rotating food

Edie, perhaps you DO need glasses...I'm seeing her post the same size as yours.

Really? I'm seeing it 2-3 sizes smaller than the normal size.i'll see if i can find it...

[size="1"]This is the size i am seeing it at,but with a different font.Maybe the font is different??[/size]

ORIGINAL: glenmar

Edie, perhaps you DO need glasses...I'm seeing her post the same size as yours.

I'm not. I'm seeing it smaller too.

I've noticed in the past that some posts look different from each other on my laptop (Mac), BF's computer (Dell), and on my work computer (Gateway). I think it has something to do with different browsers.

Thanks sooner,it was starting to feel like i was being accused of something.....[]

OK....and I KNOW I need glasses!

I use OE.....I think....
 
And gracious, I wasn't accusing anyone of anything.....

If you switch/rotate foods, do you have to re-calibrate the amount fed due to a difference in kcals in each type kibble?  For example, I feed Blue Buffalo and I am really pleased with it, if I rotated with Innova would I be feeding less Innova than what it's label says? I feed 25% less BB than that label and we do very well.  Why do dogs get the trots when foods are changed, but not when they are rotated?  How does the gut know the difference?  Before this forum I had no idea you could even feed raw to dogs, let alone rotate food so this is all new territory for me.   I did go to that site w/ the calculator, and my dog needs somewhere between 2,000 and 2,300 kcals a day.  I am not sure what amount of kcals I am feeding, I need to check the label on the next bag I buy.  I measure very carefully, he is getting 3 cups a day (not all at once)  Jules

I did go to that site w/ the calculator,

Could you post the link to that site please

Jules IMHO dogs shouldnt get "the trots" if they are used to a vast variety of different foods from puppydom.Even if different foods are introduced when they are adults,if done slowly and over time they "should" develop cast iron stomachs to change,ofcourse some dogs will be sensitive no matter what.

Wild dogs and wolves do not eat the exact same food every single day and neither should our dogs,i think it's an un natural and unhealthy way of eating,not just for dogs but for anyone,human or animal.

I dont know why it looks so small to you, when I look at it my font looks bigger then yours.

ORIGINAL: 3guysandagirl

I dont know why it looks so small to you, when I look at it my font looks bigger then yours.

Your post and you sig are two different sizes.

ya, well I usually pick the number one font size, is this better, I just used whatever is writes with on it own this time
 

Much better!!!  Thank you.

your welcome,         
and sorry to anyone that suffered eye strain.[8|]

The primary ungulate grazing in Yellowstone National Park is the bison. The pack of gray wolves that live in the park hunt primarily bison.. They do eat pretty much the same thing. Dogs, wild or not, do not eat a variety of things as an instinctual or even human-like need. They eat whatever is available, whether it is nutritious to them or not. For example, wolves do not get nutritional value from swallowing bones and hide, it just happens. They crap it out a few days later.
 
My dog gets a little variety because I, the human, am spoiling him rotten. But he has killed a squirrel and not eaten it. I think, just recently, he killed a bird but did not eat it. He can play kind of rough.

Egg-zachary.
 
One of the advantages of staying with one food is that if the dog does get a reaction to it, an owner will obviously know what food is causing the problem. I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with rotating foods, though I do agree that matching profiles is important, i.e., rotating dry kibbles should be a fairly even match. And you, Glenda, show how an owner can successfully go through a cycle of kibble, homecooked, and raw, 3 completely different styles, each with it's own set of requirements.
 
You're just too dang smart. Sorry to others, I couldn't help being nice. It was an accident. I'll try to be more acerbic in the future.
 

I will not be so bold as to say that dogs don't NEED a variety for HEALTH reasons, because I flat out don't know that to be fact.  I'm not the scientific type and I don't like trying to figure out what the scientific jargon really means.  I do KNOW for an absolute fact that they don't get "bored" eating the same stuff day after day...this is the OWNERS perception.  Little Fifi doesn't eat as eagerly ONE day so they run out and buy a new food to "keep her interested".  All they are in fact doing is creating a picky eater who will one day drive them mad with their demands.
 
When we were moving from Savannah to MI, DH was already up here, and he's the one that likes variety.  DS and I don't care how many days in a row we eat the same stuff as long as it TASTES good.  I cooked up big pots of several of our favorite things, including PEA soup, which DH flat won't touch and DS and I were happy as hogs in well, you know.  I froze most, and the two of us ate whichever of the already made stuff we felt like eating.  And yes, I ate red beans and rice THREE days in a row for lunch AND dinner, cuz it tasted good.  Then I moved on to my next "food jag".  DH would sooner go hungry than eat the same old same old.  BUT, he had a mother who would literally get up from the table and fix him something else if he wouldn't eat what she'd made for dinner.  MY kids would have done without.  This girl ain't no short order cook![]  So needing a variety for the sake of taste is more a LEARNED thing than anything else.  ESPECIALLY with dogs.
 
Certainly no one could live on red beans and rice forever and stay healthy because that doesn't meet all the nutrient needs our bodies have.  I don't care how many kibbles you rotate or how many different foods you feed your dog...NO PROCESSED DOG FOOD IS 100% NUTRITIONALLY COMPLETE.  And if little Fifi suddenly develops hot spots, you won't have a CLUE where to start eliminating, cuz you change her kibble every single day so she doesn't get bored.
 
My kibble doesn't change.  My homecooked does.  The ONLY thing that is always the same in my homecooked is the carb source, and that there is ALWAYS a certain amount of organ meat.  My meat and veggies are in a constant state of change and I use FRESH veggies whenever I can find them at a decent price.  Of course, one of the things I've got to MOVE to the new house and get planted are dozens of little veggie plants that I've started for the garden to get a good jump on stocking my freezer for the dogs.
 
I personally would NOT feed a different kind of kibble every day because I ersonally don't see the NEED, and, because I think it really puts you deep in the hole if you ever need to figure out why Fifi has hot spots.  Fresh wholesome foods far less frequently cause allergic problems than do the processed kibbles.

Ok, so I have read the entire thread and am interested!!  I have recently discovered, as I have posted before, that my one of my Shih Tzus is allergic to poultry.  I know this now because my husband, who feeds them scraps sometimes, decided to 'forget' and feed him a scrap of chicken.  For two days he was sick and listless.  I feed NB Venison and Brown Rice and he is doing GREAT on it.  I am interested in rotating to the NB Salmon and Sweet Potato just to rotate the protein source.  BUT.. I am petrified that he will lapse back into an allergic state.  He probably wont but he had been sick for so long that seeing him peppy and ear infection-free has been great and I am scared to put him back to where he was.  Should I just jump in and try it and go back to Venison if I notice a negative change?
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