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05-02-2005, 04:05 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Central Texas
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| Dry vs Wet Food Hi! I'm new to the forum, my husband and I have a new Yorkie baby, Rowdy (as if my username was not a dead giveaway!). I posted a question about food on another thread, but didn't get any responses, so I thought I would start a new thread. When Rowdy was 9 weeks old - a couple of weeks ago - my husband gave him some dry kibbles (he had been eating wet food up till then). He was wild about them and gulped them down without chewing them and I think he ate too much. The next morning he had one episode of diarrhea and he didn't want to eat anything so we took him to the vet, he checked out A-OK and by late afternoon he was back to his usual self, normal poop and eating his wet food. I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation on the best age to start dry food and has anyone had this problem of their baby gulping down the dry food without chewing it. His canines are in, as are his top front teeth, but the bottom front teeth are not all yet in. He wants to chew on EVERYTHING! I would love to get him completely on dry food, but of course we are hesitant, given our first try. Does anyone have any advice about this dilemma? |
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05-02-2005, 04:15 PM | #2 |
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| I am no expert on this since I didn't get my puppies until they were 10 and 12 weeks but I can tell you that they werw on only dry ffod when I got them. Dry kibble is best for them, but I did have to vary from that somewhat when one got a tummy ache and stopped eating. He was syringe fed for five days a mixture of very wet, thin baby food mixed with puppy food and karo syrup. I have also fed them boled chicken for fear of low blood sugar when I really want them to eat. Since about 4 months thought they have been exclusively on dry kibble. Someone else can proably help you with the 9 week age. I know that to get them to eat the dry they recommend wetting it with warm water, adding shaving of a natural balance log or grated parmesan cheese to make it more palatable. Good luck! |
05-02-2005, 04:26 PM | #3 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Central Texas
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| Thanks! He's 11 weeks now - we had the dry food issue at 9 weeks. Thanks for the suggestion, I sure appreciate it!!! |
05-02-2005, 04:30 PM | #4 |
JereBo On the Go Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Jax, Florida
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| When Jane was puppy we would always mix wet and dry food. But she would alway pick the wet food out with her nose but when she got older she would pick the dry food out! Now she just eats wet food now!
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05-02-2005, 06:08 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Florida
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| My personal experience has been that that everytime I try to put Cookie on dry food or just add dry food ,he ends up with diareah I have tried several dry food and have had the same results. If I just give him only dry food he will NOT eat it. I tried to give "tough love" and not give in. Well he's tougher than me! he lasted 3 days without eating dryfood. he would only drink water and Nutrical 3 times a day. I gave in and gave him wet food.His poop is firm and I have had no more diareah problems. I tried Royal Canine, Chicken Soup, Eukanuba and others. Chicken Soup and Eukunaba gave him the runs pretty bad I have talked to the vet about this problem and he suggested only dryfood and make him wait until he was so hungry that he would have to eat it. Well he never went near it. I even tried sprinkling a little parmasen cheese and that didnt work either. I told the vet that this went on for 3 days and he told me because of his tinysize that wetfood was better than none .I'm sorry but I wont see just how long he would last without eating anything but nutrical and water Genie |
05-02-2005, 06:13 PM | #6 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: May 2005 Location: Depends on the time of year, but almost always VA
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| Something my family learned with Misty (my old 65 lb dog), who had a sensitive stomach, and with raising guide dogs, is that whenever you transition a dog from one food to another, do it gradually, or it WILL get diarrhea. The dog just isn't used to the new food. Then again, that's what I learned about big dogs. My family's vet told us that dry kibble would be best for Tristan, because smaller dogs can have teeth problems, and they're more prone to teeth problems if they are on a wet food diet. |
05-02-2005, 06:58 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Central Texas
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| You may be right about the new food giving him diarrhea. The dry kibble was the same brand and same ingredients (lamb & rice) as the wet food, but the different mode = dry kibbles vs wet may have contributed to the diarrhea. We'll try just a few kibbles at a time to see if that will acclimate him to the dry food. Thanks for the suggestion. |
05-02-2005, 10:27 PM | #8 |
YT Addict Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Tempe, AZ
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| Mine are the opposite! Wet food = diarrhea and smelly gas!!! |
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