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Originally posted by perth
Thanks all for the advice!
As much as I dislike his current name, it could be worse, so I will count my blessings and keep calling him Houdini.
He is currently on Science Diet, and I think theres, what, 2 suggestions in this thread so far...
Nutro Max
Diamond
yeah, 2 suggested brands. I imagine as long as its high-quality food, its just a matter of reading the labels and making a judgement call?
I will definitely try UT's trick for training the dog in where to go. We moved into our new house recently, with its brand new offwhite carpet, and anything that might help in keeping that carpet nice is well worth it.
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Science-Diet is a good food, most vets will recommend it because Hills (makers of Science-Diet) also make a line of specialty vet restricted diets for urinary tract probs, food allergies, digestion probs, etc. so vets are prone to also recommend regular Science-Diet products. If Houdini isn't currently having any probs w/ it I probably wouldn't change diets, but if you do, try Nutro. Actually, a lot vets are recommending Nutro now. When reading labels look for chicken or poultry by-products (heads,beaks, feet, guts, etc.) and avoid them. They are tasty to the pet, but offer little nutritional value. Also avoid corn-based foods (ground yellow corn). Just like us, you know, you eat corn and it comes out corn
. Corn is hard to digest and causes skin problems in many pets. Corn gluten meal is better as far as nutritional value and digestibility, but still can cause skin probs in some pets. Wheat is also a prob for some pets. The Nutro Nat. Choice doesn't use by-prod., corn, or wheat. For these reasons, and the high digestibility of lamb as the protein source, most dogs do very well on it. The regular Nutro (chicken/lamb/rice) is a very good diet too, higher in fat (and I believe protein too) so if your pet tends to get chubby I'd stick with the Nat. Choice. But, don't take my word, check out the ingredients and compare to SD. Again I say SD is a good food and you may not want to ruin a good thing, but if you do change check out Nutro
. Geez, you'd think I was getting kick backs or something for promoting the stuff, but unfortunately I'm not. I've always had dogs and cats, worked in pet supply stores, feed stores, shown dogs, rescued cats and dogs and am a biologist, not that the latter as anything to do with it.
