For those looking for a high quality, affordable and natural dry dog food you may want to consider one from Solid Gold. It's called Wolf King and is made from Bison and Salmon. No corn, soy, wheat, etc. All human grade ingredients, no growth hormones or antibiotics feed to the bison, salmon is wild caught. They make a larger size kibble and what they call "Wee Bits" for tiny mouths. My dogs love it! And the one with horrible allergies does fabulous on it. All the fosters love it too.
In addition to that, I feed a homemade diet. For those interested in the homemade diet but are a little intimidated by the making of it... consider Urban Wolf. It's a dry base that you add water, oil and meat to. It's completely grain free so my allergy dog has no problems with it. The fiber comes from other sources in the mix. I've priced it out and actually making the homemade diet is less expensive than some top of the line soft foods and is comparable with most high-quality commercial diets. It's easy too - I make the food once every 2 or 3 weeks and freeze it in several containers. I take out a container once a week and keep it in the fridge. That's the food for the week. It only takes about a 1/2 hour to make the batch of food. Less time that it would probably take to go to the store. --- In [email protected], "marsha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I personally don't give cottage cheese as a treat...and I don't like it myself, but I do keep it on hand for Pepper and give it to him as needed for his stomach. Vets have never been able to find out what is wrong with him, but sometimes he gets a real bloody slimy stool and the cottage cheese helps cure this. I normally give him like a tablespoon or two twice a day for 3 days for that. > Marsha > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: fudwmn > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 5:37 PM > Subject: [Chihuahuas] Re: Hi : Food > > > That's why I said "according to her." People need to make their own > decisions. I've never fed cottage cheese because I don't eat it > myself. I and many others use cheese for training treats though. I > use it for a jackpot reward. Others feed LOTS of cheese. I prefer > meat based treats, and use cheese as a jackpot when I don't have other > jackpots prepared. I think she was trying to say that large quantities > can cause the calcium/phosphorous imbalance. Now, for a Chi, how much > is large? I know that I do not know. But, her caution will cause me > to be more vigilant in preparing my meaty jackpots. > > I guess we can look at it like good tasting things for us, chocolate in > my case. I should only eat it in small quatitites, or it can be very > bad for my waistline. Wait, it already has effected my waistline! > > I too use rice and boiled chicken for sick dogs after a tummy rest, > which most vets I've talked to recommend. For really sick dogs, I go > to the prescribed diets. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/lOt0.A/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/MJOolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> " Lets talk about our wonderful little friends! Join today! " Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
