By: Laurel

Laurel — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:56:00 +0000

Thanks Jan_Mom2cavs I will look into it.

By: Jan_Mom2Cavs

Jan_Mom2Cavs — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:44:00 +0000

Laurel, you may already know this but Fromm has a breeder program, I believe. You should talk to their customer service about it. I’m glad it’s working for you. Love it here!

By: Laurel

Laurel — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:54:00 +0000

I have raised a moderate number of dogs for 25 years, westies for the last 16 and over the last year adopted 4 cavaliers, 2 puppies and 2 adults. We also have several rescued large breed dogs and 3 pet poms. I have fed royal canin small breed adult or puppy, per age recommendations for 2 years to the westies, poms since I have had them (1.5 years) and the Cavaliers (2months for the 2 2 yr olds and 1 year for 2 puppies.) Royal Canin was a huge improvement over the pedigree, iams and eukanuba we had fed. The rescued German Shep- Great Pyr puppy had parvo and staph infection when we got him in October and after vet treatment he is on large breed royal canin puppy and doing fantastic, excellent coat and very healthy, 44 pounds at 4 months of age. One 7? year german shep has degenerative spinal disease and insufficient pancreatic enzymes. He was on Marksman with minimal change and is now on large breed royal canin and weighs a nice weight for the first time in years (I have had him 1.5 yrs, and know he was skinny on pedigree for 3 prior years where he was, I then tried marksman for 6 months.) He has not had any further degeneration. The enzymes from the vet helped put on some weight while on marksman but he was still not right until I switched to RC. 2 of the new cavs had tear stains (one was on diamond prior to us getting him in October, other on RC since we got her in 2-11). My cousin has a 6 yr bichon -maltese mix who has always been on top foods due to extremely sensitive stomach. She came to visit and her dogs tear stains wear gone and the tan color patches had shown up after being gone since she was a pup after 6 weeks on Fromm classic. Plus she just felt more solid and healthy. I was so impressed I switched our pet poms, 2 who had tear stains since before I got them, one a pup now 1 yr old, and the other 11 years old, and the cavaliers to fromm gold. In just over a month the poms and the 1 year old cavs tear stains were completely gone. The 2 year old cavs staining is much less then it was, although he lost weight as he doesnt like the food much. They all think the royal canin tastes better, but they all have had marked physical improvement on fromm gold, except the above who lost some weight, although he was thin prior… I am going to start topping his food. (I dont normally top the food.) Nobody had loose stools from the switch and it was not switched slowly, 3 days at 50%. In the last 2 weeks to 1 month we adopted 5 toy/mini Shar peis, 11 months to 7 years old. I was told not to feed them soy in any form by the ex-breeder. I fed royal canin with a sudden switch (we forgot to take the bag of food she had sent with them, they were on hi-energy diamond.) They had only barely loose stools a couple days on RC when I realized there was soy in RC and switched them suddenly again to the fromm gold. The loose stools were gone next day. I have only had them 2 weeks to a month so not enough time to rate it well. But 3 had ear infections when I got them (5 adult dogs) and I dont know if the ear cleaning or food has helped but their ears are much better. They eat very little of the food and are a great weight. 2 were pregnant and had nice birth weight puppies 2.5 weeks after we adopted them. They all had odd scabs, but also had fleas, so not sure if getting rid of the fleas helped or the food change, scabs (and fleas) are all gone now(advantix II). the 4 young dogs seemed in good shape on the diamond, nice coats, good weight ect. but the 7 yr olds coat is poor, hes underweight and he has tear stains. I’m hoping the feed change will help (only had him 2 weeks). I would switch the Westies all to Fromm if I could afford it. The westies are great weights and have nice coats, and the puppies grow great on the royal canin, no random loose stool like we had on the other brands so I am happy with RC, but think they would do even better on Fromm. Sorry such a long post. I have never written a reveiw before but am very impressed with Fromm and have more dogs with improvements, and have seen nothing negative, (except price.)

By: Jan_Mom2Cavs

Jan_Mom2Cavs — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:20:00 +0000

I’m sorry to respond so late to this, but I wanted to let you know that my daughter and son-in-law have a beautiful German Shorthair female that is around 3 years old. She was raised on Solid Gold Wolf Cub then put on Wolf King as an adult. She did fantastic on the food! So I believe it is a good food. However, the Wolf King ended up being too low protein for her activity level (they had a hard time keeping weight on her) so they have since switched foods to TOTW and they also sometimes use 4Health from TS. Now, on to Fromm…..this is what I feed. Not the large breed puppy or any large breed food as I have small dogs, but I love Fromm! I think it is excellent food from an excellent company. I really feel you could go with either one and be fine.

By: monkey

monkey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:11:00 +0000

I can attest to small poops on all Fromm formulas that we’ve tried

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