Merricks Puppy Plate
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| I've heard Merrick's is a very good quality food, but I've never tried it....
Mine did best on Iams. I'm currently feeding Pro Plan. |
| thanks Stacey and is ProPlan Iams or ? |
| No pro plan is a totally different brand name... |
Thanks your loverlies all look so great , I'll do some research on it as I want the best food for her  |
| My new Vet highly recommends the Merrick foods. He says the quality protien and all the fruits and veggies are excellent. I chose to go with Innova EVO instead, which he also recommended, because it is grain free and I've heard that eliminating grains could help reduce Chummie's inflammation. I am also not sure that EVO is tested and appropriate for puppies. I am mixing in Merrick cans with the EVO dry food. |
| I feed Merrick to my oldest girl. The ingredients are great and I've tried some myself. Not bad but could use some salt! In fact, Puppy Plate isn't even just for puppies. It can be fed to dogs of any age, at least the canned version says so on it. I fed the boys different flavors of dry Merrick food and they did okay on it but I found the pieces to be really small for their giant mouths and they left kibble everywhere. I switch between several high quality foods a few times a year after reading an interesting article that suggested using a few different foods helps to prevent allergies later as well as finickiness. Right now they eat Nutro Ultra. |
| I like Nutro Ultra. My dogs did really well on it but recently Chummie stopped wanting to eat it and that's partly why I switched them. . .
I like the idea of switching foods. I tend to think that dogs who only eat one thing are the ones that have the hardest time when they encounter something new. |
jean wrote: Thanks your loverlies all look so great , I'll do some research on it as I want the best food for her
Seriously though, if Dutch is doing well on Iams, I see no need to switch... all my dogs did fantastic on Iams. |
| Many, many years ago (I was in my early teens), when I first started to show Himalayan cats I had the most wonderful vet whose theory about food was "feed the absolute best you can afford and vary it." This was back in the early 70's when they were just beginning to do extensive research about animal nutrition. Her feeling was what one food formula might lack another food formula might possibly have. This was back in the days when taurine deficiencies in cats was very common. To this day I believe her theory is right. I feed my animals (cats, dogs, rabbit) the best food I can find and change brands each time I finish a bag or case. My last three cats have lived healthy lives past 18, my rabbit is 8+ years (old for a rabbit) and one of my cats is 17. Here is hoping Dudley & Oscar (OES), currently 3.5 years live to healthy ripe old ages. |
| How do you manage to do that without causing serious digestive upset? |
| Hi,
With the dogs, three or four days before my bag is about to run out I start mixing 50% old food and 50% new food. In the beginning we had some loose stools, but now that I've been doing this for about two years no problems at all at switch time. My cats have iron stomachs. They can eat anything with no digestive upset. Same thing with my rabbit! I currently switch between Royal Canin, Wellness and Nutro. Once in a while Oscar gets yeast infections in his ear, but that seems to be more related to swimming than food. |
| Hi,
I follow Kajochen's school of thought too! My dogs/cats have also experienced long lives as well. Cats that lived to 19-21 and dogs 15 to 17, Blue is currently 17 1/2 and has always enjoyed a varied diet. I think the trick is to do it as Kajochen said above..small mix at first and then increase it overtime so that eventually the new food is used. Panda and Blue never experience any problems with their diet, but Merlin, does have a more sensitive tummy so when I do it with him, I start off with a very tiny amount of new food. I have noticed he's getting better at a variety of food however, so I believe the introduction of a variety is actually helping his digestive system. He too has been getting less loose stools when trying something new. Merlin's breeder also suggested I give carrots as something for him to chew when he was a pup. It's amazing how the dogs view this as a great treat...yum carrots ...moms got carrots! Ha Ha. They eat get a daily carrot to munch on and you'd think it was the best liver treat they were getting instead. I also like giving my dogs the occasional salmon, cats too as it's wonderful for their coats. Marianne and the boys |
| thanks Ladies for your imput, I have started mixing small amounts of Merricks with her Iams and it seems to be going well, no stool problems .
I give Duchess frozen carrots to knaw (sp) on and she loves them along with bits of apple |
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