Earthborn has some good quality reasonably economical foods. I am having a much easier time maintaining my JRTs weight since I switched her to high protein moderate fat foods. I have to wonder if some of the metabolic issues with spayed and neutered dogs are an indication that they don’t handle high carb foods well anymore.
I feed between 35 and 50% protein and 20 to 25% fat. She eats more calories than she did when she was on higher carb foods, but she is way more active and went from acting her age(12 at the time) to acting like a young dog again. She is currently 14 1/2 and going very strong. She went from a difficult to keep there pudgy couch potato 16 lb dog when I got her to an easy to keep there trim athletic 12.5 lb dog. Now, the only sign of her age is that she no longer jumps up into my arms and she has some gray on her muzzle.
I have absolutely no idea why a vet would say that any given dog needs some grains, fiber yes, grains specifically, no. That isn’t to say that you should jump on the grain free bandwagon, just that there is no reason to eliminate that entire class of foods. There is nothing magical about grains.
