new yorkie owner, would love opinions on food please! :)
 

Hello everyone :)

My puppy, Stella, will be 10 weeks old this week. Her previous owners gave me a bag of Beneful puppy food to feed her but after doing some research I read that it can be harmful to dogs.
Im currently feeding her Science Diet puppy food but I was wondering if this was a good brand for yorkies?
What do you recommend? :)

Thank you! :animal-pa

I am currently feeding Wellness, which I really like and the dogs do well on it. I mix it with some Nature's Variety Instinct Raw, but only because Lexi is a picky eater and this is the only way to get her to eat all of her food. Just keep in mind, that you don't want to do a lot of food changes at this age. Is can really upset their tummies. I would stick with what you are using for 2-3 months before thinking about switching again. Congrats on your new pup!

great advice! I really appreciate it. thank you :)

I wouldn't change yet either, tummies are too sensitive and when you do do it over at least a weeks time or even 10 days. wellness, solid gold, acana are a few good foods among many others

Fromm is a very good brand - family owned and operated in house with no recall history.

Farmina is another great brand but is little hard to find in stores since it is fairly new to the states but i really like their ingredients on their products - all of their dog food has fresh meat as the first ingredient and second ingredient is dehydrated meat which i really like because dehydrated meat really holds the nutrients since it isn't cooked and this is only kibble that i found so far that has dehydrated meat as a first or second ingredient.

Brands I like: Primal, Natures Variety, Natures Logic, Orijen/Acana, Solid Gold Wee Bits, Wellness.

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I feed wellness complete health my Jojo likes it

I feed Vital Essentials pre made RAW, I also like Honest Kitchen, Primal Freeze Dried RAW and Stella & Chewies Freeze driec. As for Kibble I like Fromm and Orijen

I feed mines Royal Canin

There are plenty of nutritionally sound dog foods out there. I feed my Yorkie Fromm right now but I fed him Royal Canin when I first brought him home. He did fine on the RC but never finished his food, which some may see as good but the fact that he's less than 2.5#'s made me want him to eat everything I put in his bowl. Find what your pup responds to best, but seeing as how she's so young I would keep her on whatever the breeder had her on for at least another month. Did ur breeder give you any of her old food?

I feed my puppies Royal Canin Puppy and they go to new homes on that.

If you are going to change I would suggest a gradual change. Start with 75% of the old food and 25% of the new food for at least a few days. Go to 50-50 for a while and then 25-75 before weaning them off completely. This will reduce the tummy problems

Been using Wellness Core small breed formula, never had a problem

Feed what you like but imo the first 5-6 ingredients should be good foods. Bad =Ground yellow corn, chicken by-product meal, corn gluten meal, whole wheat flour, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), rice flour, chicken, soy flour, water, propylene glycol, powdered cellulose, sugar,
Better =Salmon, Duck Meal, Potatoes, Pea Flour, Sweet Potatoes, Duck, Chicken Fat, Dried Tomato Pomace, Salmon Meal, Dried Whole Egg,
Research =http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/

Keep in mind this is opinion of "Dog Food Advisor" who is a human dentist .....he admits he does no research, does no reporting on quality control/recalls, just uses information on each brand he looks at....what HE considers as "bad ingredients" is like a vegan saying all meat and dairy products are bad for you....that is opinion based on what THAT person considers "bad", not necessarily what research has shown to be part of a balanced healthy diet. Advocates for Raw, swear there is nothing better for your pet than good old raw food! Advocates of home cooking assure you there is nothing better for your pet than home cooking! Then you have all the commercial dog food advocates.....some go with scientific research, evidenced based results on how a dog food performs for their pet. In my years of growing up and all my pets, some have been raised on nothing but table scraps, some have been raised on baked chicken breasts and mixed veggies and did fine. Some have eaten nothing but Purina, some have eaten nothing but Alpo, some have eaten GRAVY TRAIN and did fine!!! All lived to be old, healthy dogs! I can tell you one thing for certain....we NEVER had the teeth issues/tarter problems with my dogs that I see now in everyones dogs.......! Then there are the issues with cancers, liver problems, kidney problems, etc....some is genetic but we cant blame sloppy breeding on all these issues..... We all want to do what is the best for our pups....what works for some, and works exceptionally well, may not be anything the next person considers good. You have to decide what is in YOUR opinion, based on whatever YOU consider qualifying attributes, what is best for YOU and your pup! There are TONS of information posts, based on individual opinions, on dog food here on YT. You MUST do your own research , based on what YOU find.....remembering that the recommendations for any particular type of food, will be skewed towards THAT source's preferences. If you stick to scientific research/results, you will avoid opinions and individual preferences! Then you decide what you want to feed.