Natural Balance Sweet Potato and Fish Allergy Formula? REVIEWS PLEASE!
 

Well here I am with another food question :p As some of you may or may not know, I switched Tatum over to Natural Balance Potato & Duck Small Bites (Allergy Formula) almost exactly a month ago. For the past few days she seems to have totally lost interest in this food - which I might add is SO NOT like Tatum, lol. She is normally my little piglet and will usually eat any and everything you give her. However, it seems that now this food just isn't cutting it for her anymore :( I hate it too, because she has been doing really well on it so far and doesn't seem to itching NEAR as much as she used to. Tatum has VERY bad allergies and I just need a food that she will eat, and one that is going to help her.

So ok, here is my question. The other day I went into the place where I buy my babies food and I got a sample of the Natural Balance Potato and Fish Allergy Formula food and gave it to Tatum today for the first time and she seemed to absolutely LOVE it. Now, I don't know if it is just because this is a new food and it's something a little different that she is liking for "the moment" (it's so weird even saying that, cause she normally IS NOT my picky one, that would be Stedman, lol :p) - BUT, she seems to be more interested in this Sweet Potato and Fish one even more than she was with the NB Potato and Duck initially.

So basically I am just wondering if anyone here feeds this (NB Sweet Potato and Fish) to their babies with allergies and if so, what are your results with it? How long have your baby(s) been on it and do they LIKE the food? Are they itching any less?

Sorry for the long post but I just wanted to explain everything :p And thanks in advance to help help that you can offer! :D

Wow I made alot of typos :eek: Sorry about that guys...don't know whats wrong with me tonight lol!

Bumping this up so maybe you can get some help!
I know how it is with allergies and losing interest in food & it sucks!!! :(

Girl, you're the sweetest! :hug: Thank you so much! :D

And P.S., you're right...it does suck :( LOL.

Ellie's never tried it, so I have no idea but I'd go with it since she did so well with the other one. It really depends on how much she has eaten of those ingredients before and if she developed an allergy to any of them. With sweet potato and fish, that isn't too likely. One question though, does the company they get their fish from use ethoxyquin to preserve it? because I wouldn't use it then...

My friend has a black lab/husky mix and she feeds this to her.. She continues to buy it, so she must think it's working.

I'll ask her for more details on what she thinks and let ya know.

Thank you so much for your help Crystal :) I am not sure about the Ethoxyquin thing and that is something that I am checking into almost as we speak. I know in the past they did NOT mention that they DIDN'T use it...but they made have made a statement since then saying that they DON'T.

I am going to check into this very soon!

Thank you so much! I would greatly appreciate it!! :hug:

I have not read any responses on this yet but i will .. just wanted to let you know quickly that i switched to the same brand for the same reasons as you did. I do switch back and forth with the different taste for them. Ahia is the reason I switched to the alergy formula. It did help with her itching.

I dont' know how long we have been using it ..... probably a year maybe longer. sorry i can't give you exacts here.

Love this dog food!!!
 

My two Yorkies have been on this formula for about two years now and I saw a difference in their skin and the itching/scratching within about two to three weeks. They don't scratch at all now. This is all I feed them now and they love it!!!! I would highly recommend it! My babies have had no digestive issues on this formula either.

Andrea:aimeeyork

Lucy and Rebel were switched to this about 3 months ago. They love it and Lucy hasn't had the skin problems she's had in the past.

Pasquale was on the Ultra Natural Balance Chicken formula (Small Bites) at first..he absolutely LOVED it. However, he was starting to itch really bad....ALOT! So I just went and bought him the Duck and Potato Allergy Formula Small Bites today. He's not too thrilled with it. The fish and potato may be my next step. But i'm gonna give this one at least a few days. I'm exhausted cause it took me FOREVER to find a food he would actually eat and now that i found it....he started to itch.(sigh) Oh well...wish me luck. I say if your dog likes the fish and potato...stick with it! :thumbup:

We have been using the Sweet Potatoe and Fish for over a year and have seen alot less allergy issues (itching). I add a little boiled chicken - and I mean very little - to keep mine interested in eating. So far, the chicken has not made things worse, but you would want to be careful because alot of yorkies are sensative to chicken. (And mine were sensative to chicken when eating a dry food that was made from chicken...but do ok on the very small amounts of boiled chicken.)

Hi,

I haven't posted in FOREVER and just caught this thread. After I did all my food research I finally decided on Natural Balance. I felt even better about this decision when I went to the pet store and luckily the person I spoke with had yorkies as well and gave me great feedback on NB. I switch up Bella's food every few months, and by switching I mean the flavors they offer. This was on both the sales rep and my vets' recommendation to switch the flavorings so she doesn't develop an allergy to it.

Oh and Bella has had no extreme itching or scratching.

Hope this helps,

There seems to be a Swwet Potato and Venison kibble & now canned shortage. I email NB the other day and asked about this because I have not been able to find it at Petco in 3 weeks. The sales rep for NB called me today and we had a very nice chat. He said there were having issues with supply to Petco in the Midwest. Go figure~if I lived in Canada there would probably be issues there:rolleyes::rolleyes:

I just bought the potato and duck when I was no longer able to get the SP & Venison and they kind of turned their noses up at it. What I did was added about a spoonful of canned NB and water to the mix and made a gravy. It has really helped a lot. They are gobbling the stuff like it's from a 5 star!

Maybe you should also give it a try. One can will last me 2 day with 2 feeding a day, I have 3 little piglets so it really does go far!

Thank you all so much for your replies and for your help! I haven't been on in a few days so I am just now getting to sit down and reply :)

Tatum has been eating this for a few days now and we will see how it goes. I don't know if it's all in my head or what (because I don't know how she could have POSSIBLY been eating it long enough for me to see any results this quick :confused:) but it seems as though she has been itching a little more over the past few days :confused: More than she was when she was on the NB Potato and Duck anyway. When she was on the Potato and Duck, I hardly ever saw her itch.

I have started adding a little bit of NB canned to her dry kibble (ONLY in the morning) as I have figured out that she DOES NOT like her Grizzly Salmon Oil squirted on top of her dry food :rolleyes: She refuses to touch the dry with the Salmon Oil on it. When she ate Raw she would gobble it down with the Salmon Oil on it, but she won't touch her dry food with Salmon Oil! So, I now have to mix a little bit of NB Canned with her dry food only in the morning in order to get the Salmon Oil down her. SIGH...she is turning into a picky little girl which she NEVER was before!! :eek:

Anyway, I am going to keep feeding the NB Sweet Potato and Fish and see how it goes. Hopefully this will be "THE ONE" and she can stick with it!!! :D :thumbup: