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If you had to choose...

Posted : 8/18/2006 6:07:59 PM

I decided to start another thread because I had a question that I wanted to get some opinions on...

Aside from Beneful (lol), I found two dry foods that my dog will actually eat; which one would you choose?

Bil-Jac adult:
[font="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"]Fresh Chicken By-Products (Organ Meat Only), Fresh Chicken, Corn, Chicken By-Product Meal, Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Fresh Chicken Liver, Brewers Dried Yeast, Cane Molasses, Eggs, Salt

Protein: 27%
Fat: 18%
Fiber: 4%
Moisture: 10%
(that's all that is given)

-or-

Pro Plan Small Breed Adult:
Chicken, brewers rice, corn gluten meal, poultry by-product meal (natural source of glucosamine), whole grain corn, animal fat preserved with mixed-tocopherols (form of Vitamin E), corn bran, fish meal (natural source of glucosamine), animal digest, dried egg product

Protein: 29%
Fat: 17%
Fiber: 3%
Moisture: 12%
Linoleic Acid (Min) 1.5%
Calcium (Ca) (Min) 1.0%
Phosphorus (P) (Min) 0.8%
Selenium (Se) (Min) 0.30 mg/kg
Vitamin A (Min) 15,000 IU/kg
Vitamin E (Min) 460 IU/kg
Ascorbic Acid** (Min) 70 mg/kg
Glucosamine** (Min) 400 ppm
Glutamine** (Min) 1.0%

**I forgot to mention that he seems to prefer the Pro Plan over the Bil-Jac, but he will eat both.

sooner

Posted : 8/18/2006 6:42:00 PM

Honestly, I would probably pick the Pro Plan, but I've noticed from reading your posts that it seems like Wolfie usually likes something new for a while, then gets tired of it - do you think he'll get tired of these?

papillon806

Posted : 8/18/2006 6:45:00 PM

He has done that in the past, but I must say that he never ate them with very much "gusto" (for lack of a better word) from the start, where he has with these. The only other one he ate like this was Royal Canin...but after the Beneful incident, he wouldn't touch the RC but ate the Pro Plan, etc. [&:]

Luvntzus

Posted : 8/18/2006 6:55:54 PM

Of those choices, I would pick Bil Jac...

The things I don't like about Pro Plan:

Corn gluten meal
Corn Bran
by-products not specified to be organs only
Animal digest
Brewer's rice
Egg "product"

Things I like about Bil Jac:

First two ingredients are some type of meat, has brewer's yeast, eggs, and liver.

The bad things about Bil Jac:

Corn
Molasses
Salt

No question really for me which food is better.

chelsea_b

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:04:23 PM

which one would you choose?

I would probably go with Bil-Jac. I actually fed that for a while (when I thought I knew about dog foods...turns out I didn't!). I believe it's preserved with BHA, which is pretty nasty stuff, but other than that (admittedly that's a pretty significant thing), the ingredients are leaps and bounds better, IMO, than the Pro Plan. Cherokee actually did really really well on it. My only issue was it seemed to make her teeth dirty more quickly.

If you're up for other suggestions (otherwise click away [

]), I can't imagine you've tried every really great food out there, so maybe you should keep trying? Or don't think of it as trying to find the "perfect" food, it probably doesn't exist, so maybe you should just plan on switching foods often. Maybe Wolfie's trying to tell you he wants variety? Just a thought.

papillon806

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:07:24 PM

I have tried:

Innova, Innova EVO, Timberwolf Organics, Canidae, Natural Balance, Royal Canin, California Natural, Solid Gold, Wellness

Some of these were samples he wouldn't even TOUCH (sniffed and walked away) after not eating for a day or two...

tony

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:09:54 PM

I would feed which ever one she likes the best.

tony

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:17:40 PM

For what it's worth I have a very picky dog who, couple of foods she seems to find really palatable are Sensible Choice Chicken and Rice and Also the Lassies Natural Way Chicken, which you can get Krogers.

papillon806

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:18:48 PM

hmm....I've tried Sensible Choice lamb and rice and he didn't like that, but I didn't try the chicken and rice which may be different....I'll see if they can send me a sample or two.

chewbecca

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:27:46 PM

How did your dog do on T.O.?
Obviously he didn't like it because he's not eating it anymore, but how did he handled it?

papillon806

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:31:43 PM

It was good for a few weeks, but after a few more weeks he began to get really loose, runny stools and was pooping 3-4 times a day. Around that time was when he stopped eating it (would actually walk away from me if I was scooping the food out--I thought that was kind of funny, lol). It has worked for other dogs, I guess it just didn't agree with mine.

chewbecca

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:34:20 PM

ORIGINAL: papillon806

It was good for a few weeks, but after a few more weeks he began to get really loose, runny stools and was pooping 3-4 times a day. Around that time was when he stopped eating it (would actually walk away from me if I was scooping the food out--I thought that was kind of funny, lol). It has worked for other dogs, I guess it just didn't agree with mine.

Yeah, Ella doesn't have the runny stools or loose stools, but she has now decided that she doesn't want to eat it anymore. She liked it through the first bag so I bought another bag, now she won't eat it anymore.
I'm going to use the last bag, but when she's done with it, I'm going to get Nature's Variety Raw Instincts.

papillon806

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:38:40 PM

I think it might be the herbs and/or cinnimon in it....my friend's dog (who is a lab who will eat anything), actually spit out the TO kibble. I gave her a sample pack, and she was tossing it to them as treats (she does this with the dog food she currently feeds) and they both spit it out and looked at it on the floor, lol.

Twin

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:39:20 PM

Have you tried mixing in canned food?

Not a ton, but enough to give it some appeal and cover the kibble?

papillon806

Posted : 8/18/2006 7:41:21 PM

Yeah....unfortunately he's too smart for his own good, and once he figures out there is kibble in there, he won't eat it