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CHARLI'SMOM · 02-24-2005, 08:50 AM

I Give My Charlibear Proplan Puppy Lamb An Rice. I Read Another Thread Earlier That Didn't Recommend Proplan. I Thought It Was Good Since It Has Alot Of Protein. What, If Any, Are The Disadvantages Of This Product. Thanks In Advance :

debi_s · 02-24-2005, 03:35 PM

Ditto...I fed my Apple Pro Plan when I got her and she was sickly at the time and did really well.....she has remained on it for 6 months and continues to thrive.
So, when I got my little yorkie girl 3 weeks ago I slowly changed her to the Pro Plan (the breeder was feeding her watered down generic puppy food!).....she has done GREAT!!!
She was tiny...1 pound 1 ounce....and now 3 weeks later she weighs 1 pound 11 ounces!!!! And she does LOVE TO EAT!!!
I have had to grind it because she continues to have problems with dry kibble...but Pro Plan (ground) with a drop or 2 of water and a tiny bit of canned puppy food gets the job done!!!
I haven't given her any Nutrical for 2-3 days now and she is doing great.
I know there are alot of really great foods out there and some are very highly recommended.but Pro Plan works for us ...and it's fairly easy to find!!!!

yorkipower · 02-26-2005, 03:35 PM

In light of all the posts here - I wanted to share this list with the Yorkie Talk members. I don't want to plagerize so my first recommendation is to visit the Whole Dog Journal on the 'net and get a copy of the Top Dog Foods for Total Wellness. It also rates the top canned and dry dog foods. Here are the products they DON'T recommend:

Alpo Lamb Meal
Beneful
Bil-Jac Select Dog Food
Cycle Adult Dog Food
Dad's with Econ-O-Mets
Diamond Premium Adult Formula
Eukanuba Adult Maintenance
Excel Lamb Meal and Rice
Gravy Train Dog Food
Iams Lamb Meal
Kibbles N' Bits Homestyle
Max Adult (Nutro)
Natural Choice Adult Lamb and Rice (Nutro)
Nature's Recipe
Nutra Nuggets Adult Maintenance
Pedigree
Purina Dog Show
Purina One
Science Diet
Scient Diet's Nature's Best" with Real Beef

Ringo · 02-27-2005, 07:29 AM

YorkiePower...can you ppst the top five foods they DO recommend for puppies?

Thanks!

Breeze · 02-27-2005, 10:15 AM

Whole Dog Journal's picks.

They base their choices on quality of ingredients. All the choices are human grade except the nutro ultra, which is new in 2005.
Old
Artemis
Azmira
Back to Basics
Bench & Field Holistic Natural
Blue Buffalo
Burns
California Natural
Canidae
Chicken Soup
Drs Foster & Smith
Eagle Pack Holistic
Flint River
Foundations
Fromm Four Star
Go! Natural
Innova
Karma Organic
Lick Your Chops
Lifespan
Limited Diets
Merrick
Natural Balance Ultra
Newman’s Own Organic
Organix
PHD Viand
Pinnacle
Prairie
Prime Life
Royal Canin Natural Blend
Solid Gold
Timberwolf Organics
VeRUS
Wellness
Wysong

New to 2005
By Nature Brightlife
Canine Caviar
Cloud Star
Evolve
Nutro Natural Choice Ultra
Premium Edge
Wellness Simple Food Solutions

Ringo · 02-27-2005, 11:06 AM

Thank you, Breeze.

jay&joey · 02-27-2005, 12:36 PM

I feed Joey the Nutro's Natural Choice Ultra puppy food mixed with Yorkie 28 and he loves it. I will eventually just feed him Yorkie 28 once he reaches 10 months.

Marie · 02-27-2005, 10:05 PM

I used to feed Gucci Science diet but after reading posts here decided to change it. Now we are trying Nutro natural choice puppy but it doesnt said ultra in the package. Gucci is not eating it. She did a couple of times after warming it and adding a bit of parmesan cheese to it. But the last couples of days she hasnt being eating it at all. Yesterday she didnt ate all day until late i guess she was hungry and didnt have other choice. Still she only ate some not all. She ates the treats but not her dry food. My hubby is guilty also in giving her home food. He said he feels bad that she is not eating her dog food. I keep telling him she wont eat it as long she knows that her daddy will feed her. I do give her nutrical at least once a day. Actually i need to get more because just finish.

yorkipower · 02-28-2005, 05:49 PM

Marie:
As you can see from the post above, Nutro is not recommended either. These premium dog foods like Nutro and Bil-Jac are a step up from the supermarket dog foods like MIghty Dog and Little Ceasures but they don't use the best ingrediants. Unfortunatly, there's also a question of finances. THe better foods do cost more. If I had to make a choice, though, I'd choose to feed my dogs a kibble from say, Wysong or Solid Gold, then feed a canned food from a more commerical brand.

Marie · 02-28-2005, 07:09 PM

:Puppy: Today I went to the pet store to get more Nutrical. I talk to the manager and he gave me two samples of dry puppy food; One was Wellness and the other was Solid Gold. He told me those two foods are very good. I saw the name on the list of Whole Dog Journal's picks. I talked to my hubby and he promised not to feed Gucci human food. Now we have to wait and see.
I hope Gucci start eating food cause I don't want her to get sick. I also got the new Iams Savory sauce, so i hope that also will help. Thank you so much for all the advise.

yorkipower · 02-28-2005, 07:54 PM

Just be careful not to change her food too quickly. She may get a tummy ache or simply refuse the new food simply because she is not used to it. Change the food gradually. Good luck!

Marie · 03-01-2005, 12:02 AM

I want to say that Gucci ate tonite. I put half of the Nutro and half of wellness and also added a bit of the iams sauce and she gobble everything up. Of course at the beginning she wouldnt eat it and was begging and since she didnt got anything from us she ate all her food. Thank you all for the advise. I just hope she will keep eating for now on. I might switch soon to only Wellness. Anybody else uses Wellness food?

yorkipower · 03-01-2005, 09:48 AM

Well, of course, I do. Although, as I mentioned in a previous post, I routate foods (in fact, there was a recent article in Whole Dog Journal on that concept) so what I feed my dogs depends on where I am in that rotation!

Right now - here's what my dogs are getting:

Innova Canned Dog Food
Sea Pet Fish Oil
Missing Link Plus
Solid Gold "Just a Wee Bit" Kibble

I also feed them treats to train. For training purposes I use varying "degrees" of food depending on what I am trying to train. This ranges from "Power Bones" and "AKC training treats" "Itty Bitty Dog Store Freeze Dried Liver" to hotdogs and pieces of boneless, skinless chicken and of course the old time fave - American Cheese. When training, I use dime sized pieces of food and I reduce what my dogs are fed for dinner. If they are "off" their food, I will add a sprinkle of parmasion (sp?) cheese or mush some human grade cooked meat (like pieces of hamburger) into the food but I am very careful to cover the human food with dog food so that they must "dig out" rather than "pick out" those morsals!

If my dogs are sick (Bun has Addisson's and Penny is prone to hypoglycemia), Pet Nutri-Drops really help. It does not add the ton of fat calories that Nutrical does, but it picks them up and keeps their sugar levels from sinking.

anne_nyc · 03-01-2005, 03:05 PM

We are in the process of switching to Wellness. Our breeder had them on food that was high quality but that is very hard to get. We are trying to it very slowly as the first day we tried half and half and Nora's tummy got very upset. We also mixed in a bit of rice to help settle them down.

lickthestar · 03-02-2005, 07:00 AM

Sorry, guys...I have issues with Wellness. Not that it's not a good food...it is, but every time I got to a pet food shop, they try to shove it down MY throat. I usually get Archie Neura, which is the same company as wellness, but has 95% meat. Archie loves this. I go to pick it up and they're on me asking if I've ever considered wellness. I have a whole case of it in my house, but archie doesn't like the consistency of it. So I asked the guy in the shop...why is every pet shop in town trying to get me to buy wellness? I have a sneaky suspicion that they get some sort of commission for it. Frankly, I like Innova and it's just as healthy but no one pushes that. Point of my story---do your own research and don't listen to pet food store people.

P.S. Neura was rated in the top canned food in 2004. I subscribe to WDJ, and their ratings for canned foods 2005 have not come out yet, although their ratings for top dry foods for this year have.

02-24-2005, 08:50 AM	#1
CHARLI'SMOM Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: VA BEACH, VA Posts: 14	Type Of Foods I Give My Charlibear Proplan Puppy Lamb An Rice. I Read Another Thread Earlier That Didn't Recommend Proplan. I Thought It Was Good Since It Has Alot Of Protein. What, If Any, Are The Disadvantages Of This Product. Thanks In Advance :

02-26-2005, 03:35 PM	#3
yorkipower BANNED! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York Posts: 446	Whole Dog Journal's "Not Recommended" List In light of all the posts here - I wanted to share this list with the Yorkie Talk members. I don't want to plagerize so my first recommendation is to visit the Whole Dog Journal on the 'net and get a copy of the Top Dog Foods for Total Wellness. It also rates the top canned and dry dog foods. Here are the products they DON'T recommend: Alpo Lamb Meal Beneful Bil-Jac Select Dog Food Cycle Adult Dog Food Dad's with Econ-O-Mets Diamond Premium Adult Formula Eukanuba Adult Maintenance Excel Lamb Meal and Rice Gravy Train Dog Food Iams Lamb Meal Kibbles N' Bits Homestyle Max Adult (Nutro) Natural Choice Adult Lamb and Rice (Nutro) Nature's Recipe Nutra Nuggets Adult Maintenance Pedigree Purina Dog Show Purina One Science Diet Scient Diet's Nature's Best" with Real Beef

02-27-2005, 10:05 PM	#8
Marie Mom loves Gucci Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 6,427	I used to feed Gucci Science diet but after reading posts here decided to change it. Now we are trying Nutro natural choice puppy but it doesnt said ultra in the package. Gucci is not eating it. She did a couple of times after warming it and adding a bit of parmesan cheese to it. But the last couples of days she hasnt being eating it at all. Yesterday she didnt ate all day until late i guess she was hungry and didnt have other choice. Still she only ate some not all. She ates the treats but not her dry food. My hubby is guilty also in giving her home food. He said he feels bad that she is not eating her dog food. I keep telling him she wont eat it as long she knows that her daddy will feed her. I do give her nutrical at least once a day. Actually i need to get more because just finish. __________________ Huggies, Gucci and Marie http://www.dogster.com/?132187 "I have been egged"

02-28-2005, 07:09 PM	#10
Marie Mom loves Gucci Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 6,427	:Puppy: Today I went to the pet store to get more Nutrical. I talk to the manager and he gave me two samples of dry puppy food; One was Wellness and the other was Solid Gold. He told me those two foods are very good. I saw the name on the list of Whole Dog Journal's picks. I talked to my hubby and he promised not to feed Gucci human food. Now we have to wait and see. I hope Gucci start eating food cause I don't want her to get sick. I also got the new Iams Savory sauce, so i hope that also will help. Thank you so much for all the advise. __________________ Huggies, Gucci and Marie http://www.dogster.com/?132187 "I have been egged"

03-01-2005, 12:02 AM	#12
Marie Mom loves Gucci Donating Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 6,427	I want to say that Gucci ate tonite. I put half of the Nutro and half of wellness and also added a bit of the iams sauce and she gobble everything up. Of course at the beginning she wouldnt eat it and was begging and since she didnt got anything from us she ate all her food. Thank you all for the advise. I just hope she will keep eating for now on. I might switch soon to only Wellness. Anybody else uses Wellness food? __________________ Huggies, Gucci and Marie http://www.dogster.com/?132187 "I have been egged"

02-24-2005, 03:35 PM	#2
debi_s YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Upstate S.C. Posts: 309	Ditto...I fed my Apple Pro Plan when I got her and she was sickly at the time and did really well.....she has remained on it for 6 months and continues to thrive. So, when I got my little yorkie girl 3 weeks ago I slowly changed her to the Pro Plan (the breeder was feeding her watered down generic puppy food!).....she has done GREAT!!! She was tiny...1 pound 1 ounce....and now 3 weeks later she weighs 1 pound 11 ounces!!!! And she does LOVE TO EAT!!! I have had to grind it because she continues to have problems with dry kibble...but Pro Plan (ground) with a drop or 2 of water and a tiny bit of canned puppy food gets the job done!!! I haven't given her any Nutrical for 2-3 days now and she is doing great. I know there are alot of really great foods out there and some are very highly recommended.but Pro Plan works for us ...and it's fairly easy to find!!!!

02-27-2005, 07:29 AM	#4
Ringo Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 193	YorkiePower...can you ppst the top five foods they DO recommend for puppies? Thanks!

02-27-2005, 10:15 AM	#5
Breeze Puppy Luv Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 2,678	Whole Dog Journal's picks. They base their choices on quality of ingredients. All the choices are human grade except the nutro ultra, which is new in 2005. Old Artemis Azmira Back to Basics Bench & Field Holistic Natural Blue Buffalo Burns California Natural Canidae Chicken Soup Drs Foster & Smith Eagle Pack Holistic Flint River Foundations Fromm Four Star Go! Natural Innova Karma Organic Lick Your Chops Lifespan Limited Diets Merrick Natural Balance Ultra Newman’s Own Organic Organix PHD Viand Pinnacle Prairie Prime Life Royal Canin Natural Blend Solid Gold Timberwolf Organics VeRUS Wellness Wysong New to 2005 By Nature Brightlife Canine Caviar Cloud Star Evolve Nutro Natural Choice Ultra Premium Edge Wellness Simple Food Solutions

02-27-2005, 11:06 AM	#6
Ringo Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 193	Thank you, Breeze.

02-27-2005, 12:36 PM	#7
jay&joey Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 24	I feed Joey the Nutro's Natural Choice Ultra puppy food mixed with Yorkie 28 and he loves it. I will eventually just feed him Yorkie 28 once he reaches 10 months.

02-28-2005, 05:49 PM	#9
yorkipower BANNED! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York Posts: 446	Marie: As you can see from the post above, Nutro is not recommended either. These premium dog foods like Nutro and Bil-Jac are a step up from the supermarket dog foods like MIghty Dog and Little Ceasures but they don't use the best ingrediants. Unfortunatly, there's also a question of finances. THe better foods do cost more. If I had to make a choice, though, I'd choose to feed my dogs a kibble from say, Wysong or Solid Gold, then feed a canned food from a more commerical brand.

02-28-2005, 07:54 PM	#11
yorkipower BANNED! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York Posts: 446	Just be careful not to change her food too quickly. She may get a tummy ache or simply refuse the new food simply because she is not used to it. Change the food gradually. Good luck!

03-01-2005, 09:48 AM	#13
yorkipower BANNED! Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: New York Posts: 446	Well, of course, I do. Although, as I mentioned in a previous post, I routate foods (in fact, there was a recent article in Whole Dog Journal on that concept) so what I feed my dogs depends on where I am in that rotation! Right now - here's what my dogs are getting: Innova Canned Dog Food Sea Pet Fish Oil Missing Link Plus Solid Gold "Just a Wee Bit" Kibble I also feed them treats to train. For training purposes I use varying "degrees" of food depending on what I am trying to train. This ranges from "Power Bones" and "AKC training treats" "Itty Bitty Dog Store Freeze Dried Liver" to hotdogs and pieces of boneless, skinless chicken and of course the old time fave - American Cheese. When training, I use dime sized pieces of food and I reduce what my dogs are fed for dinner. If they are "off" their food, I will add a sprinkle of parmasion (sp?) cheese or mush some human grade cooked meat (like pieces of hamburger) into the food but I am very careful to cover the human food with dog food so that they must "dig out" rather than "pick out" those morsals! If my dogs are sick (Bun has Addisson's and Penny is prone to hypoglycemia), Pet Nutri-Drops really help. It does not add the ton of fat calories that Nutrical does, but it picks them up and keeps their sugar levels from sinking.

03-01-2005, 03:05 PM	#14
anne_nyc Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 22	We are in the process of switching to Wellness. Our breeder had them on food that was high quality but that is very hard to get. We are trying to it very slowly as the first day we tried half and half and Nora's tummy got very upset. We also mixed in a bit of rice to help settle them down.

03-02-2005, 07:00 AM	#15
lickthestar YT Addict Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NY Posts: 360	Sorry, guys...I have issues with Wellness. Not that it's not a good food...it is, but every time I got to a pet food shop, they try to shove it down MY throat. I usually get Archie Neura, which is the same company as wellness, but has 95% meat. Archie loves this. I go to pick it up and they're on me asking if I've ever considered wellness. I have a whole case of it in my house, but archie doesn't like the consistency of it. So I asked the guy in the shop...why is every pet shop in town trying to get me to buy wellness? I have a sneaky suspicion that they get some sort of commission for it. Frankly, I like Innova and it's just as healthy but no one pushes that. Point of my story---do your own research and don't listen to pet food store people. P.S. Neura was rated in the top canned food in 2004. I subscribe to WDJ, and their ratings for canned foods 2005 have not come out yet, although their ratings for top dry foods for this year have.