| Lorraine | 01-17-2006 12:58 PM |
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Originally Posted by Athina I give both my Yorkies 1 wet container of Lil Ceasar's to split every day and then i leave a full bowl of Royal Canin down for them to pick at throughout the day. They have never had a problem and they love it. My vet said that that's a great diet for them so i'm stickin to it.
| I am afraid your Vet doesn't know too much about Yorkie diets. On my puppy info sheets I give to people who got a puppy from me, I warn them about Caesar's and Royal Canin. I agree with the other post where the other Vets say no Caesar's. In my opinion, if you don't have problems now, you will with time. That's one of the problems when you may be feeding the wrong food, it can take a while before trouble hits and then it can hit big time when it does.
Royal Canin for Yorkies is allegedly formulated by nutritionists but I don't think they know Yorkies either. The protein level is way to high even for puppies. That is very hard on the kidneys/liver as high protein is hard to digest and the waste products in the form of ammonias from the break down of amino acids is hard on kidney/liver. Again, you may not see a problem right away but with time you likely will.
People on high protein fad diets are warned or should be, to drink a lot of water. the reason is to reduce the concentration of the toxins of the byproducts of digestion and flush them more efficiently. | 