Well I had the dogs on kibble from mid Dec. to the first week of February, because of travelling over the holidays (really about 2 weeks! I just got lazy I guess). I tried Nature's Variety Prairie and PetGuard, which is usually one of my favs. For my bichons, on came the tear and beard staining. Dark rust red and tons of it. Yeasty ears and lipfolds as well as feet and feet chewing began. They had been eating sojos most of last year before i put them back on kibble/canned.
Decided to put them back on sojos mix (and I also rotate the strombeck book recipes) and it's been about 2 weeks. Already, my bichons have a new ring of nice white fur growing and the red staining has stopped. The tear staining is completely gone on Lexi and Darby's has diminished greatly. They are going to have nice, white faces again! Also, the foot chewing stopped, the red, moist yeasty skin is dry and normal and that fur is growing back out nice and white. Darby's ear infection that has been ongoing since I started up the kibble, cleared up and is nice and pink and infection free.
No gas, nice small poo's. No stinky beards (the sprayed on flavor/vitamins on kibble I guess sticks to their beards).
So far so good back on the sojos! I just had to share with everyone, because my friends look at me like I'm nuts talking about dog food LOL.
