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Originally Posted by Britster  I forget if you said you had tried the NB dry kibble?
After Jackson's pancreatitis issue, I had him on Castor & Pollux Weight Mgt. food, which he really seemed to like, but the eye boogers got bad after a few weeks. Otherwise, had no complaints about the food.
Decided I wanted to try a limited ingredient diet, just for the heck of it. Sometimes it seems like there is just sooo many ingredients in dog food that doesn't seem necessary all the time. But maybe it's just me. Anyways did a whole bag of California Natural and the breath started stinking more, he began drinking a lot more water, his coat DID seem less shiny to me, he got bored of the taste really quickly... I will say most eye goop/crusties went away on the venison and poop was fine.
Long story short, I finally gave Natural Balance Lamb & Rice a try and am REALLY happy with it. We are halfway through the bag and he's doing fantastic in all aspects. Plus, I know I've said this before, but this really IS the most I've seen him like a food. I mean, the minute I pour it in his bowl, he eats it right up. He's always liked a bit larger kibbles as well so I think he prefers it for that reason too (gonna get Large Bites next bag). But honestly, even when I opened the bag it smelled surprisingly good.  For kibble that is. I just thought it smelled really... fresh, maybe? I dunno. I had avoided this kibble in the past because it wasn't one of the grainless varieties but it actually seems better to me, ingredient-wise, than their grainless formulas. |
Thanks for repsonding.. I have mixed feelings about NB (as odd as that sounds). I have tried several of thier food items in the past, including samples. Ive tried their venison and duck formulas dry, canned, and food roll. They wouldnt touch the duck dry or canned but loved the food roll, however with all of thier food rolls that we tried they would drink a ton of water and Tucker was having accidents in the house. I also tried the venison and sweet potatoe (it smelled really really bad) my bigger dogs ate it but the littles wouldnt touch it. After feeding it to my beagle for several months her coat turned colors, her white parts on her coat, turned a dingy yellow color and her black part on her back had orange tips. Even the vet said her coloring was very odd, to take her off the food because it was probably the sweet potatoe in the food causing her coat to change, within a few month after stopping the food her coat started changing back to its normal coloring. Also during that time she developed a tumor on her leg that we had removed and it was cancerous. Im not saying it was the food but sometimes it did make me think about it. I also tried their bison,lamb, and chicken in samples.. they wouldnt touch the bison, ate the lamb and chicken the first time I offered it but not the second. I got samples of thier vegetarian formula recently and they did seem interested in that for a bit, but after a few days of giving Tucker some canned he started throwing it up.
I just dont know what to do anymore.
I do appreciate everyone responses.