I'm looking for a new canned food for Tallulah -- she gets part canned and part kibble daily. She was doing fine on the Cesar food her breeder sent home, but I didn't like all the ingredients on the label. Put her on a premium food (switching just a little bit daily) and she began to have diarrhea. I had her checked by my vet and she had some bacteria in her stool, so we put her on the bland chicken and rice diet for a few days and gave her an antibiotic and probiotics for a few days until it cleared up. Then I gradually transitioned her back to the new premium food and she got diarrhea again. She's been back on the chicken and rice for a few days and doing fine, so I went to the pet store last night and spent an hour reading labels. Why on earth does it have to be so complicated? Even the limited ingredient premium foods have ingredients that I object to. Salt, for one. And why on earth would a dog food manufacturer put garlic in their food? That's like getting a can of beans for your kids and finding arsenic on the label.
I don't want to feed raw because I don't trust food suppliers to ensure that all of the procedures for clean, safe raw meats are followed. I wouldn't mind preparing Tallulah's food myself if there was a definitive guide to cooked dog foods that would give her the right balance of nutrition. Guess it's time to do more searching.
Sorry about the rant -- but it's so frustrating when you want to do the very best for your pet and stores sell so much garbage. |