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What are your thoughts on Merrick's I'm a new Yorkie owner, and wanted to know what are the thoughts on Merricks dry/canned food? The ingredients sure look healthy, but before I buy, I would like to know how the expert's (all of you!) feel?! :confused: |
I am feeding Merrick's wet and my girls love it. With the petfood recalls I am keeping them on several brands and some hamburger and chicken as I don't trust any of them right now. Merricks looks like human food. So I am feeding Innova canned, Wellness canned Merrick's canned and Solid Gold kibble. All of them are quality foods. |
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i feed merricks grammy's pot pie and also their wet can food |
I LOVE IT . . and so does my little angels :thumbup: Great choice of doggie food. :) |
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I feed Merricks also. I buy a 5lb bag of whatever Merrick flavor dry I want and mix it with a 5lb bag of Canidae. Then as a treat - once a week I feed Merricks canned. Whatever flavor. Mine really like the Thanksgiving dinner, Granny's Pot Pie and they also like the Working Dog Stew BUT Izzy got diahrea after that one so I won't feed that again. It may be to rich for her.:D I love Merricks and Canidae. I won't feed anything else (unless of course there is a recall:( ) |
I alternate between Merrick's Dry and Canidae Dry. Both are excellent quality, but the only criticism I have with Merrick's is a higher volume of poop and it's very smelly. I don't notice that with Canidae. Both my boys love Merrick's wet food too. |
i started giving it to Layla and it gave her diarrhea |
I am in the process of switching Benji and Bella over to Merrick's right now. I wanted to switch them to Canidae but the closes place to get it is like an hour away from my house. Bella decided she liked the Merrick's and wont eat the other food. She will pick all of the SD kibbles out and just eat the Merrick's. I was feeding them Science Diet but I know it isn't the best for them. I tried Chicken Soup but it didn't agree with Bella's tummy so hopefully Merrick's does!!! |
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Their prices are good and they carry many brands. |
lexi gets merricks dry food only with homemade food |
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Neither of mine have a hard time with it. My smallest yorkie is 4 lbs and she gobbles it right up. Makes her actually chew her food :rolleyes: Cause she has been known to swallow smaller kibble whole :eek: |
I think merricks is a good food. I personally have not used it, but have heard alot of good things about it. |
Before I started homecooking, we fed it to Emma and she loved it. Never had any problems with it, and she was a puppy... All of their foods are for all life stages including the Puppy Plate and Senior Medley. |
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1. Did you just feed the dry to your puppy? Or, did you feed Merrick's canned as well? I'd really like to try some of their canned because the ingredients look so healthy. 2. Did you feel that the kibbles were too big for your puppy? Thank you so much! |
I feed Merricks canned puppy plate to my 5 month old puppy and Merricks Senior Dry to my 8 yr old boys. My puppy is very very small and the Merricks kibble is just too big for her so in addition to Merricks canned puppy plate, I give her Chicken Soup for the Puppy Lovers Soul dry food because it has very small kibble that even she can eat. Ask the pet store for a sample of Merricks dry if you are worried that she can't eat it. They often keep samples in the back and give it out only on request. My boys can only eat the Merricks Senior dry. I tried them on the canned but it had too much protein for them and was causing their PH level to be too high. |
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I want to add, that we had her on the Grammy's Pot Pie. My maltese was only 2.9 lbs when we got her, and she had no problems at all. In fact, I thought the kibbles were pretty small. Maybe it varies between the different kinds that they have or maybe it varies from bag to bag, but the size of the kibble we got (Grammy's Pot Pie) was tiny in my opinion. Before we got her, she was eating Natural Balance Venison & Brown rice, but we switched her because she did not like that food at all and the kibbles were huge! And, later on they were recalled. |
The canned food is very high in protein like drawlins was saying... In order to compare the amount of protein in a canned food to a dry food, you have to look at them both on a dry matter basis....If a bag of dry food says 22% protein, and then you look at a canned and see 9% protein, that does not mean that the canned has less. You have to convert the numbers... Take the amount of protein divided by the reciprocal of the amount of moisture and that gives you the amount of protein on a dry matter basis. Example: Let's say the canned food is 9% protein and it has 80% moisture.... Then take 9 (amount of protein) divided by 20 (reciprocal of 80-the amount of moisture) = 45% protein on a dry matter basis. Now, you can compare the can to the bag of food. So, as you can see, the canned has 45% and the dry has 22%. Remember, this is just an example. |
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I feed Lola the dry for breakfast, and the canned for dinner, but maybe I should mix them together? Did you mix the dry with the canned, or did you feed them seperately? I'm so sorry for all of the questions! I hope you don't mind?!;) I just feel that I have no idea what I'm doing sometimes when it comes to petfood! |
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I don't mix the dry and canned only because Lily will not eat it that way. I give her the canned food 2-3 times a day and then leave the dry food out for her to eat whenever she wants. |
We mixed the canned and dry together, and the grammy's pot pie has small kibbles :) |
Also, I would wet the dry with a little warm water. |
I only feed my baby Lee-Roy cooked chicken with grated carrots (cooked till very soft) with basmati rice, he eats 3 times a day and totally loves his meal times, sorry I can not help you on canned food as I am a lover of fresh food for my Lee-Roy |
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