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01-23-2011, 07:36 AM | #1 |
Ringo (1) and Lucy too! Donating Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: On the Edge of Glory
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| Kibble for Lucy - mild MVD So I've been feeding Lucy breakfast with Natural Balance Vegetarian for about a year and I can no longer get her to eat it. IF I mix it with cooked carrots, she will eat most of it but I can't give her carrots every day. She will start having orange poops and I then have to back off. Lately, I've found her eating Ringo's Blue Buffalo Wilderness (which is high protein) and not good for her. Her vet says her BAT's are very low and does not think the vegetarian food is warranted; although she is doing fine on it ~ other than I can't get her to eat it anymore. I feed her Wellness limited ingredient for dinner - which is a fairly low protein food as well, mixed with 1 TBSP Wellness canned chicken. She barely eats the Wellness. Any kibble suggestions that are medium to lower protein percentages? And are fish/chicken/ (not beef or liver) based?
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01-23-2011, 08:08 AM | #2 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| I don't see any problem with moving away from vegetarian or white fish as long as those episodes she was having were from something else. Can't really help with kibbles since it has been so long for us. Usually the senior formulas are lower protein. I wonder if BB makes one with fish or chicken? You could coat whatever kibble you want to use with a very small amount of cottage cheese for plain yogurt if the food is low protein and she does okay with it. California Natural? That is low protein, but I don't know how you would feel about it since Iams just bought them out. Or another flavor of NB? Don't they have whitefish?
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01-23-2011, 08:24 AM | #3 |
T. Bumpkins & Co. Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New England
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| You could always add some fresh fish or chicken to a canned vegetarian formula like Avoderm if you can't find something else.
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01-23-2011, 09:16 AM | #4 |
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| My two also have mild mvd and after consulting with my vet we decided to just watch the kinds of protein and not feed the high protein foods, mine were not doing good on the super low protein diet. So far they have continued to be very healthy and not have any episodes. I feed natures variety, the chicken formula. Fromm makes both a whitefish and a chicken variety, I couldn't get mine to touch the whitefish though. Natural balance has some good limited ingredient diets, one is a chicken variety.... Mine did pretty good on that.
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01-23-2011, 02:36 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Cali has very mild MVD and I was feeding her California Natural lamb and rice since she also has allergies. She did real well on it.
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01-23-2011, 03:49 PM | #6 |
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| I decided to try the 'Blue" limited ingredient food since it looks so much like Ringo's with the 'lifesource bits' and all that. It's 21% protein with turkey as the meat. She has never had any problem with the Wellness canned turkey so we'll see. I'll introduce it gradually and see how she does. Thanks for all the suggestions; this food may or may not work and I'll try what some of you guys are using.
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