Dogfood - The yorkie food?
 

Hi, I was wondering what kind og dogfood you feed your Yorkies?

I am using Royal Canin Yorkshire Terrier and am very happy with that. Is that a popular brand in the USA? If you use it, how do you like it?
Do you prefer some other brand?

I also feed my little mix (Leon) the Yorkie food too and he likes it.
I buy the food in 7,5kg (16.5lb) packaging, it is also available in 1,5kg (3.3lb) packaging but no size in between is available in Iceland.
Can you buy a bag that is in between, like around 3 or 4kg (6.6 - 8.8lb)?

Btw. how do I make the link on, for ex. the word Yorkshire Terrier, in my earlier post go away, I did not put the link on the word, it just came.

In an earlier post I tried to take the tick out of "Automatically parse links in text" option below when I was sending the post, the post then didn´t work, the message did´t go on the forum until hours later. I am not even sure what "Automatically parse links in text" means :embarasse
I am going to try now, to see if I can send this post witout ticking "Automatically parse links in text"

The link still comes :/

I feed Canidae Lamb & Rice All Life Stages.
All Natural

Try this link to find a better quality food for your FurBaby:
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_f...iews/index.php

The Yorkie in your Avatar has a beautiful long coat!

I feed Candiae as well.

I used to feed Royal Canine, but one of the main ingredients is corn (or maybe some other grain, I can't remember) and it made my Britney itch a lot. After I changed, she really stopped.

it doesnt have corn



you will see a lot of people on here use it. i have tried skoshi on tons of healthier dog foods and he will eat them the first time and then the next day doesnt want them. i have tried honest kitchen, Fromm, but he wont eat them now.

Yes it does have Corn
Corn Gluten Meal is CORN
Corn Gluten is what was in alot of dog food recalls.

Straight from the Royal cani website.
Ingredients
Chicken meal, brewers rice, brown rice, chicken fat, chicken, corn gluten meal, dried egg powder, barley, natural chicken flavor, cellulose, dried beet pulp (sugar removed), anchovy oil, dried brewers yeast, potassium chloride, soya oil, fructo-oligosaccharides, salmon meal, calcium carbonate, sodium tripolyphosphate, choline chloride, dried brewers yeast extract (source of mannan-oligosaccharides) , taurine*, Vitamins [DL-alpha tocopherol (source of vitamin E), inositol, niacin supplement, L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C*), d-calcium pantothenate, biotin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), riboflavin supplement (vitamin B2), thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin A acetate, folic acid, vitamin B12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement], magnesium oxide, borage oil, Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, manganese proteinate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], glucosamine hydrochloride*, L-Carnitine*, DL-methionine, marigold extract (Calendula officinalis L.), tea (green tea extract), chondroitin sulfate*, preserved with natural tocopherols (source of Vitamin E), citric acid and rosemary extract.

I switched Roxie from Royal Canin to Canidae All Life Stages and she loves it!

I have never seen my Yorkies love a food like Canidae!!!
I have one that is a very picky eater & doesn't eat very much.
He has actually gained a few ozs since on Canidae - which he needed.

Canidae All Life Stages
 

Canidae All Life Stages

I feed kikko Innova and he looooves its! and so do my parents dog who likes to go into kikko's playpen and steal a meal! lol.

but its great food, made of all human grade meat. i really couldn't decide between innova and candidae at first, i know both are good foods

Royal Canin food helps growing beautiful hair, but dries my baby's skin.
 

I feed Royal Canin to 3 of my yorkies before. Their hair grows long and beautiful, but I also found they have flaky skin since I start to use Royal Canin. One of my yorkies has really bad flaky skin, so I stop feeding him Royal Canin. I use Avoderm instead. After feeding him Avoderm, less than 5 days, I found it truly improved that. About 1 week or so, his flaky skin is gone. I also found his hair becomes softer. I was amazed how effective Avoderm dog food is. :D

If anyone's yorkie has flaky/dry skin, try Avoderm. You can see the result very soon.

Where do you get this AVoderm? My guy has flaky skin, but only in his ear (this is due to a previous skin infection/fungus) ...

recently i've used missing link and its helped a lot too .. but this avoderm sounds interesting ....:rolleyes:

Switched to Canidae
 

My Alyssa and Emily Kate were both eating Royal Canin Yorkshire food. They both seemed to love it and ate it well. Alyssa had a lot of allergies and scratched a lot. I read about Canide All Life Stages on YT and soon went on a search to find it. I discovered that several stores in my area carried it. I bought a bag ...hoping....but not really expecting the dogs to like it. They fought over it. Both loved the taste. I switched "cold turkey" and did not try to mix and ease into the new food. Within a week Alyssa's fur imporved. She had a shine to her fur and her energy level was like that of a much younger puppy. It has been 4 months now and I am still very pleased. I find it hard to believe what a change of food has done for my girls. I am sorry that I did not make the switch sooner.

Diesel has been on INNOVA for the longest time and does really well on it. :)

Royal Canin works for us!
 

:D Shelby & Seymour have been eating Royal Canin since we have had them. I have gotten some samples of Canidae that I have occasionally given them for "variety", but only a small amount at a time.
I really think RC has helped with their coats.

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We wish all YT'ers a nice Independence Day!

Wow I see that the ingredient in the USA Royal Canin food is so much diffirent from the Europe Royal Canin food. Here in Iceland there was no food recall, we receive the samt food as UK and Ireland and on their RC page I found this statement.
Here is the ingredients of the European RC Yorkie food:
rice, dehydrated poultry meat, maize flour, animal fats, vegetable protein, isolate*, maize, maize gluten, hydrolysed animal proteins, vegetable fibres, beet pulb, minerals, vegetable oils (soya, borage), fish oil, yeast, fructo-oligo-saccharides), taurine, green tea and grape extracts (rich in polyphenols), DL-methionine, egg powder, hydrolysed crustaceans (rich in glucosamine), L-tyrosine, L-caritine, hydrolysed cartilage (sourse of chondroitin)
ANALYSIS: Protein: 28% , Fat: 18% , Ash: 4.7% , Fibre: 4% etc.

Strange that the ingreditents are not the same!
It seems as the American factory and Europe factory are not making the same food?

I have never heard of the types of food that you are talking about, here you can buy Hills, Technical, Pro pac, Performance, Purina, Pedigree, Solid Gold, Arden grange.... but never heard of AVoderm, Canide and Innova.
Here Royal Canin is thought to be the best quality dog food and it has the biggest range (so many types to choose from). But I can not find it on http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_f...iews/index.php

I see that most of you use Canide, is it expensive?
Is it one bag for all breeds? No special for mini dogs?
It seems that Canide all life stages is for puppies, adults, mature dogs, small, medium and large dogs, is this correct?
I am very curious about this food because your dogs seem to like it so much.

and yes, happy Independence Day :D

Just switched from Hill Science Diet to Canidae and Chloe LOVED it!! She actually picked out the old food and leave it inside the bowl or on the floor and ate the new food! After researched for a while, I believe Canidae is a GREAT food to feed our babies!!

I ran into the same thing in taiwan ... over here we have eukanuba, RC, iams, nutro, purina, and that's all i can think of. but really bad food, nutro was the best we could find but it made my dog really itchy b/c of the corn. So you're prolly gonna laugh, but I buy dogfood while I'm in the states and bring it back with me to taiwan! LOL ... what I wouldn't do for my dog. haha. maybe a little much :rolleyes: oh wellz.

I see solid gold is offered in the iceland, that's a good food brand from what i've heard. its on the website you reffered too. i foud RC on the site for you.

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_f...ct=286&cat=all

It is not expensive at all, it is actually cheaper than RC!! 3 lbs of Canidae sells for US$7.99 in Pet Supply Plus (They dont sell it in PetsMart in US, sucks!!) and US$12.99 for RC!!!

It is one bag for all breeds, no special for mini dogs. The only difference is how much you are feeding them.

Yes, all life stages are for puppies, adults, mature dogs, small, medium and large dogs. It is on their websites why feed all life stages pet food...

"In nature your pets couldn’t choose between a puppy, kitten, or light formulation, only a diet of mainly meats and small amounts of grain. They simply eat more or less, depending on age and activity levels. CANIDAE and FELIDAE both contain more than 50% of high quality meat proteins. We have also included digestive enzymes that closely resemble those found in nature."

Check out their website and see where you can buy it in your country.

www.canidae.com

Shoot, I think they only sells it in the US and Canada...Not sure in Iceland...:-/

I live in a small town and the closest Petsmart is 60 miles away. I was at the groomers one day droping off my grandpup and just happened to look at the right spot and saw that the sold INNOVA so I bought it and little Lola LOVED it. She is so picky!

opps i didnt know it had corn gluten i thought it was wheat gluten that all the recalls were for.

I use to feed Joe Royal Canine, but he had very dry skin so I switched to Artemis puppy and canidae life stages. His skin has gotten so much better.

Petco just recently statred to carry Avoderm here in my town.

Just did a Google search on Maize & Maize Gluten - its Corn
Maize - also known as corn
Maize gluten - is a high protein substance. It is one of the byproducts of corn wet milling process.

Try Solid Gold Just A Bit Adult Small Breed - it is a top quality food, small kibble.
The Puppy formula is a larger kibble.
I had my 1st Yorkie on this till i got my 2nd puppy.

Has anyone here had their Yorkie on Canide for many years?
For ex. as puppy, adult and mature dog?

We have tried many kinds of dogfood.
For ex. we bought Eukanoba and did have a litter on that and the puppies were always rather fat and slow to start moving. Like they were "all soft" to the touch, not firm and strong. But they turned out ok.
But when we started to use Royal Canin the other litter (with the same combination/parents) and they seemed to develop better and were more firm and strong to the touch. More power in them. Better overall. First we thought maybe it was just a different outcome of the litter but after we started to get more powerful litters, stronger in the body, more muscular body, then we could see there was something about the diet that did matter.

We also noticed with the adult dogs that they became more firm (to the touch) and develop better muscle. Before on Eukanoba they were more "sloppy" in the body so they aquired much more movement to have them strong in the body for the dogshows.

With the mature dogs we saw changes to the better, some of them came to life...or you can say so...they became much more lively.

But the coat condition was the same on Eukanoba and RC, always very good.

But we would like to know more about this kind of food, like Canide, if it is having the same good effects as the European Royal Canin food. Because RC is so da** expensive. The small bag 3.3lb (1,5kg) is around 27.5$ and the bigger bag 16.5lb (7,5kg) is 105$ :question

We use Innova Small bites as well as the canned.It is 95 percent meat.
They love it.

I have only used it for about a month now.
Some others have used it for years on YorkieTalk.
maybe start a new thread on the topic:
Canidae - long time Users Help

thanks for the tip .. i just looked up avoderm, and it contains avocados ..... i heard from somewhere that avocados were bad for dogs :confused: anyone know?

help with Innova
 

I saw your post. I had a problem with my baby on nurto. we think all this time his weekly vet visits are from lamb. I switched to innova. BUT they gave me evo. It is higher protein then the puppy innova. Is this still o.k. for a 9 month old?
He seems to like it. cnadidae had lamb.
thanks
julie

hmm ... i feed the regular innova, i was worried that Evo might be too high in protein for my guy b/c he has had problems with soft poopies (sorry) and thought the high protein might upset his stomach. My dog didn't do well on Nutro b/c of the corn, it made him really itchy.

your vet gave it to you so i think it should be oky. just watch him and see how he is... like his poops, his behavior, any weird changes, and b/c its higher in protein you may be able to feed him smaller servings (i would check with your vet b/c this is just my assumption) ... my concern would only be if your pup needs to be on a low protein diet due to MVD or some other liver problem, but if he's a healthy pup, i don't see why not feed it to him, esp if he eats it and likes. :p as pple know with picky eaters. lol.

hopefully other YT members will be able to give you some more advice.