[Steven H]

October 2016 update
May 2016 my 11 year old Aussie Mozart lost his eye site, retinal detactment they say. Merlin my 8 year old Aussie was diagnosed with IBS, stomach issues. It was a tough battle for awhile. Mozart regained his eye site, still weening him off the steroids but is doing great. Merlin was prescribed tylan powder twice a day. Had a hard time with him not wanting to eat, refusing even cooked chicken breasts. I cant tell you how hard it is seeing him drop this food out of his mouth. I would actually have to hand feed him wet just to get him to eat something. Numerous vet visits, second and third opinions got me nowhere. I dont even want to tell you the tests they ran and wanted to run. My last straw was making an appointment with a veterinary nutritionist. She wanted his entire history of food given and while filling out this paper work I had found one thing. Switching them over to the limited ingredient diet, real chicken stew wet and hard formula was what they had in common.
They say not every food agrees with our four legged kids and believe me I am not bashing there product, it just was not right for my guys. When we look into this limited ingredient products for our kids we might want to think about what they are replacing food ingredients with. Vitamins, herbs a sprinkle of this and that.
Right now Merlin is eating Purina One wet, turkey and venison and is doing great. Only one I could get him to try, believe me I had made plenty of trips to the store. Mozart is doing well on a Redford dog food hard kibble grain free turkey. I have been feeding them this for about two weeks now and have slowly introduced this hard kibble to Merlins wet food, so far so good.
Like I said, not every food is good for every four legged kid. Just wanted to let you know how things have been going.

Thank you all for your posts, great information here..

Steve

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by Steven H.

[Steven H]

There meal recipes came from The Healthy Dog Cookbook. Meat and Potato Patties (treats), Doggy Delicious Omelet, Spring Chicken Dinner and Thanksgiving Dinner (minus the cran and turkey sauces, ingredients in those not good).
Then of course the supplements, Canine Plus, Omega 3,6, 9 and Seaweed Calcium.
I have just this week introduced them to Merrick grain free chicken and sweet potato. Vets both agreed that it is a good idea for teeth cleaning and having a plan C, plan B is the Whole Earth Farms Hearty Chicken and Hearty Turkey grain free stew.

Going forward it was suggested to me to give them the hard kibble 4 meals a week with the rest being home cooked…. They get two meals a day, morning and evening and of course the home cooked treats during the day…..

[Steven H]

Just wanted to update those that have looked at this message. When the news of there blood work came back to me I panicked, what was I doing wrong.
The next day with a calmer head with there blood work results in hand I email my previous vet asking her to look over the tests. One of the first questions she had asked was if I had fasted the guys before they took this test? Fasted, no they ate within two hours of there morning appointment, then I thought just like us when we get these tests done our Docs tell us not to eat. Boy did I feel stupid and why did the office not tell me this before hand.
Merlin’s results looked fine with just one item slightly high. ( do to me feeding them before hand hopefully )
Mozart was recommended I put him on Denamarin for a slight liver issue. That could be due to me cooking for them, to much protein from what I had read about this issue.
5 weeks from now they will be getting another test done to see how the results compare and I will not be feeding them that morning prior.

My previous Vet moved away and had to find another. I did talk to the current one and she agreed with my second opinion. Just like people, it pays to get a second or third look.

Thank you Andy B for your resoponse and to the others that looked at this post.

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