Has anyone tried Eukanuba Yorkshire Terrier Formula?

[sondra2004]

Has anyone tried this new dry food specially for Yorkies.?

[connie777]

But it's funny because I came to Yorkie Talk to ask just that same question. I have been feling Eukanuba Puppy to my dog Bentley since last year. He turned one year on May 3.

[Cookie2]

I did not know Eukanuba had a Yorkie Formula? I'm still feeding Angel my 15 week old the Eukanuba puppy bites. You will deffinately hear 100 different opinions on which food is good or bad but I'm sticking to this one until Angel is a few months older and will probably be switched to the Yorkie formula or adult small bites Eukanuba. I'm going to Google the Yorkie formula to see what I find out!



Genie
Cookie
Lola
Angel

[Cookie2]

Ok I found it at Petco.com . Here are the ingredients and picture of what the bag looks like :

Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Brewers Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Fish Meal, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Dried Egg Product, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Brewers Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Flax Meal, Fructooligosaccharides, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), DL-Methionine, Rosemary Extract.
These guideline amounts are a starting point and your pet may need more food depending on age, activity and temperament. In order to reach optimal body condition, you may need to adjust food intake. This represents the total recommended volume of food per day. You should divide the total recommended feeding amount by the number of times you feed your pet per day to get the actual portion size per feeding.
Weight of Dog (lbs.) : Feed Daily(Cups)
1 lbs: ¼ c
3 lbs: ¼ c
5 lbs: 1/3 c
8 lbs: ½ c
10 lbs: 2/3 c
12 lbs: 2/3 c
15 lbs: ¾ c

[TLC]

There are sooooooooooooo many better quality brands than any kind of Euk.

Check out:

www.dogfoodanalysis.com

Try to stay in the 5 or 4 star range. (6 stars are too high in protein for these little ones.) I don't recall exactly, but I think Euk. is a 1 star and they do horrible, horrible animal testing

[Sadie's Mom]

Sadie's food wasn't on there. The dry version was, but not the canned. The dry version didn't rate well, but unfortunately, it's a prescription food & the only thing she can eat that doesn't irritate her & cause the bleeding issues.

[Erin]

Eukanuba is full of fillers.


Chicken
Chicken By-Product Meal - ICK
Corn Meal - cheap filler
Ground Whole Grain Sorghum - cheap filler
Brewers Rice - cheap filler - this is what's left over after they use the good part of the rice
Fish Meal - good food has a named fish. This could be Catfish meal for all you know.
Ground Whole Grain Barley - more cheap filler
Natural Chicken Flavor - they didn't put enough meat in so they have to flavor it?

Your dog doesn't need YT food. He needs good food. Try Canidae or Merrick or Innova. There are lots of good brands out there but those are the ones I personally trust with all this recall business.

Ingredients of Canidae All Life Stages for comparison

Chicken Meal, Turkey Meal, Brown Rice, White Rice, Lamb Meal, Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols), Herring Meal, Flax Seed, Sun Cured Alfalfa Meal, Sunflower Oil, Chicken, Lecithin, Monocalcium Phosphate, Potassium Chloride, Choline Chloride, Linoleic Acid, Rosemary Extract, Sage Extract, Dried Enterococcus Faecium, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Extract, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract, Inulin (from Chicory root), Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Solubles, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Mixed Tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), Zinc Amino Acid Chelate, Manganese Amino Acid Chelate, Iron Amino Acid Chelate, Copper Amino Acid Chelate, Cobalt Amino Acid Chelate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (source of Vitamin C), Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (source of B2), Beta Carotene, Calcium Pantothenate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (Vitamin B6), Calcium Iodate, Folic Acid, D-Biotin, Sodium Selenite, Papaya, Vitamin B12 Supplement.

[Heather Taylor]

My vet says never buy anything with 'by-product' in it...GROSS, it could be the trash parts of the bird or whatever.

[BLowry]

Originally Posted by Cookie2

Ok I found it at Petco.com . Here are the ingredients and picture of what the bag looks like :

Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Meal, Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Brewers Rice, Chicken Fat (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Fish Meal, Ground Whole Grain Barley, Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Dried Egg Product, Fish Oil (preserved with mixed Tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Brewers Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Salt, Vitamins (Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid, Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of Vitamin B1), Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of Vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of Vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Folic Acid), Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Flax Meal, Fructooligosaccharides, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Minerals (Ferrous Sulfate, Zinc Oxide, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Potassium Iodide, Cobalt Carbonate), DL-Methionine, Rosemary Extract.
These guideline amounts are a starting point and your pet may need more food depending on age, activity and temperament. In order to reach optimal body condition, you may need to adjust food intake. This represents the total recommended volume of food per day. You should divide the total recommended feeding amount by the number of times you feed your pet per day to get the actual portion size per feeding.
Weight of Dog (lbs.) : Feed Daily(Cups)
1 lbs: ¼ c
3 lbs: ¼ c
5 lbs: 1/3 c
8 lbs: ½ c
10 lbs: 2/3 c
12 lbs: 2/3 c
15 lbs: ¾ c

This is NOT one of the better foods to be feeding your puppy....or adult..the second and third ingridents are garbage....Look up "by-product" and see what it is...I gaurentee you will stop feeding them this.


JMO

[Wylie's Mom]

I would stay as far aways as possible from Eukanuba. Check out the dog food analysis site, it so wonderfully educational.

Not only that, but Euk. is a shady company - remember a couple years back in the news - it was a huge story about Euk's testing on dogs and they were horribly, terribly cruel to the very creatures they are supposed to care for and about.

They were busted big time and went into emergency apology mode like s**t on a blanket.

[Sugar's Mom]

Originally Posted by Cookie2

I did not know Eukanuba had a Yorkie Formula? I'm still feeding Angel my 15 week old the Eukanuba puppy bites. You will deffinately hear 100 different opinions on which food is good or bad but I'm sticking to this one until Angel is a few months older and will probably be switched to the Yorkie formula or adult small bites Eukanuba. I'm going to Google the Yorkie formula to see what I find out!



Genie
Cookie
Lola
Angel

i recently got some coupons in the mail for it but haven't tried it. i do feed ALL my dogs Eukanuba small breed puppy. i have found that it is all they eat and there aren't a whole lot of choices available in the rural area I live in. Also, the mfg. of eukanuba is by a proctor and Gamble company. my hubby retired a few years ago from P and G and almost everything we use anywhere is made by p&G. they have rigourous guidlines that food and all their products must follow so we are confident with it.

[Yorkiedaze]

By-Products are hooves, intestines, feet, heads, fur, feathers and all other parts not fit for human consumption. Re-read those labels. Look at what was just listed in Canidae. Do you see real meat in the first three ingredients? The first three ingredients in any dog food are the main ingredients!!!! (but remember, they can put ANYTHING in dog food and not list it, and they can "say" the dog food has beef, chicken and such, but all they would have to do is throw in a beef head or intestines, and chicken feet and feathers for more fillers).
After "Lecithin", do you see real food listed? Do you even know what all those additives really are, and why they have to be added? When your baby has an allergy, do you even bother to think that it could be any one of those additives? Would you eat that food? If not, then why feed it to your most precious baby?

[RLC12345678]

I wouldn't feed this food if it were me. Three of the first 4 ingredients are trash.

[mistyinca]

Originally Posted by Sugar's Mom

i recently got some coupons in the mail for it but haven't tried it. i do feed ALL my dogs Eukanuba small breed puppy. i have found that it is all they eat and there aren't a whole lot of choices available in the rural area I live in. Also, the mfg. of eukanuba is by a proctor and Gamble company. my hubby retired a few years ago from P and G and almost everything we use anywhere is made by p&G. they have rigourous guidlines that food and all their products must follow so we are confident with it.

I tend to agree with you.
I don't feed it mostly because Chloe won't eat it (and we pretty much go with what our dogs will eat), so we feed Royal Canin. I know a bunch out there won't agree with me (and I'm OK with that ) but by-products aren't the terrible thing that a lot of dog food sites will state. Neither is corn the evil monster some claim.

Don't want to (and won't) get into a dogfood debate. Just my opinion, fwiw.

[rrosenberry]

Originally Posted by RLC12345678

I wouldn't feed this food if it were me. Three of the first 4 ingredients are trash.

Right and that means the most of anything in it is trash!

Also CORN anything makes a lot of dogs itch.