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I have 2 yorkies. Both had loose stool awhile ago. They were eating wellness turkey and sweet pot.. . Very loose stool. So frustrating. Finally got stool on the ID. Today they are still on ID I started Royal Cain sensitive stomach but read some complaints about that food. Now im scared to use that. The ingredients in the food don't sound healthy yet I hear royal canin is a good food. What do you all think . I haven't used a lot of different foods. Did chicken and rice, boiled beef and rice the vet said to do, tried pure vita, loose stool, back on ID. Thanks for your time and help. Sorry if I asked this on the wrong posts

I love Royal Canin they have lots of vets on staff and put a lot of research into their food. It takes dogs a few weeks to get used to a new food.

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Thank you love to dream. You have been so faithful answerIng my food questions. Im going to start back feeding the mini royal canin sensitive stomach food. They really like the taste. Hopefully there will be two happy healthy yorkies.

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Thank you love to dream. You have been so faithful answerIng my food questions. Im going to start back feeding the mini royal canin sensitive stomach food. They really like the taste. Hopefully there will be two happy healthy yorkies.

I couldn't find royal canin sensitive stomach ingredients, but all the royal canin line is rated low by both dog food analysis and dog food advisor. In my opinion, it is way overpriced for the quality of ingredients. I don't think it is harmful to any dog, but there are better options. Wellness is top rated, but mine got loose stools too (different formula than you tried) so what a dog will eat and do well on is important.

Generally, you should look for a food without by-products (I believe RC is no longer using chickenbyproduct meal but not sure, also without corn or wheat which I believe is still in RC.

I'm feeding Blue Buffalo Life Protection now, but mine does not have a sensitive stomach in general.

Dog food advisor is done by a human dentist. He only rates by ingredients not by quality control, food trials, and so on. There is actual vets and research that go into their recipes. Blue buffalo has lost many lawsuits about lying what is in there foods. They also have very bad quality control and many dogs have gotten sick because of to many life source bits being in the food. They might be rated high by ingredients only but not a trustworthy company.

If they have good stool on the ID, and that's what the vet recommends...then why are you not just keeping them on this...?

I'm not a fan of Royal Canin - way too many allergens etc for dogs, and I don't really respect their business model at all. But if a certain RC diet DOES work for a particular dog - then by all means, feed it.

We use Taste of the Wild. It works well for us.

Same thing happened to us when using Wellness, switched to Welcome Home (get it at choice pets) and have not had any issues since. Not a fan of RC either.

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Been looking at various healthy foods. What foods are good choices. My 2 are eating royal canin mini sensitive stomach. Ingredients start with Chicken meal, brewers rice, chicken fat, corn gluten meal, brewers rice flour, beet pulp, natural flavors, wheat gluten......
Is there too many grains in this food. My one dog has soft stool. Is it this food?

Have you thought of just keeping them on the prescription ID?

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I'd like to give them a dry food along with the id. That id is very expensive. I could cut back on the I'd and they could eat the dry. What are you all feeding yorkiès with sensitive stomachs.

Honestly, you need to follow what the vet says. If the vet says "ID for now" -- then do that.

If it were me, I would use the ID for a SOLID 2 MONTHS, at least, before changing or adding a thing.

Otherwise, how will you ever resolve this soft poo issue if you keep adding new things?

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You also mentioned that cost was a concern as you thought ID is expensive. However, sticking with ID in the end will be a lot less expensive than wasting money on other foods that don't work out and racking up vet bills.

Wet food is actually better but I believe they have ID in dry food.

:thumbup: very true

Yes, they make a dry version of I/D too. Here is a link to the varieties that they have at chewy.com (including wet and dry): https://www.chewy.com/s?query=hills+...submit-button=

The OP may be able to get it cheaper on Chewy, especially if they take advantage of free shipping. However, I believe that since it is a prescription food, the vet will have to provide the prescription so the OP can get the food from Chewy. I would run these past the vet first to make sure you get the correct type of I/D food.

From the Chewy website:

"Special Note: Hill's Prescription Diets require a veterinary prescription. This product will not be shipped until a copy of a valid prescription authorization is faxed to 1-800-619-7973 or e-mailed to rx@chewy.com."

We had lots of issues with our little Tosh. He had terrible stools while on Royal Canine. This is what the breeder used and suggested we stick with, but all along our boy as a puppy struggled with loose bowel issues. At times dry foods worked to help some but within a month or so he would go back to having loose stools with blood and the smell was terrible. Many baths!!

So he is now on (Hills ID low fat can) prescribed by the internal medicine vet for dogs. We use the (Original low fat) the stew he just would not have!
We went through months trying to help Tosh he lost a lot of weight. But after tests they finially found he had chronic pancreatitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

He now is doing great on this prescription diet food as long as he doesn't get anything from the table. He also takes 1/4 Metoclopramide 5mg tablets. One in the morn and one before bed. Peptide 1/4 nightly.
So finially we are so glad to find there's such a food that helped our boy!

Hopefull you will find the right food too. All our other babies seem to do well on Hills dry kibble.
Science diet for toy breeds. Little YORKIE on the bag. They love it dry or at times with some baby food chicken as a side. These guys have all been finicky eaters too.😳

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Thanks for your replies. I've been feeding the Id wet food since feb. No change on that. Im giving a little bit of dry royal can in mini for sensitive stomachs. My problem is I read stuff on line about both of these foods . We all want to feed the best to our dogs. I took Daisy for shots and wound up buying a bag of science diet I'd dry. Got it home looked at the ingredients and took it back. At least royal can in has chicken meal as 1st ingredient, not rice.
I really respect what dog lovers say on this site so I will do that and quit reading other negative reviews

Prescription food is different you can't just look at the ingredients and judge them like that. What is good for certain health issues might not be what you think is good. You can't believe in all that hogwash about ingredients. My three are on the Royal Canin Hypoallergenic and it doesn't have meat in it, it has a man made meat.