Food rotations

glenmar

but I also homecook and that changes from pot to pot,

 Changes from pot to pot??

Just curious, but I thought you fed raw meats?

Perhaps I have you mixed up with someone else, but I thought you'd said homecooking didn't take you long at all cause your meats were fed raw.

 

Thanks everyone....I guess Sam is on a food rotation, not by my choice thou.

You don't have to rotate if you don't want to, it's your dog. If he's doing well on his current food, why not stick with it? I'm on the fence. I rotated for years between brands of kibble, raw and homecooked. The dogs now are 7, 9 and almost 13 and don't tolerate a lot of switching around. Raw is definitely out, as they generally end up with vomiting or diarrhea. My base lately is kibble (PetGuard Lifespan) with yogurt in the morning and kibble plus either canned or whatever we're having for dinner- nothing exotic like burritos though LOL. I have about a month's worth left of this kibble and I have a bag of the taste of the wild pacific to try (wanted to give grain free a go and hope it agrees with everyone's systems!) My 13 yr old minpin acts half his age and is darn annoying about play play play, acting like a macho man, fetch fetch fetch! For his age, I thought he'd have calmed down by NOW LOL. So I think, in the long run, rotation is beneficial. So anyway, if you find a few foods he does well on, just rotate every now and again. If you don't want to and he's fine on what you're feeding, than stick with that. Clear as mud!

He is my dog, but I'm not payng for food. My mom is. So, I can only get so far.

 

I feed a rotation diet, we give my little schnauzer a mix of kibble, raw dehydrated and homecooked. We rotate everyday though and have been feeding him this way for years. He loves his food and is completely not picky at all! We tend to rotate within brands and at the moment he gets fed this brand called Addiction, both raw dehydrated and kibble. I thought the name was really unusual when I saw it in the store, but the ingredients looked really yummy so I thought I'd try it. :) Has anyone else heard of or feed this brand too?

Kibble in the morning, homecooked most nights, and raw at least once a week.  The homecooked I typically add my meat last since I don't worry about it cooking or not cooking.  The heat from the pot cooks it enough.......

It's probably me you are thinking of.  I cook the carby stuff, and fruits and veggies, and feed meat raw.  Except fish.  Lu's diet is mostly fish-based and it's baked tilapia.  *Slurp* - we have tilapia too when I prep her fish! 

My boy is spoiled and loses interest in his food every couple of months or so.  We have a couple of foods that are tried and true with his digestion.  He does really well on Eagle Pack, Pro Plan and Diamond Naturals.  They are all premium foods about the same level.

Which Blue do you use.  We tried it years ago when it first came out and we had nothing but diarrea.  I'm sure they've improved it since then.

I think Glenda feeds the Wilderness. That's what Casey is on for this bag. He likes it, he also really likes the fish. He wasn't crazy over the lamb, but he ate it.

We've never had diarrhea, and he's been eating it for over a year now - but every dog is different.

My cats get Wilderness.  Thunder gets Wilderness to keep the weight on him this winter,   The rest of the crew gets large breed, with an occassional bag of Fish & Sweet Tater, or Lamb and Brown rice for some variety.  But, considering we go through a 30 lb bag every 8 days, there's plenty of opportunity to switch.  I like that the large breed has high enough levels of glucosimin and chondrotin to be listed on the GA.

 Rascal tells me when he wants a change - he's a picky little bugger. When he stops eating all of the kibble I give him, I switch to a different brand or flavor (whatever I feel like and/or is on sale at the time). I usually switch after each bag, which is about once every 4-6 weeks.

He has a pretty sturdy little stomach, despite being a picky eater. I can usually switch him "cold turkey" to a new food with little to no effect. He gets all sorts of table scraps (in small quantities, and nothing bad for him), occasional meals of wet food, or sardines, or eggs... very little seems to phase his digestion. I doubt it has anything to do with food rotation (he was fed the same food every day for the first 3 years of his life) but I figure adding variety to his diet certainly can't hurt. Plus he enjoys it, so hey, why not?

I have yet to find the "perfect" food that cures his dry coat, anyway. 

Edit: Rascal usually gets some variety of Wellness CORE, or Solid Gold Barking at the Moon, or (occasionally) Innova EVO. The Innova makes him a bit chubby. In general he seems to prefer and do better on high protein foods - the stinkier, the better!