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07-25-2014, 07:30 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Stafford, Virginia
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| Blue Buffalo Wilderness Would you recommend this for a puppy? It is formulated for puppies and I was thinking the chicken. It is no grain at all. The food from the breeder was Blue Buffalo oatmeal and chicken. Is it better to have the oatmeal too? |
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07-25-2014, 07:41 AM | #2 |
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| It is very well known brand thats what I give to my puppy does not like it too much. I would not recommend switching foods specially being a puppy and Yorkies have really sensitive stomach he could get sick if you start giving him a different food. If you do consider something different I have heard royal canine has a food specially formulated for Yorkies. The only safe way of switching foods is by mixing his new food with small portions of the new food. |
07-25-2014, 07:44 AM | #3 |
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| When I first brought Toki home, I fed her the Blue Buffalo chicken and oatmeal for small breed puppies for a couple months and eventually switched her to BB Wilderness for puppies. She did absolutely fine on both and I really didn't notice a difference (except the Wilderness formulas are more expensive than the other formulas). I don't think there's a reason to automatically go completely grain-free unless your dog has sensitivities (which isn't terribly common from what I understand) if that's a concern. Either of those two formulas will be fine if your pup tolerates them I'd keep a puppy on the same food as the breeder for a little while (not sure how long your pup has been with you) until they get settled in their new home before switching if you did want to try the Wilderness though. |
07-25-2014, 08:03 AM | #4 |
Furbutts = LOVE Donating Member Moderator | Honestly, they're both decent foods and I don't think you can go wrong either way, unless one of the foods doesn't agree as well w/ your pup. It's mostly personal preference/philosophy as far as grains go. Personally, I prefer a lower grain/higher-protein diet for myself and for my 3 pups...but especially for my pups since they are canines. If you prefer no grain, give it a try and see whatcha think, nothing wrong w/ trying .
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07-25-2014, 08:06 AM | #5 | |
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07-25-2014, 09:34 AM | #6 |
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| Sense the pup is so young I would keep her on what she is eating right now because so many people have problems with young pups not eating. Grains are fine for dogs.
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07-25-2014, 09:37 AM | #7 |
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| I wouldn't change a young puppy from the one food his tummy can successfully digest until he's older and his digestive system fully developed.
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07-27-2014, 03:50 AM | #8 |
YT Addict | I have a 11 week old puppy and just switched from a bison formula to blue buffalo freedom for puppies. It is grain free, gluten free, no soy or preservatives. He wasn't eating his food like he should and I switched. I did not really have to integrate the food, he immediately liked it. I mix a tablespoon of wet to 1/3 cup of dry for the next four meals and put it in the refrigerator. I started changing with the canned first and adding it to his dry food and then in one day switched the dry out He never got diarreahea. Just watch his stools and you will adjust the new to the old based on his bms. Eventually when he gets his incisors in I will drop the wet and feed all dry. |
07-27-2014, 05:40 AM | #9 |
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| Blue Buffalo is a marketing company that doesn't make its own food. It contracts the production out to 8 different plants so there is no way for the company to monitor the quality. It is just a smoke and mirrors company. Avoid it. |
07-27-2014, 11:29 AM | #10 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Stafford, Virginia
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| Okay Nipper, what would you recommend? |
07-27-2014, 11:44 AM | #11 |
YT 2000 Club Member | dog I personally would not feed Blue Buffalo. I had my boys on it and they had squishy poop. I changed to Wellness after a recommendation from my show dog poodle breeder. My boys eat the Complete Health Chicken and Oatmeal in the purple bag. Their coats are shiny and they seem to like the food. I would recommend this food over the Blue Buff. You can mix a little of the chicken stew canned in it |
07-27-2014, 11:50 AM | #12 |
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| Many dogs do not do aas well on grains. Grain free foods tend to have more meat based protein and more easily digested animal fat. Corn and wheat Re more difficult to digest. Some dogs are more bothered by this. Also, canines are carnivores, not herbivores. Herbivores have salivary amylase to break down starchy carbohydrates into simple sugars - it does this before it hits the stomach. Dogs do product amylase ,but further down the digestive track so cRbohydrates are harder to digest/ break down. Cooking grains makes them more digestible for carnivores. Kibbles can be grain free but are not carbohydrate free. So it is reported that grain free food more closely mimics the dogs ancestral diet and lessen food allergies. That being said there are dogs that have not problems with grains - this just kind of describes how grain free diets work. Also, some vegetables (potatoes) are a source of carbohydrates in non-grain foods.
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07-27-2014, 12:55 PM | #13 |
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| Peanut (now 15 weeks) was on Nutro small breed puppy food but kept getting into the Blue Buffalo that I feed my Schnauzer girl so I switched him over to Blue Buffalo Puppy. I just mixed the two puppy foods together for about a week and have had no problems with loose stools. The only difference I see in the two foods is the Nutro is very small pieces. I think this would work great when they are just starting out on kibble but Peanut seemed to want the larger size of the Blue Buffalo. |
07-28-2014, 03:29 AM | #14 |
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