Susan is suppose to be very good - the only prob i had with her is she had a friend use hill's id for pancreatitis and the dog had another pancreatic attack so i lost a little faith in her after that as the specialist told me never to feed hill's id to a pancreatitis dog as it has 14% fat and it is pork
I was bummed she referred this person on my yorkie group to give this food after her dog was doing so well on W/D and her dog ended up back in the hospital with pancreatitis again. My dex relapsed on that food and got real sick so i warn everyone about that food. She is a board certified nutritionist from UCDAVIS but that one incident made me cautious as my friend has been working with her and so have several others on my yorkie groups but just a word of caution on that. Also not all dogs do well on raw so just be cautious of that and I really do not like natures variety as they switched owners and their food is not the same and many yorkies on my yorkie groups were just saying that they had their dogs itching on it. The rabbit is not all rabbit and has chicken in it as well so read the ingredients real well. This was on the raw not the freeze dried raw. My other friend has a dog that has 25% of his kidneys and she sees a specialist for that and this specialist said that while dogs do drink a lot more water than cats that she still feels that dogs should not be on a kibble diet their whole life as it can affect their kidneys. Cats have more issues with kidneys than dogs do due to long term use of kibble due to less drinking of water. Many dog owners will feed kibble in am and soft at night. But then when you read about dental issues they say the soft gets below the gum line easier than kibble -- it is all so confusing and frustrating at times but just some thoughts on this to think about - as if we are not confused enough
Ibd is a tough one so if you find something that works stick with it until it does not work anymore.
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Zoey has IBD and has been on Purina EN for almost 2 years. She hasn't had one flare up on it. I feed it to both girls and have no tear staining and they both seem to be doing well on it. The problem I've had is after all this time they are tired of the EN and are not wanting to eat it. I recently did a phone consolation with a nutritionist in California, http://www.askariel.com/store.asp. She suggest I try Nature's Variety raw freeze dried and canned rabbit. Zoey's a very picky eater so this is still a work in progress. She said she wants me try get them off kibble, she doesn't think kibble is good for them. She also gave me ideas if I want to home cook for her. If you would like to know more about what she told me just PM me and I'll let you know what I'm trying.[/B]
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