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Originally Posted by gemy  It is too bad if she left. One can always remember where the information is coming from, but also remember too, that the information is not necessary wrong. She claimed who she was and where she was from.
Now I like many, do like to home cook/fed raw, and I know what goes into my dogs food, and I do work with my vet and nutritionist over formulations.
I like Judy, look very closely at my dogs conditions, not only to make sure they are not getting skinny or obese, but their teeth, eyes, and coat quality. If home cooking was not doing it for them, I would change them over to a kibble.
But kibble and various brands once my Blackies reach around or about a year old, do NOT do good on kibble as their main diet. Razzle the Yorkie actually did well - how-ever when the other members of the pack are eating real meat, kibble was a nose turner upper! Can't blame him for that.
I now retire once again from the food threads, not being a nutritionist, I have very little to offer.
In closing I will comment that actually at one time (don't know now if this person is still here) we had a vet, and we still have a geneticist on board. Who btw contributes a lot of interesting threads. The Color Dilution Thread was one such contribution by pstinard. |
Awww, shucks! I'm speechless!
I'm still here, although I'm not on Yorkietalk as much as I used to be. If I miss a genetics thread you want me to comment on, please PM me--otherwise I might miss it.
I'm glad that Ashley is/was here answering questions on nutrition. I found her style of explaining nutrition very helpful and accessible--much easier than trying to dig information out of a nutrition textbook. My take on the chicken meal vs. byproducts vs. real meat is that the choicer cuts of meat are too expensive and hard to come by, so they use less expensive ingredients that provide the same nutritional benefits. If my Bella were not healthy and content eating Blue Buffalo, I would definitely give Royal Canin a try. Bella ate Royal Canin when she was a puppy because the smaller kibble size was much easier for her to handle.
Ashley also said that RC's protein sources in North America are NOT sourced from China, but some of the vitamins are. So long as there is tight quality control on the vitamin lots from China, I don't have a problem with that either. Many vitamins that humans use also come from China...