Changing Food

Everyone has reasons from time to time to change their pets food. Some animals do fine no matter what food you feed them but others do not.

The best way to change your pets food is to do it gradually. This will help prevent stomach upset and diarrhea.

Whenever you are going to switch to a new food make sure you have some of the old food left. The first day you feed the new food you should mix about 10% of the new food with 90% of the old food.

If your pet does fine with this, then on the second day increase the new food by about 10% while decreasing the old food by the same amount.

At this point if your pet is still doing fine, keep increasing the new food by 10% every day until you get to the point where you are no longer adding any of the old food.

Years ago I had a lab puppy that I decided to feed Iams because I had been told it was so much better for him than any other food on the market. This puppy had very bad smelly gas so I decided to change his food.

I did the gradual change to Science Diet but he still had a bad gas problem. At this point I decided to go back to using Purina Puppy Chow since the puppies I had in the past had been fed this without having gas.

Once again I did the gradual change and by the time I was feeding only Purina, the gas problem was gone. I'm telling you this because some people think a gassy dog is just a problem they have to put up with but sometimes it can be helped by a simple diet change.