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09-10-2011, 10:48 AM | #1 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NY
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| What can I do with dog food? Due to Roxie's digestive and allergy issues lately, we have been through 3 different foods over the course of the summer. Her issues began just shortly after we bought a huge bag of her regular food (Innova EVO weight control - the one she'd been eating for over a year). The vet put her on Hills I/D a few weeks ago, but her scratching and licking became pretty intense on that one. So, I have like half of an 8 lb. bag left. Now we are trying Hill's Z/D in the hopes that it will be the answer we need to her digestive and allergy issues. But what on earth can I do with all of this perfectly good leftover food? The bags are open, so I don't think any vet's offices or kennels will take it. It wasn't cheap, so I really hate to just throw it out. Ideas?
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09-10-2011, 10:54 AM | #2 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Donate it to your animal shelter. They always need donations of food
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09-10-2011, 10:55 AM | #3 |
Jada + Bogie = ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Mayberry AKA smalltown usa
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| What about your local Humane Society or Animal Shelter?
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09-10-2011, 10:58 AM | #4 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NY
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| I will check...but I didn't think they took open food either.
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09-10-2011, 11:40 AM | #5 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| The I/D can be returned to your vet (they can return it to Hill's) for a full refund. I've done it with both Hill's and Purina rx foods.
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09-10-2011, 11:49 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New York
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| You can donate it to a rescue group or return it to the vet. Hills RX will give you a refund. |
09-10-2011, 11:58 AM | #7 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East Tn
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| I had this issue as well and by word of mouth ask around and found a struggling family and donated it. Alot of ppl are fallin on hard times and can't buy groceries let alone dog food and would love to have it. |
09-11-2011, 01:48 AM | #8 |
YT 1000 Club Member | I certainly agree that donating it to a needy family or organization would be a very nice gesture, but... I have bought "new" food whilst having some left over from the older. I sprinkled it out on the yard near our Pine Trees. The Birds and Squirrels love it, and, I think it's helped the Squirrels be more healthy, and able to run from my guys better !
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09-11-2011, 05:13 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 100K Club Member & Top YorkieTalk Poster! Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: western KY
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| Great idea
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09-11-2011, 08:23 AM | #11 |
Therapy Yorkies Work Donating Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Central, Florida
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| I would put a note on the church bulletin board and my phone number. Most people are afraid to take opened food from a stranger, sadly this is a crazy world we live in.
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09-13-2011, 11:02 AM | #12 |
YT Addict Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: New Jersey
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| Does not like food in the bowl? So my little 4 month old princess has become a fussy eater. Not in the sense of what she eats, but how. She really doesnt go and put her head in a bowl, the food will sit there and she doesnt go in to eat it. So i tried to put it on a tiny plate, she would nibble here or there. She only likes to eat out of mommys hand or if i toss the food to her like a game. This cant go on and i need to break out of the habbit. i knwo she will eventually eat if she is hungry, but she doesnt seem to like the many bowls i have tried. is tehre a good suggestion for this? is there a good bowl for her to eat out of that will work? |
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