However you decide to transition a dog or puppy onto a new food is up to the owner. But please remember that many of the ingredients in the foods that we feed are not foods that our dogs would either choose to eat or are foods that will be easily digested and assimiltated by our dogs. If you have an allergic reaction to a protien source will you continue to eat it hoping that your body will at some point tolerate it?
Would you eat the offending food in small and then increasing quantities in hope that at some point your body will be able to tolerate it? If your dog or puppy reacts badly to a specific food don't feed it. And for heavens sake don't continue to feed it in small and increasingly larger quantities until hopefully the poor dogs body will tolerate it. Will the people who sell the dog food tell you to introduce it gradually....of course they will. Big Red Flag! Food that your puppy or dog will thrive on won't take extended introduction time...they can eat it and immediatly digest and thrive on it. So many dog owners want to make feeding proticals and choices of foods far more difficult than it needs to be. |