Originally Posted by Miao (Post 2526850)

She's been pretty good while transitioning through foods since I've gotten her early last summer. She is now a year and a month old. :) Stools are never runny and it was at most a little softer than previously at times. She was started off on Eukaneba dry free-feed and locally ground up chicken and bones raw diet by her breeder. When I got her, I had finished the little bag of Eukaneba her breeder had passed along and continued with the raw diet while putting her on Innova EVO red meat and alternating with their chicken dry formula. She was really gassy, and her stool had been really hard and dry. I had later tried to transition her to Petcurean's now! puppy formula and had to cook her raw and eventually just stuck with dry food and the occassional boiled chicken and even stopped that now. She did best on the "now!" formula and ate it without too much trouble until they changed the formula on the next bag I purchased. Before that happened, she had gotten some Orijen 6-fish mixed into her food but I hadn't intended to keep her strictly on Orijen but wanted the fish oils for her coat. Well, she had to stop the "now!" food because the new formula made her itchy. Her stool was fine. Her appetite was the same. Now that we're nearing the end of the bag of Orijen, we had decided to go along with her snubbing of Orijen. She's been on NB for a couple of months now and I like how it still has that fresh smell and not the "stale dog food stench" that some dry kibbles seem to share. Even that Addiction's Salmon Bleu smelled really yummy when I opened the bag but within the same day in the evening, the "treat" ziploc bag I had it in ended up smelling a little like the generic staleness and it had lost that light fluffy crisp "crunch" sound when she bit into it. But she'd still eat it as a treat but you can tell it isn't her favourite as she does prefer her real treats. LOL.

I have always intended to have at least 2 brands of dry kibble for her to be on so that if ever I get caught in a situation where I can't find anywhere to supply me with the one brand, hopefully, I would be able to locate the other. This way, it wouldn't be a whole new food to her.

I did not have my yorkie in 2007. I did, however, have my 12-13lb (11lb healthy weight) shih tzu at the time. And that was the last year of her life for the 9.5 years she had been my little girl. She passed when she was approximately 13-15 years old. She could very well have lived longer than that if, maybe, she hadn't been on Science Diet (regular, senior and then z/d) for the last 7.5 years of her life with perhaps a 6 month period where she was on raw and cooked organic buffalo and so forth. If only we had been more diligent in her diet and care. She's the love of my husband's furry life, my old man's favourite dinner companion :rolleyes: , and our first "baby" together. :(

My childhood Tibetan Spaniel was on "table scraps" when we got him at 5 years old, and then we had to switch him over to cooked human grade supermarket lamb chop and rabbit diet for the rest of his life per doctor's order. Though I'm sure that wasn't the healthiest either for being pure protein, no supplements, a very unbalanced diet.

So, yes, I am familiar with the transitioning of their food and the possibility of runny poo and what have you.

Originally Posted by emilyann (Post 2527034)

You may be familiar with it, but that's hard on your pup to transition to a new food so fast. It's also hard on the pup to keep changing.

Originally Posted by Miao (Post 2527142)

Thanks to the both of you for your concern over my dog's diet and her overall wellbeing. I'm sure that this batch of Natural Balance is perfectly fine since so many YT'ers are feeding their little ones this and doing great. :)

I apologize for running on and getting carried away sharing my life stories with nearly every post. :eek: I need to curb that awful habit. :rolleyes:

Originally Posted by Wylie's Mom (Post 2526876)

Is there a chance you heard "Nutro", bc that would make a lot of sense to me, then.

Originally Posted by Ichabob (Post 2527420)

The pet smart here does not carry NB in their stores, and on their web site is not listed, so I am wondering how they would know if NB was recall. The pet plus store does carry it and they said they have not been notified of a NB recall .
so I am thinking it must be a different brand.
I also feed NB along with cloud star kibbles and have had no problems.