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Papillons (Small breed dogs) - Need food advice - What do you feed?

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#1 ·
I have 2 papillons (8yr old girl and 5yr old boy) that currently eat Merrick dry and canned. I rotate between the trial size dry dog food bags - Cowboy Cookout, Grammy's Pot Pie, and Turducken. About a month ago an employee at a local pet store(not my regular) told me the 8yr old should be eating senior food and the 5yr old could too. So I bought them a bag of Merrick Senior Medley. It gave both of them the RUNS!!! So I brought it back to the pet store. They went back to their regular Merrick dry and canned - everything seemed fine... Then yesterday my girl had the RUNS again. She will be getting pumpkin with their food for now. They were fine for MONTHS on Merrick, I want to try a different food for them or maybe the Merrick Wilderness Blend (I heard it was good for dogs with sensitive stomachs).

The owner of my regular pet food store always gives me different sample bags of food when I go since she knows I give it to them as treats. They are a little picky... They won't eat Chicken Soup, Pure Vita, Canidae, or a blue bag (cant remember the name). My girl loved Addiction - La Porchetta. She could pick them out of the other samples I gave her as treats. They also seem to like the Royal Canin Labrador food (just as a treat).

I just ordered the different Orijen, Acana, and Merrick Before Grain trial bags, and a big sample pack/box online.

Is Addiction a good brand? What do you guys feed your dogs? Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

PS - Cost/money is not really problem since they eat so little
 
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#36 ·
We feed Honest Kitchen Force. When we fed it exclusively the four pound box would last my two (5# Chi and 13# terrier mix) about 2 months. So it was like $15-20 per month. Way cheaper than Ziwi!

We liked the HK and still feed it in addition to raw foods. Addiction's dehydrated is not as good quality as HK.
 
#37 ·
I just got back from vacation this weekend. While they were at my friends house (i dont know what they ate - maybe her dog's food - maybe the regular Merrick dry/canned foods that I gave to her for her dog) they got the runs and they also came home matted... And their neighbor was watching a few dogs also - those dogs had fleas (and I used to wonder why I paid so much for Comfortis - not anymore) This weekend they were back fully on Merrick BG Chicken dry/canned - and they did great - last night and this morning they had the BG Salmon dry/canned no problems =) I think I might try BG Chicken again tonight or BG Buffalo. They seem to have no problems with a daily rotation on the BG products. Small solid poops - no runs, vomiting, etc. - my boy used to have soft formed poops and my girl used to have huge solid poops - Not this weekend =)

The owner of the dog food store that I normally go to said it was fine to change their food and that I could also try the different brands for the different vitamins/etc that they each offer. I could use Chicken from one brand, Lamb from another brand, etc. As of this weekend they've been doing great on the Merrick BG Chicken and Salmon. After they go through the 3 different BG flavors I think I might try the different flavors/meats from different brands (I have enough samples - lol).

Does anyone think daily rotations is too much?

Below are the pics I took of the BG canned Chicken and Salmon - They ARE really watery, but after I read the can and shook it before opening it didnt look as bad, but still watery.

Merrick BG Chicken - unshaken


Merrick BG Chicken - unshaken


Merrick BG Chicken - shaken


Merrick BG Salmon - shaken
 
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