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Originally Posted by lisaly  I have ordered the Balance It supplement and worked out a couple of diets on Dr. Remillard's site. The cost is so worth it to me to make sure that Katie's diet is well-balanced. I have tried Missing Link, but looking at the link from vet nutritionists on the Balance It site, it seems like so many from top vet schools and hospitals are recommending Balance It. My question is how different would Dr. Remillard's diet would be for a healthy three year old vs. the one using the Balance It's recipe generator? Both diets use BalanceIt as a supplement, and they seems so similar. Without a doubt if there were health issues, the services of a vet nutritionist is crucial. Can you call Dr. Remillard with questions if you get one of the diets for a healthy dog? I thought I'd get more than one recipe if I want to change things around a little bit for Katie, but the Recipe Generator at BalanceIt allows me to do that also. At one point, BalanceIt must have charged for their recipes, but now it seems they only charge if you don't purchase their supplements. https://www.petdiets.com/customdiet/samplediet.pdf https://secure.balanceit.com/tools/r...cipegenerator/ |
Dr R isn't a fan of missing link and states it is not balanced for home cooked diets
https://www.petdiets.com/faqs/display_faq.asp?ID=671
I have Balance it diets as well, and I like Dr R's better. They are not that different. I think it's a preference. I bought balance it diets when they did charge, and I have them both with the balance it product and with the human supplements. I do not use human supplements, it's a pain to cut the vitamin and I just find BI to be very easy.
A few people here who have bought petdiets recipes have emailed Dr R and gotten responses from her. You have to remember for $25 you're not paying for a consult. If you wanted something more in depth, you could do a consult with her for $50 at the University of North Carolina where she now works. That gets you a half hour phone call. If you wanted diets made it's extra ($100).
I can say that I email her regularly and she's always so helpful. Granted I am a consult client having done two formal consults for medical issues and buying diets for Teddy and Winston thru her site but from what others have told me she is always helpful with modulating the diets.