
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| sorry...dont know what the "strong yorkie smell" is....
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01-22-2008, 09:59 AM | #3 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Well, not sure what's going on here. I mean, the skin IS an elimination organ - so I suppose if she's having a strong reaction to the food, there could be some skin issues. What are the ingredients in the food? I don't know what you mean by a "yorkie smell", what is that? I know what infected ears smell like, and what teething-breath smells like....but not a smell specific to yorkies. Bad breath when teething, btw, is quite normal.
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01-22-2008, 10:02 AM | #4 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Btw, if you do go back to chicken and rice - there is a lot of supplementation you have to add as well. Do you need help for that?
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01-22-2008, 10:03 AM | #5 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member | Sorry, not sure what you are talking about. Nolee at one time had a very bad urine smell. To him to the vet twice, could not find anything. Had to be something he was eating outside. Thank goodness it passed. Hopefully this will too!!!
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01-22-2008, 10:20 AM | #6 |
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| No. it is not a urine smell at all. It is a doggie oder all of it's own. And I have smelled this before on Yorkies so maybe it is bad diets that make this odor. I don't mean to sound ugly at all. But is an odor I have only smelled on Yorkies...But just know that I do have a supper strong sniffer. Getting on to the home cooked diets...Yes I would like some help with that. What supplements do you all add to the home cooked diets? I saw on here where they were feed trip by a Dr that was real expensive. Would that be the same stuff you can buy in a can at the grocer? |
01-22-2008, 10:24 AM | #7 |
Luvs Lulu Donating Member | My guess is that the food is not a great food and that is why now that your changing from home cooking you smell a difference. I personally have had a couple yorkies and am around a few others and never noticed a pronounced yorkie smell. Her breath will be smelly at this age because of the teething. Soon the baby teeth will start dropping and the adult teeth will be coming in. Look for a more healthy food. I never heard of that food that your feeding but I am sure that there are tons out there that I never heard of. Good luck.
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01-22-2008, 10:53 AM | #8 |
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| here is the link to the site So anyone? what supplements do I need to use?...as I am not going to use this food anymore. I think maybe here in the South we have trusted our vets and have used Science diet too long...and maybe that is why I have smelled this same odor on yorkies. As just about every breeder her is pushing the Science Diet. OH and my schnauzer too were on this diet and they never had this odor. |
01-22-2008, 11:34 AM | #9 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | The ingredients: Chicken By-Product Meal, Brewers Rice, Ground Corn, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, a natural source of Vitamin E), Beet Pulp, Fish Meal, Flax, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Liver Digest, Choline Chloride, Lecithin, Garlic, Vitamin E Supplement, Zinc Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Copper Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Biotin, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Copper Oxide, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (a source of Vitamin K activity), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite Well well, me thinks you have the answer! The ingredients I bolded are concerns (and some others too). If you EVER see Menadione (a vit K3 derivative) - you will know immediately that it comes from a company who doesn't care one bit about their feeds.
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01-23-2008, 05:56 AM | #10 |
No Longer a Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: way down South
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| Thanks Wylies Mom. I knew by scent that something was wrong. Anyways she is on chicken and rice now...so what supplements do I need to use? I really need to know. |
01-23-2008, 06:01 AM | #11 |
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| hmm...i wonder what yorkie smell is..hehe
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