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Originally Posted by Ladymom  Lady can't eat raw because of her diabetes and weakened immune system so I feed her Natures Variety Prairie kibble. She's been eating it for about a year and a half and I haven't noticed any problem with her drinking too much water.
Maybe it's the brand of high protein food? I've heard the same complaint about Innova's Evo.
FYI, Lady's specialist said exactly what MyFairLacy said about high protein diets being more natural. He said that diabetes in pets was practically unheard of years ago before commercial kibble hit the market, but it's almost an epidemic in pets today. He explained that dogs and cats are carnivores and aren't able to process carbohydrates the way humans are. Carbohydrates are converted to sugar and dogs can't metabolize them properly. He said they are are seeing cases of diabetes being caused solely by diets of commercial kibble in dogs and especially cats. He did say that Prairie was "excellent" and one of the few commercial dog foods he would recommend.
The bottomline is really that meat is much more expensive than rice, potato, etc. which is why the companies who make commercial dog food would much rather load their food up with that than produce a high protein kibble. The cheaper dog foods are a perfect example as they are full of corn. |
I have heard this also from others that feed Innova but i havent tried it myself. With Natures Variety the Raw Instinct is grain free and has 42% crude protein where as the Prarie is not grain gree and has 26% crude protein with both being chicken. I thought my pit bull was allergic to grain so i tried the Raw Instinct chicken and he did very well on it but he had very loose stools all the time. I switched him to Prarie Beef and his stools are regular. Turns out chicken gives him the runs and grains give him itchy feet causeing him to bite them alot. So i think our next bag of food will be the Raw Instinct Duck and Turkey, no runs and no allergies................i hope.
It takes a while to find the perfect food for your dog, whats good for one dog isnt always good for another. Some of us humans are lactose intollerant, some have certain food allergies. And it takes a couple months of being on a certain food befor any changes like allergies really occur.