Best Canned Food?

[LolaMae]

Hey everyone, me and my gf have a 3 year old yorkie. My gf used to feed her dry dog food when she was a puppy, for about almost a year Lola had stayed with my gf's parents and they fed her human food, mostly potatoes, chicken. Move forward to now, she's staying with us again we continued her on potatoes and chicken, she got tired of it and is having bowel problems.

Today I got her Royal Canin Yorkie 28 and she won't even touch it. So I'm going to try canned food.

What would be the best brand/type food for her? I know its going to be trial and error but we want her on dog food.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by LolaMae

Hey everyone, me and my gf have a 3 year old yorkie. My gf used to feed her dry dog food when she was a puppy, for about almost a year Lola had stayed with my gf's parents and they fed her human food, mostly potatoes, chicken. Move forward to now, she's staying with us again we continued her on potatoes and chicken, she got tired of it and is having bowel problems.

Today I got her Royal Canin Yorkie 28 and she won't even touch it. So I'm going to try canned food.

What would be the best brand/type food for her? I know its going to be trial and error but we want her on dog food.

Potatoes and chicken are not a complete and balanced diet. Your dog is probably malnourished, dogs need way more calcium than a human does, so if you feed human foods you need to supplement with vitamins and minerals. I feed Joey RC and he loves it, it's made for finicky Yorkies, but if they are use to eating human foods, they will probably put up a fuss. I would put out a bowl for 20 minutes, and then take it away, 12 hours later I would put out another bowl, and do not feed any snacks in the meantime. Usually, all it takes is 12-24 hours to get them to eat the food. Your dog will not starve himself; he will eat when he’s hungry. Anyway, someone else can help you with the best canned food question.

[LolaMae]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

Potatoes and chicken are not a complete and balanced diet. Your dog is probably malnourished, dogs need way more calcium than a human does, so if you feed human foods you need to supplement with vitamins and minerals. I feed Joey RC and he loves it, it's made for finicky Yorkies, but if they are use to eating human foods, they will probably put up a fuss. I would put out a bowl for 20 minutes, and then take it away, 12 hours later I would put out another bowl, and do not feed any snacks in the meantime. Usually, all it takes is 12-24 hours to get them to eat the food. Your dog will not starve himself; he will eat when he’s hungry. Anyway, someone else can help you with the best canned food question.

that's exactly what I thought, chicken potatoe and peas was not enough. She would even eat just the chicken.

So I just got back from the pet store, tried the Royal Canin dry and she didn't eat it, put up Wellness Chicken and Sweet potato canned and she ate half. Going to try the Merrick Grammy Pot Pie canned later.

[chachi]

Mine eat chef Micheals and sometimes caesars. Its not the best but its what mine will eat. We dont give it to them as a meal anyway its more as a snack for Breakfast. They eat a premium dry food so I dont consider it so bad if they dont eat a premium can food.

[Britster]

Weruva canned is what we use here -- never met a dog who wouldn't touch. In fact, it looks so yummy, I want to eat it, LOL!

I agree with above though ^^ Nancy1999 is spot on.

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by LolaMae

that's exactly what I thought, chicken potatoe and peas was not enough. She would even eat just the chicken.

So I just got back from the pet store, tried the Royal Canin dry and she didn't eat it, put up Wellness Chicken and Sweet potato canned and she ate half. Going to try the Merrick Grammy Pot Pie canned later.

Oh good, I'm glad you found something she would eat. Remember even the worse dog food has to meet requirements for health, so it will be in all probability healthier than the food you were feeding.

[roseslevi]

Originally Posted by LolaMae

that's exactly what I thought, chicken potatoe and peas was not enough. She would even eat just the chicken.

So I just got back from the pet store, tried the Royal Canin dry and she didn't eat it, put up Wellness Chicken and Sweet potato canned and she ate half. Going to try the Merrick Grammy Pot Pie canned later.

Try and mix the kibble in with the canned. This is one way to get a fussy eater to eat the kibble. Sometimes I have heard of people adding a little water to the dry food. Hope this helps.

[jeane]

I use merrick// morgan loves it

[LolaMae]

score! So far she's like Natures Variety and Wellness but she ate more of Natures Variety.

Next on the list is Wanuva (no stores that were open today had it so tomorrow), and then Blue Buffalo.

She didn't eat Merrick's Chicken Pot Pie.

She likes chicken so I tried to stay with chicken as the main source

oh also, after she ate the Chicken and Sweet Potatoe canned from Wellness hers poop is back to normal!