exactly on the switching foods. i switch often with no problem you eat mcdonald's and you get sick. you eat something of quality and you don't. not difficult to grasp. same with the animals. they have to adapt themselves to tolerate the old roy/ science diet grade of food without getting sick, so changing from one to another will have bad results.
i'm not quite a fan of nutro either, but it sure beats the hell out of science diet On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote: > My dog gets Nutro, lamb and rice I think. It seems like good stuff, he > likes it. > > Science diet is a mega scam as is anything with "beet pulp" which is a > residue left over from making sugar. Its a filler and nothing more and many > dogs are allergic to it. > > Natural Balance is good stuff, we get it sometimes and Petco frequently has > (like today even) little giveaway bags of it that are handy for training > treats. > With good quality kibble you can switch foods and the dog doesn't get sick. > A dog team (for dogsledding, I'm sure theres a better term) trainer told me > once that when he evaluates kibble he'll take the dogs out for a good hard > run with nothing in their bellies and then feed them the new food. If they > get sick or have gas the food goes back because its no good. He had > something like 20 dogs and was buying 1/2 ton of food at a time so he didn't > screw around. > > -Curt > > Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:52:18 -0700 > From: "Kevin Kraly" <kr...@comcast.net> > Subject: [MBZ] Dog Food was Re: Chinese Volvos > To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Message-ID: <645b17a8d4b74f18a28ef234f3f5d...@kdogpc> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > What food do you feed your dogs? I found out that the Science Diet RD > prescription dog food that my older Lab is on is basically a diet of > starvation! It's full of crap like peanut hulls, soybean skin, and the > very > very limited proteins come from animal byproducts, not even meat! My new > Labradoodle guide dog was sent home on Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance > which is a quality kibble. Even the Ultra formula at $44 for a 35lb bag is > cheaper than the junk rD which is $60 for 30lb!! > > Kevin in Hillsboro, OR, between MB Diesels > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
