We decided to explore other food options after reading the contents of some of the leading dog foods and have decided to switch. Toto is naturally finicky about her food and even though I'm smart enough to know that if they are hungry enough they will eat what's there. I figure that if this little bit of fluff can give us so much .... we can go the extra mile for her! I have our vet in Alabama [we are working on a project in Texas] on "speed dial" at the office and at home so we aren't going into this blindly. I bought several good books on this subject along with a great little "cookbook" called "Barkers Grub" which are quite useful. Some things are "common sense" and some things I have learned are quite surprising, i.e., I am 61 and have had pets for most of my life and didn't know onion was like poison to pets [or at least it is for Yorkies]! I met a Yorkie lover at the courthouse in a Parish over in LA who almost lost her baby because she was eating spicy sausage and her Yorkie [being a beggar] wanted some and she gave it to her!! The second thing we taught Toto was a very firm [not mean] NO! And she knows that if she hears that one word she better quit whatever she is doing or else it's "time-out" and being ignored in her X-pen! We try not to over use the word so it doesn't become ineffective. I guess being a Yorkie lover is like a journey ... you learn as you go!
