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Food Discussion & Information / Re: Switching Dog Foods, Advice?
« on: July 29, 2008, 08:41:50 pm »
The standard is to switch gradually over 10 days, with a 10% change per day. So the first day, you would feed 90% old 10% new, the second 80% old 20% new, and so on until you get to 100% new. So you had the right idea, but you need to do it over a slightly longer period of time.
I think that the quality of food involved is more the issue than your method of transition. You'll read a lot on BPO about quality foods. Purina really isn't a great food, so if you're open to a more high quality food I would reccomend it and we can deffinately help you find a better one that is still within your budget.
But purina is actually a better food than ol roy, which is probably the worst dog food on the market. Ol roy is almost all filler that passes right through undigested, so his stomach probably needs time adjusting to actually having things to digest. There's a product by eagle pack called holistic transitions that is supposed to help aid with food transitions that you could try (I've never tried it myself).
Ideally I think the best thing you could do would be to switch more slowly to a higher quality food, and I probably wouldn't use a lamb formula unless he has shown an intollerance to beef and chicken formulas.
I think that the quality of food involved is more the issue than your method of transition. You'll read a lot on BPO about quality foods. Purina really isn't a great food, so if you're open to a more high quality food I would reccomend it and we can deffinately help you find a better one that is still within your budget.
But purina is actually a better food than ol roy, which is probably the worst dog food on the market. Ol roy is almost all filler that passes right through undigested, so his stomach probably needs time adjusting to actually having things to digest. There's a product by eagle pack called holistic transitions that is supposed to help aid with food transitions that you could try (I've never tried it myself).
Ideally I think the best thing you could do would be to switch more slowly to a higher quality food, and I probably wouldn't use a lamb formula unless he has shown an intollerance to beef and chicken formulas.