[cj125]

Originally Posted by snowbird

Cj125 I did buy the small bites and I find they are a little large. I too brush Bella's teeth regularly. This food thing drives me crazy. You try your best to do the best for your pup, taking vet's advise and it seems here you never get it right. I have always had larger dogs, golden's,, King Charles cavalier and I never paid much attention to what I fed them. The Golden lived to be 15 and died of old age and the cavalier was 14 and was the same. Both of them were on grocery store dog food. I never had any health problems with neither one. With this little one I thought I would do the right thing and ask the vet and now it seems she doesn't know anything either. I disagree with some of these members saying the vet doesn't know the difference. I do know she would never give any animal anything that would potentially harm them. She has been my vet for over 20 years and regularly goes to all the large conferences and is on the natioal board so I tend to believe she is up to date on all the latest information. So you give your little ones 1/2 cup a day that is less than the recommended amount and that seems to satisfy them. Bella's other food she was only eating a half a cup also. I think that is what I will try. Thanks again for replying

You know this is one of those subjects that can go on and on so I'm just going to leave my opinion as it is.

Snowbird, sooo funny that you mentioned you had larger breeds because so did we.... Lucky our Blk Lab. Like you, we didn't have the money or the knowledge to feed him anything but store kibble. He ate Wish Bones, regular rawhides and anything that we ate - including GRAPES!!! lol! We didn't know any better and he loved them. Well, Lucky made it to 15 yrs - still had all of his teeth which were in great condition considering we NEVER brushed them! The larger breeds are much more resiliant. These litle ones are truly like babies - but I love them just as much!