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What is the best food brand for Yorkies :animal-pa Hey everyone. New yorkie owner here. Having problems with my 7 week old yorkie eating. Been feeding him Pedigree Little Champions chicken flavored soft food. After he eats he throws up small amount of food. Wondering if he is eating too much or it I need to change brands. What is a good brand? Thanks! |
I feed Teddy Royal Canin starters and he loves it |
Hi hun, I give mine Wysong....solid food and Merrick canned food (they have great flavors....and I also buy Solid Gold Freeze dried Buckaroo Beef patties to just chop up a little and put in their food. They LOVE it! |
I love Solid Gold Wee bits, Verus, Candidae and California Natural. I also add some plain boiled chicken and smidge of non-fat plain yogurt and Georgie loves it. |
I give mine Royal Canine. Yours shoukld be on the Royal Canine Baby dog food, for puppies up to 10 weeks. At his age you will need to add water or chicken broth to the dry food. You can give him a small amount of canned food twice a day, but if you are giving him stricktly canned food, you may find it hard to switch him to dry food later. And that may also be the reason he is eating too much and then vomiting. But if you have switched foods, that would cause it also. You have to change foods very gradualfly for these li9ttle guys. However ANY FOOD is better than NO FOOD. |
I just changed Sophia over to Wellness..She really likes it... The wet and dry puppy food has very good ingredients :) |
I feed my two boys Merricks dry food (Cowboy cookout or Grammy's Pot Pie). I also feed Snickers Royal Canin #30 for fussy eaters, because he gets tired of Merricks and then refuses to eat. But he never refuses the Royal Canin. I've just been reading about Natural Balance dog food. ConsumerSearch rated it the best food you can buy for your dog (aside from making your own homemade dog food). I'm thinking of giving it a try. Has anyone else tried this? |
I feed my yorkie Nutro Choice....but which ever food you decide to feed your baby make sure it does not have corn because it could cause skin allergies on your baby..... |
i feed mine the nutro max for puppies dry, no wetting. he eats it fine.... |
I feed Lady Nutromax puppy dry also.... |
I feed mine Nutro Ultra |
lexi eat merricks now... |
I feed my 2 PICKY PICKY eaters Chicken Soup for the Puppy Lovers Soul and Canidae All Life Stages (both dry food) mixed together with Missing Link supplement. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Any dog foods on this list are excellent foods. You could try some of them out and see which one your little furbaby likes best. This is the 5-star list off the Dog Food Reviews website. Don't feed any foods off the 6-star list, as they are too high in protein for our little ones. |
I feed mine Purina Pro Plan Small Breed Formula dry food. The pieces are very small, so he can chew them fine. Vet say that 2 out of 3 meals should be dry food. I know Yorkies are picky eaters, but if you start by feeding them one by one in the mouth, they eat. |
As your pup is very young, his mouth is probably small. So, I'd stick to a dry food where you can get very small kibbles. Royal Canin has a small breed puppy formula that has small bites. Royal Canin is a good food, but definitely not the best due to it containing corn and wheat products. The super premium foods that you can find in pet stores are Natural Balance, Merricks, Innova, Solid Gold, and Eagle Pack. Solid Gold has a wee bits formula where the bites are really small. This is what Sissy eats (when she nibbles at her kibble). She also eats the Natural Balance meat roll (looks kind of like sausage in a plastic casing). I have heard from a rep from Natural Balance that they don't have a specific puppy formula because their food is so nutritionally good, that puppies would just eat a little more of it and that is the only real difference between puppy and adult formulas. I agree that ANY food is better than NO food, but if you can find a better brand that your pup will eat, hopefully he will be healthier because of it. Good luck and switch over slowly. |
Thanks Thanks everyone. Went to the vet today who asked me to switch to Science Diet for Puppies Lamb and Rice-what do you guys think? Thanks |
I dont know why Vets recommend that food it is not one of the better foods. My vet recommended it too. Mine eat royal canin |
We started with Royal Canin puppy and then went to Nutro Lamb & Rice to get Magic off of chicken products. But last week the vet switched Magic to a vet diet called DCO for stomach issues (colitis - sp??) and so far so good....but Magic is no longer is allowed any treats or people food at all. Sailor is so easy....she eats whatever Magic is on and eats well!! Nutro is not on the best food list, but at the time our vet said what others have said.....some food is better than no food....so we stayed with Nutro for about a year. |
I feed my clan of picky yorkies chicken soup for the puppy lover's soul,with flax seed added,also i do a daily liquid vitamin the so far in my 8 yrs have had no health issues:) |
Vets and Science Diet I was told by a vets wife that they back Science Diet because they pay for some of their schooling. I do not know how true that is but I can't see any reason for her to lie to me. I research alot before I got my last baby and decided on Innova. The vet always made the coment that she had never seen such a strong little guy. |
I fed Max science diet small bites because it was vet recommended and I didn't know better. Now I feed my dogs Natural Balance and they love it. Although a vet told me I should have Alphy on small dog food and Abby on big dog food??? I didn't notice that NB separates the two. Anyone? I also just notice that they came out with a RAW formula which I might try. Has anyone heard of MMillenia? My friend just put his Lab on it but I'm not sure it's a good one. |
A switch is a good idea. It won't be hard to find a food better than Pedigree. All of the above mentioned are good. The only questionable one is Purina Pro Plan, make sure you get the Select formula which doesn't have any corn or by products in it. Science Diet isn't a horrible food, but there are better ones out there - just looking at the ingredients, there are no by-products, but it does have corn. I feed Nutro Natural Ultra, but also like the ingredients in Chicken Lover's Soup, but it's not available here locally. |
Gracie has decided to go on a food strike for the last two days. She used to like the Merricks canned, but not now. I have tried every flavor of Merricks, Natural Balance, Iams,...The only thing she will sort of eat is ProPlan Puppy formula, canned. And that is with a lot of doctoring. My vet suggested ProPlan. For now I have decided to use the ProPlan canned, and mix in bits of the Chicken Soup and Royal Canin dry, and give her nothing else other than different Iams sauces and an occassional tid bit of canned cat food or cheese (she will eat that) to give her variety. I'm thinking I might have changed her food one too many times? I'm supplementing with NutriCal too. I have tried mixing in scrambled eggs, cooked meat etc., she just turns her nose up at that. She is fine otherwise, drinking, playing, peeing and pooping. I hope she gets over this phase soon! |
I feed mine with royal canine |
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I feed Chicken Soup to EVERYONE. That is even what baby Tia is eating now. Everyone seem to like it :) |
I feed Bruce Innova small bites and I highly reccomend it. It is a great natural blend, and he loves it. Other brands I like are Solid Gold, Canidea, and Wellness. |
I feed mine Royal Canin |
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Hello I saw ur comment and i was wondering if its ok to feed my 9 wk old puppy solid gold wee bits??? I have the solid gold for puppies but he doesnt eat it ...Let me know thanks......:D |
Is it ok to change foods so often??? Hello, I am a new yorkie owner and I was just wondering if its bad to change there food for example from one day to the next?? I have a 9 wk old puppy who has been itchy a lot so I did research and found he might be allergic to corn products in the food so I changed his food to the solid gold for puppies and he doesnt like it so I am thinking of getting the Nutro Ultra/Max but how long should i wait?? do i mix it in?? Let me know PLEASE!!!!:( |
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