High Fiber Food

[kazzie21]

Thanks Everyone for all the words of wisdom, I stayed up to 2am reading about dog foods online - there are so many options.

Good thing is I live in Austin and there are lots of places that have all the foods available that everyone has been recommending. It just gets overwhelming. You want to pick the best for your dogs and I know part of it is how they respond to it, etc.

I try to make the changes slowly over a week or two adding more and more of the new food. We had 3 different foods this year so maybe that also is causing these new issues.

But I still have a feeling we should try one more food slowly and hopefully will find our food we will stick with for awhile that will make us all happy. My one dog also has gained a little weight, but part of that is because of behavior issues (she started getting agressive as she got older with other dogs so we don't go to the leash free dog parks anymore like we were everyweekend). She is a 5 1/2 year old austrailian cattle dog mix. She is doing great except for the latest poop issues and little extra weight. Vet said she has the teeth and heart of a youngin still.

I also have 2 year old lab mix and she is going fine weight and health wise.

A few years ago I tried the Instinct (Nature's Variety) grain free as a suggestion from a trainer that maybe the grain-free would also help calm her down. She didn't seem to like eating it too much. I tried it with my cats too and they hated it lol (another story).

Anyways, I'm going to head to Pet Supplies Plus this afternoon since they have a super selection and prices. Here's my final 4.

Wellness Core Reduced Fat
TOTW High Prarie Formula
Orijen Adult
Chicken Soup For The Dog Lover's Soul

I know the last one isn't grain free- but it seems to have lots of good reviews, good quality products, and has a great price. The dogs love the their wet food. Every once in while I do give them some wet food as a treat. I mix in half a can with their dry food.

Now I need to make a final decision. Decisions, Decisions.

[RCTRIPLEFRESH5]

Orijen if you can afford it!

[kazzie21]

I think we will try the Orijen - so many seem to be raving about it.
Of course I would like to save money however I want the best for my lil monsters.
Some even said their dogs lost extra weight on it.
I'll introduce it slowly and see how we go.
Wish us luck :)

Now I need to research cat food

[RCTRIPLEFRESH5]

I think we will try the Orijen - so many seem to be raving about it.
Of course I would like to save money however I want the best for my lil monsters.
Some even said their dogs lost extra weight on it.
I'll introduce it slowly and see how we go.
Wish us luck :)

Now I need to research cat food

orijen for cats =p.
but you may go bankrupt also.

[PUNKem733]

orijen for cats =p.
but you may go bankrupt also.

1. Orijen

2. Wellness

3. TOTW

4. Chicken Soup For The Dog Lover's Soul

For cats, the best overall food is Wellness core canned food. Any and every cat food review site, or cat forums universally praises Wellness for cats.

[CorgiPaws]

Now I need to research cat food

My cat is a kibble junkie (despite my daily attempts to get her on raw, or at minimum a good canned diet) and we rotate just about EVERY high quality grain free kibble for her for the sake of variety. I must say that so far she's had Grain Free Felidae which she ate, but lost weight on it and wasn't eating it very happily. Then we did wellness core, which she lost interest in halfway through the bag. Right now she's on a bag of Instinct Rabbit Meal and is so in love with it, I almost feel bad switching after this bag!! haha.
Definately in any kind of diet, variety is key, so don't feel the need to pick one and only one food and stick with it forever. Pick a few! Rotate!

[PUNKem733]

You really wanna try to get cats on canned meals if not a raw diet. They have a low thirst drive, and get a lot of their moisture from their foods. But like my 2 cats who are kibble junkies as well, though they occasionally cath a bird or lizard, and eat them. Instinct is an excellent cat food. Orijen and Evo of course also have outstanding kibble.

[kazzie21]

Thanks for the advice

I got a small bag of Orijen, I gave both lil monsters a few kibbles as a treat and they both gobbled them up so that's a good sign. Will start adding a little in every meal.

Yeah my one cat is supper picky and only seems to want to eat Purina One. I tried switching them to Instinct last year slowly and my one cat slowly stopped eating all together, got sick and caused all sorts of emergency pet visits (started having liver problems due to not eating). So after we got her healthy again - had to force feed the poor thing for a month we went back to Purina one.

I recently tried the Wellness Indoor last month. I mixed a lil in their food and put a lil out on a plate on it's own to see if either would choose it. My other cat would always go for the wellness but my picky cat didn't and seemed to stop eating when i started mixing more in. So after a month of mixing the two together I just went back to the Purina One. I may be just a little gun shy now as well.

They aren't too good at eating wet food either. They seem all excited when I give it to them once in awhile as a treat but they just lick it like mad and only eat a lil of it. Cracks me up.

I didn't see the Orijen Cat food at Pet Supplies Plus but maybe I'll look closer next time I'm there. Or try a different Wellness flavor. I'll research that later.

Now I have to feed myself lol. I sometimes wish there was a human kibble on days when i don't feel like shopping or cooking.