By Anndee
Date 08.01.05 20:36 UTC
Does anyone have any opinions on this food. Its fairly new out and I am thinking of trying my 'problem youngster' on it.
she has a very sensitive digestion, is very prone to 'the runs' and at the moment is itching like mad. She's been on Hills Natures Best for a while on vets recommendation! Not my choice but I thought he'd know best. WRONG, I know! It didn't do a lot for her, so now I am trying her on a completely cereal free, back to nature, raw meat, bones, raw veg. etc. I have read lots of good things on here about natural feeding so thought it can't do any harm to try it, but I was a bit concerned though when I started to give the raw chicken wings! still am really if I'm totally honest
I really aren't sure anymore about complete foods but I was just interested to hear any comments about this one, as having read all the 'bumf' about it, it seems to be really quite good.
Thanks Anne
By Anndee
Date 09.01.05 15:29 UTC
Thanks for your responses.
This new feeding regime does seem to be helping her with her scratching. Its sems to be easing off a bit today. Thank goodness!! I would still like her motions to be a bit firmer but I know its early days. I'd still like her to have the bones to gnaw on, as I'm sure she will get the benefit from them and she does seem to really chew them well before swallowing them.
Archer, can you tell me which makes of raw chicken or lamb mince will have the bones ground up in them please. I am using AMP Prize Choice mainly. Do they grind up bones in their brands?
She has had a raw beef rib bone today. She had to work on that one, which was nice to see.
If anyone has any other suggestions on feeding raw food I'd appreciate the help.
She is a 17 month old Tibetan Terrier, by the way, and is quite a wooze so that probably doesn't help if she has a nervy tummy to boot.
As I say its all new to me, and I don't want her to be lacking in something that I maybe should give her, but I am trying to keep additives and variance to a minum at the moment just to try and eliminate any reactons she may have.
Just out of interest, does anyone else have this sort of problem with any of their dogs?
Could there be any tests done, do you think, by a vet to see if her digestive system is up to scratch?
She seems to be so sensitive to so many things. Even when I started to wean her with the other puppies, her motions weren't right then, on James Wellbeloved puppy. All the other puppies wwere fine but hers were on the loose side then. I swapped her onto Nutro puppy. that was fine for a while, then loose again. And its been trial and error ever since with complete foods. She's never been fed what I call cheap supermarket foods. Always the good quality: ie Burns, Nutro, Gelert and Wafcol, salmon & potato, which seemed quite good, and then the Hills from the vet, but I've lost trust in so many thats why I thought, go for raw & natural.
I'm even keeping a feeding diary now for her. So I can check how she reacts. The old memory isn't reliable at my age:-)
Why can't she be like her mum, who can eat anything without problems.
Sorry to go on and thank you again I relish any help or suggestions