Hi, I have a 5 month old ddb and have recentley changed over to jwb puppy performance turkey and rice kibble.
I was just wondering if it's ok to give him the other flavours as well as the one iv'e got. He get's bored easily if he's fed the same thing. he was on iams and tripe but he had chronic sickness and diorrhea. The vet said it was to rich to feed this together.
advce needed please.

I would do what the vet said and feed one because you dont wont to upset his stomach.

I dont see why you cant rotate with the flavours,i know alot of folk who rotate different brands every month,to keep the boredom bug away and to make sure the dog is getting all the nutrients it needs,which is hard to do imo from 1 bag of food :) Anyway most brands have more or less the same ingredients in each of their lines,so i dont think you should have any major probs :)

Just keep a close eye on him :) How are you planning to do it,slowly mix the old flavour into the new,or change cold turkey?

thanx for the advice. i spoke to the vet yesterday and she said that it would be ok but not to change variety on a daily basis. Beings as he's loving the turkey and rice i'll stick with that and change flavour when and if he get's bored. He's soon to change on to the junior one for 6 month's plus, which i will gradually introduce. i wont be doing cold turkey.

Hi sorry i thought you meant changing his food onto different brands but if you are using the same brand, just different flavours then thats okay, but i wouldn't keep changing brands, you will just keep upsetting his digestion process.  Read some info on bloat, so try not to feed food with alph alfa in as this causes alot of gas in the stomach.

Warm regards Susan

hi frank. i am fealy wary of bloat. i met a lady not long ago who had a great dane, she done all the right things to try and prevent bloat and sadley her girl died from on it on xmas eve. I've just looked at the ingredients on the jwb and it contains alfalfa. now im really worried! Red's loving the jwb and he's doing well on it. Our vet said it was a good choice. I must admit he has been windy latley.
Tanya

My dog stunk to high heaven on jwb wind more like gale force (lol) took him off it onto naturediet and the gas masks came off ha ha

well trackie30 i cant go changing his diet again so it looks like it's time to invest in some gas masks LOL

M y vet told me trial and error with food my poor thing tried about six different brands before we found one to suit i know its not nice to keep changing their food but needs must as for the masks  a good investment (lol)

The amount of alfalfa added to jwb wouldnt even be enough to make a nutritional difference,lettalone cause bloat! :)

well i was advised from my vet to stop the jwb as i did cause slight bloat and the wind was horrific since the change in diet alls well but every dog is different what works for some is not nessecarily good for another therefore trial and error:)

Hi Frodo it can cause bloat because it creates alot of gas in the dogs stomach, if you put in google about bloat it will come up with all tried and tested methods on how to prevent it this is the reason i wouldn't feed jwb, my bullmastiff was on beta so i changed her because she was very windy and her stomach was larger than it should be, if you prest on her stomach you could feel her belly bubbling, bloat is something with large breeds should definitely know about.  Sorry to her about your friends great dane as some one else said it is very much trial and error, so if your dog is windy try another feed, mine is on wafcol hypo allerginic food as she is know where near as windy now or her stomach doesn't bloat, and i would always say look at the ingredients before you by food.  Also frodo people with nut allergys can have an allergic reaction by the smallest about of nut in food so it's got nothing to do with the amount the fact that it's in there is the point.

Warm regards Susan

One of my old girls had that problem with soya. Even the smallest amount made her tummy sloosh with gas like a half-filled hot water bottle. I always avoid anything with soya now, just in case.

the reason i thought jwb would be ok is because I had a chat with someone from the dogue de bordeaux club and they fed there pups on it. surely they're experts on the breed.

FTR i give my boxers alfalfa on a daily basis aswell as kelp,cant say i've ever had a problem.This is the first time i have ever heard of alf. causing bloat

No offence but any of the low quality ingredients in Beta could cause gas or more serious problems in dogs,as is evidenced from alot of dogs fed high grain,carb foods,such as soy,maize etc. :(

I'm not doubting that the alfalfa could have been a contributing factor in your dogs symptoms,but i can 100% guarantee you that there would be  a massive amount more of soy etc in the food compared to the  the trace amounts of alfalfa .

Susan i doubt you would have got many hits on google if you typed in 'alph alfa' ;) :p

oh my god im really confused!

oh my god im really confused!

why?

i want to do whats best for my boy. The vet said jwb was a good choice as did ddb club man. he's loving jwb whereas before he was so fussy. He is windy which i can live with , and i really dont want to keep changing his diet because 2 weeks ago he was hospiltalised for 2 days and one night for chronic diorhea because i added tripe to his food just to make him eat it. I now know i should only have done this now and then as a treat. I've got 3 other dogs a staffie jack russel and an akita that eat anything and very rearly get dodgy bellys. Surely lots of things contribute to bloat but if your carful and know the signs any food can cause bloat if you wasn't carefull

I have fed my 5 on all sorts of dried food but I have found JWB to be the only one which doesnt give them wind.  I use it now as a mixer with sausages or fresh meat and their coats are far nicer than they were on other dried food.  I find mine like the puppy duck flavour although I do rotate.  All my puppies leave being fed on it. 

All you can do is try your dog on it and see how you get on.

yeah i think i'll stick with it for now as all is well

Tou do what you think your dog likes all dogs differ so no-one can say it doesnt cause bloat and no-one can say it does each dog reacts differently ive said before you cant really get advice on what to feed you need to try a few and see which suits your dog :)

I definitely would agree with trackie, each dog is different one dog will do good on one food and another wont, ever dog is different like people, so just watch his stools and see how his digestion is coping with that particular food.  Just do alot of research on dogs diets and get your own views on them even better look at some of the threads on feeding, there's some really good experts on here who can tell you all the ingredients in most foods and alot about the manufactors.  Hi frodo i put bloat in google because i was reasearching that not alph alfa.

Warm regards susan

I have labs and I feed JWB about 75% of the time- I have no problems with it. Mine love the white fish and we don't have wind problems. I do have problems when friends or family give them treats from a well know "P" brand - now that causes typhones in the wind situation.

The other 25% of time they get fresh meat and veg and I have no problems given that I have one who had a delicate tummy.

It is trial and error - every dog is different. I know some people who have dogs who can eat nothing other than Chappie, and their dogs are healthy and happy.

my boy is on jwb on he has a lot of really smelly wind. After advice on this forum we are introducing him to burns to see if he does any better on that. You can get a sampl on the website. Hopefully that will work. Has anyone tried nutro as this was also advised?