What should I feed my 3 month old Yorkie?

[Candy5198]

I saw that about the Wellness company. I think it was quite some time ago. I didn't realize that they had three though. If I'm not mistaken it was becasue of where they were getting a particular ingredient and they have since switched to someone else? I also saw that the company itself did not try to hide the mistake and right away owned up to it and pulled the items from the shelves. I totally understand why you would have switched if you were using it during the recalls, but based on everything i read about the incidents I decided to give them a chance. You can bet I'll be keeping lookout though! ( I kept the bag just in case lol)

[Watson0211]

hello im new to the thread. i have a two month old female yorkie that trys to bite me when i try to put her collar on or even brush her. what should i do to stop that?

[pstinard]

Originally Posted by Watson0211

hello im new to the thread. i have a two month old female yorkie that trys to bite me when i try to put her collar on or even brush her. what should i do to stop that?

Give her healthy low calorie treats and praise for good behavior. I use Pet Botanics Mini Training Rewards, but some people use cheerios, freshly thawed frozen peas, or green beans. Put a treat on the collar and let her eat the treat. That will help her associate the collar with good things. You should probably start a new thread, since this thread is old and about a completely different subject. Good luck!

[chestermama]

I would start changing after you have her home and settled in for a week or so, then do the transition over a week or so

[Teegy]

When I brought Tufty home I transitioned him with no problems to raw within a week so if you are comfortable making the transition over a week to a new and better food I'd do that.
You want to make sure your pup is getting lots of protein and fats for growth, so look to a food with not a lot of filler like potatoes peas beets rice corn or soy.
Don't know how you feel about raw, but that's another option and there folk on here who can recommend good brands of premade raw preparations for you as I'm in Canada.

[Teegy]

Originally Posted by lovespandp

You can donate it to your local shelter- I have done that with all Peanut's food trials before I found "the one"!

[BabieChloe]

I have tried 3 different food brands with Chloe and I think I have found the perfect food for her.. after all that trial and error. If you are choosing between blue buffalo and wellness.. I would definitely choose Wellness Complete Health (puppy). I have tried Merrick and Blue Buffalo small breed. The blue buffalo made chloe have an eating poop problem because she wasn't digesting it properly; she still had pieces of it in her poop. She was also extremely itchy when I fed it to her. The pieces are also really big for tiny mouths! When I switched her to wellness complete health puppy, the poop eating stopped and so has her itching. The pieces are really small too, so it's great for little puppies. The merrick.. the reason I dont give it anymore is because I found some black mold in their wet food.. so yeah, that's my opinion on their food lol.

[BabieChloe]

Originally Posted by Candy5198

First let me say By no means do I really know anything about dog food. But I found this website What’s Really in Pet Food
Which made me think it is all just gross. We chose blue buffalo for our puppy at 6 weeks. After about a week of transisitioning from the purina the breeder gave us he started having loose stools. But After another week or so they firmed up except he would go 5/6 times a day... (sometimes probably more than that I'm not kidding) and he doesn't eat very much. So I got to reading and turns out alot of people have trouble with blue buffalo causing diarreah. That made me think that the frequency of his going maybe was caused by the food and I decided to switch. I think blue buffalo is a very good quality food and some dogs do very well and some do awful. After reading like you are for about a week I finally decided on switching to wellness Core based on the fact that they use pepole grade food rather than wastes and my only complaint so far is that transitioning him is impossible because from day one he would pick out all the bits of wellness and leave the rest. I'm actually thinking I will have to throw away the blue buffalo cause he won't touch it.
He now poops twice a day!

I have to agree with you on the blue buffalo for sure! I did the same exact transition and wellness is the winner for sure. Chloe's poops were way too big for her size on blue buffalo and super stinky.. really a bad sign with the food. She did the same thing when I transitioned her, lol.. she would only eat the Wellness.

[Cobylover4life]

I have been feeding my 9 month yorkie natural and it has helped this picky yorkie eat