Indy_Pendence  Offline
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| _Jules_ wrote: |
I think maybe until someone has a dog like this, they will never truely understand it, as you can apply all the Logic in the world, but if the dog is fed up with it's food/fancies a change, then there is precious little you can do to persuade it otherwise, other than starve it. And perhaps I am soft in the head, but I couldn't do that to one of my best and most loyal friends. |
I agree and it's so easy to just buy a different food that I dont see why I should struggle trying to persist with one he didn't want to eat. There are a number of foods which I tend to cycle through (Skinners/Barking Heads/Symply) - it's not as though I was getting through 10 different makes in a week! It's only a matter of clicking a different one on my vetuk order.
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| Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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i always thought every new food given to a dog will need to be gradually introduced to avoid any stomach upsets or anything that could be caused by a sudden change on its diet. to learn your dog cycles through with several brands of food makes me wonder otherwise. but i guess if it works for your dog, then well and good. each dog is different anyway. with ours, shes always had a good appetite, (and in between meals she also had several preferences along the way...grass when she was 4-5mos, leaves at 5-6 and at the moment it's twigs and pieces of wood along the fields. dont worry, she's only having them to chew on and not eat and i am not allowing her to chew on it more than 20 secs )so i guess i would not know what to do if i was in your situation. probably, i would do the same thing.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| t1weighted wrote: | | i always thought every new food given to a dog will need to be gradually introduced to avoid any stomach upsets or anything that could be caused by a sudden change on its diet. |
This can be very true if you have a dog who has only ever been given one type/brand/flavour of food. However, dogs evolved to be opportunistic omnivores, so they must have the ability to chop and change feeds at the drop of a hat or else they wouldn't have survived.
With my own dogs, who've been exposed to a variety of foods from young, I can change from Dried, to Tinned, to Raw and give them a different type of meal every meal time and it not cause any problems. The only dogs I had to "introduce" foods careful too were the two Guide Dog pups, as they were only allowed to eat their kibble and so they both had sensitive tums.
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Indy_Pendence Offline
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| Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 7:36 am Post subject: |
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considering the amount of really, horribly foul things Moss likes to eat when he gets the opportunity - swapping from one good brand of dog food to another is nothing 
I don't introduce treats/left overs slowly so why dog food? None of my dogs have ever been sensitive to any foods and I do think it's because I've varied their diet. (though I do quite understand that if you do have a dog which is sensitive and you find a food which works, you wouldn't want to change it)
They don't get pumped full of artificial flavouring/colourings etc, though, and the only time we've ever have food problems is when well meaning people give them cheap bright green/orange treats and wonder why they then go loopy for an hour! 
Angela
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