Changing Your Dog's Food

Take it Slow & Steady

When planning a change in your dog's diet it's a good idea to do it gradually.  Even when switching from one brand to another using approximately the same formulation i.e. lamb & rice to lamb & rice. 

• You can start with a quarter of a cup of the new food added to the existing diet.  Depending on how much you feed, size of the pooch and the delicacy of his/her gut. Go with this ratio for several days ....4-7 days.
  
  
• Then add more of the new food perhaps another one quarter so that you are now feeding half and half.
  
  
• In several more days you can increase the ratio again to three quarters of the new food.  
  
  
• If you find that the  dog is having digestive upset drop back to a lower ratio of new to old food.  
  
  
• When all seems to be right with your pal make the complete change-over to the new food. 
  
  
• What you're doing is balancing the flora in your dog's gut.
  
  

This would be a good place to remind you to check out  ingredients on the container.  The advertising on the front of the bag or the container or television
does not mean a thing...only how good the designers are!  If you see chicken-by-products or beef-by -products or any other by-products reject the food.  By products can be feathers, hooves,etc.  Corn is another ingredient that's not wonderful.

It takes more time but your dog will be a healthier happier one and so will you!

Author: Virginia Dunlap

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