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06-06-2009, 06:50 PM | #1 |
♥LiVe♥LauGH♥LoVe♥ Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tyler's Heart, North♥Carolina
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| Should I? I feed Tyler Purina Puppy Chow and though he eats it, he seems like he's underweight just a bit to me. Like I can feel his two bones at his butt and it bugs me. He has no medical issues... just seems he doesn't eat much. Is there something else I should be feeding him or maybe even change his food? I haven't heard anyone feeding their dogs purina since I've been on this forum LOL!! Thanks for the help!! |
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06-06-2009, 07:01 PM | #2 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Cambridgeshire, England
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| I wouldn't feed mine anything purina. It is difficult to get the better foods where I live but I always try to get the best I can find. I would have to look for the link but I am sure someone will come in with it, for the food ratings. The one I feed I believe is a 6. The best thing to do is look at the ingredients. You don't want to see fillers, by products, wheat gluten and things like that. I feed a grain free, Taste of the Wild. There is only one store anywhere near me that sells it and if they stopped I would be in trouble. I also feed Blue canned. I am sure that everyone else will come in with a lot of great suggestions on what they feed as most here seem to feed only the better stuff. You might find it easier to get your little one to eat more if you mixed in some canned with the dry. It is difficult to make food choices for them after all the food scares and recalls, you just don't know what is safe anymore.
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06-06-2009, 07:05 PM | #3 | |
♥LiVe♥LauGH♥LoVe♥ Donating Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Tyler's Heart, North♥Carolina
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06-06-2009, 07:09 PM | #4 |
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| I'm sure you will find a lot of us do it differently but what I do is leave a bowl of the dry down all day and 2-3 times throughout the day I mix a small bowl of dry with wet and feed that as well. They will usually pick at the dry but devour the wet mix at meal times. My honey has gotten though where sometimes she will eat around the dry so I will put some dry loose on her bed and she doesn't want it there and will eat it just to get rid of it, it is so funny.
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06-07-2009, 04:16 AM | #5 | |
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Purina is NOT good food. If you look at the ingredients you will see the words "by-products" google this....you will change your mind on what you are feeding him...There are so many good foods out there...someone had posted (here) a site with several very good brands, canned and kibbles. Don't know where it is though. I feed Merricks. They also sell a puppy food...I use a tiny bit of canned(Wellness) as a topper. Good Luck!
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06-07-2009, 04:47 AM | #6 |
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| Personally, I would stray away from Purina. Not a good brand. So far Jackson has really liked Dog Whisperer puppy food (you can get at Petco), Wellness (also Petco), Innova and Merrick's Before Grain. He now eats Innova.
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06-07-2009, 07:47 AM | #7 |
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| Taste of the Wild dog food is not really appropriate for young puppies. I feel Nature's Variety Prairie (chicken and brown rice formula) as a good all life stages food for my 5 dogs. Also Solid Gold 'Just A Little Bit' is good for small breed puppies and adult dogs. Innova puppy is another great food. There are several good ones. Just look for foods with no by-products, no wheat, no corn, no soy, no non-specific "animal" parts, and many don't care for the use of beet pulp. |
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