What dog food for a sour stomach

[Foxeysquirrel]

I will be getting a yorkie puppy around Jan. 21st. I found this list of dog foods that have been reviewed. I decided to go with Orijen Puppy food has anyone tried it?

Thanks,

Teddi

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[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by Foxeysquirrel

I will be getting a yorkie puppy around Jan. 21st. I found this list of dog foods that have been reviewed. I decided to go with Orijen Puppy food has anyone tried it?

Thanks,

Teddi

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I would keep the puppy on what the breeders is feeding them for a few months to make the transition to a new house easier.

[mimimomo]

Originally Posted by rgadams

You are right she does like to eat and is a little over weight, should be 5lbs. We are feeding her Purina light. We take her on a mile walk once a day. Because she was confined to a crate the first 9 months of here life she has not learned to play. She does do a lot of tricks. She has had the stomach problem from the time we purchased here, 14 months ago. The vet said there is nothing wrong with here many small breeds throw up in the morning.

If she throws up bile early in the morning, it might simply mean that her stomach is empty. Feeding her a little snack b4 bedtime should solve this problem.

[Foxeysquirrel]

I thought I'd gradually mix in the OriJen to get her use to this brand as it's rated really high. I was also shocked at brands that I thought were so good were not so good.

[Lovetodream88]

Originally Posted by Foxeysquirrel

I thought I'd gradually mix in the OriJen to get her use to this brand as it's rated really high. I was also shocked at brands that I thought were so good were not so good.

I would still wait to do that for at least a month it is very stress full for them to go to there new homes and to much stress can cause them to not eat or get sick.

[Foxeysquirrel]

Thanks so much for your wonderful advice and I can always switch later.

[rgadams]

Just an update she has been eating the good dog food for about three weeks but she still had stomach problems we now give her about a tablespoon of cultured yogurt it does the job

[Zoey Zendaya]

Pumpkin helps too for troublesome days

[Wylie's Mom]

So she is throwing up only in the mornings? This can mean that she is going too long btwn eating / having something in her stomach. What you should try is giving her some treats right before bedtime, as late as possible, and see if that helps at all.

Does her stomach bother her besides this at all? If so, I'd be concerned about ulcers or reflux and whatnot. For that, there are meds that can help.

[yorkietalkjilly]

Originally Posted by rgadams

You are right she does like to eat and is a little over weight, should be 5lbs. We are feeding her Purina light. We take her on a mile walk once a day. Because she was confined to a crate the first 9 months of here life she has not learned to play. She does do a lot of tricks. She has had the stomach problem from the time we purchased here, 14 months ago. The vet said there is nothing wrong with here many small breeds throw up in the morning.

Sounds like my Tibbe. He was caged outside under a shed his first 9 months of life when I got him and he loves to do his tricks - such a cute little ham. But about age 3 - 4 years, he began vomiting or spitting up foamy bile and temporary anorexia -not eating all day, sleeping a lot. Liver and other blood tests were always normal. Ellie May/Crystal, a vet-to-be here on YT, told me that he could have "normal" routine liver studies and still possibly have liver shunt or MVD(microvascular dysplasia), both liver conditions that cause nausea and lethargy, head rubbing, diarrhea at times, itching - though all Tibbe had was the occasional nausea at first. Later I realized he would scratch his face/rub his head against the corner of the wall or the furniture quite a bit and always had as long as I had him.

Anyway, Crystal recommended get a fasting Bile Acids Test done and his vet agreed and did it. His Bile Acids were high so he had further testing and it was decided he had no liver shunt(so thankfully, no surgery) but he likely did have MVD(takes a biopsy to actually diagnose it for sure but that wasn't recommended by his vet radiology specialists who did his special testing and examined him) and needed to be treated conservatively with a change to a hepatic diet.

He was put on Hill's I/D Hepatic and I have to half that with Hill's I/D GI as giving him straight hepatic makes him itch a lot. But he immediately stopped the spitting up yellow bile and head rubbing and lost all his lethargy and temporary anorexia - he's back to eating normally, being feisty again, busy driving me crazy. I'm so thankful to have finally found out what was causing his spitting up and sleeping a lot, loss of energy and having him back to his old self.

Any time you have a dog that keeps having nausea, you probably should get around to having BATS done(test isn't expensive) and just see if the bile acids are high, indicating a possible problem with the liver and maybe easily remedied by nothing more than a simple diet change.

Here is a link to a website that tells you more about liver shunt/MVD.

Portosystemic Shunts FAQ

[Teegy]

No offence but that isn't a very good quality food at all. If you have your heart set on kibble there are much better ones out there, Orijen, Acana, Now, Go, Blue just to mention a few, but I don't know what's available in the US

[sandy simpson]

I like Wellness . My boys eat the super 5 mix complete meal. I mix a little chicken wet from Wellness and they love it. This is a high quality food recommended to me by a vet's wife who shows poodles. They all eat it and have beautiful coats. I really like this food.

[Foxeysquirrel]

We do have all those wonderful brands of dog foods you mentioned in the US. Orijen is rated 5 stars while Purinia Light is rated 1 star.

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Read the 1st six ingredients in Orijen:
Boneless chicken, chicken meal, chicken liver, whole herring, boneless turkey, turkey meal.
OR
Purina Light's first six ingredients are:
Whole grain corn, soybean hulls, meat and bone meal,whole grain wheat, soybean meal, soybean germ meal, corn germ

Think of it this way which one would you rather eat?

[Foxeysquirrel]

I hope this will also help. This tells you what is in the food.


Purinia Light
The first ingredient in this dog food is corn. Corn is an inexpensive and controversial cereal grain. And aside from its energy content, this grain is of only modest nutritional value to a dog.
For this reason, we do not consider corn a preferred component in any dog food.
The second ingredient is soybean hulls. The hulls are the skins of soybeans and a waste product remaining after processing soybeans into oil and meal.
Soybean hulls are often used as inexpensive fillers to dilute the energy content of various animal feeds.
We consider soybean hulls a lower quality pet food ingredient and of little nutritional value to a dog.
The third ingredient lists meat and bone meal, a dry “rendered product from mammal tissues, including bone, exclusive of any added blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents”.1
Meat and bone meal can have a lower digestibility than most other meat meals.

[Foxeysquirrel]

Origen This was all taken off the DOG FOOD REVIEW SITE
The first ingredient in this dog food lists chicken. Although it is a quality item, raw chicken contains about 80% water. After cooking, most of that moisture is lost, reducing the meat content to just a fraction of its original weight.
After processing, this item would probably account for a smaller part of the total content of the finished product.
The second ingredient is chicken meal. Chicken meal is considered a meat concentrate and contains nearly 300% more protein than fresh chicken.
The third ingredient is chicken liver. This is an organ meat sourced from a named animal and thus considered a beneficial component.
The fourth ingredient lists herring. Herring is a fatty marine fish naturally high in protein as well as omega 3 fatty acids, essential oils needed by every dog to sustain life.
The fifth ingredient is turkey, another quality raw item. After processing, this item would probably account for a smaller part of the total content of the finished product.
The sixth ingredient includes turkey meal, another protein-richmeat concentrate.