When I got Tara from the Humane Society, they sent me home with a bag of Science Diet puppy. She was approximately 3 months old. She made big poops and had gas, and the ingredients were disgusting to me (I'm on the Neanderthin diet - no grains, no processed foods at all). I think it was 2 days later, after lots of reading on the internet, I went to the grocery store and bought her real food. Ground beef, ground turkey, eggs, chopped broccoli. I didn't bother phasing her off the packaged food, just started cooking for her right away. She was severely underweight with every rib showing and her hip bones sticking out, so I fed her as much as she'd eat, 3 times a day. She went from 10lbs the day I got her to 12lbs in 7 days, with better and smaller poops and no gas. However, I have a tiny refrigerator/freezer, and limited time, so I continued searching the internet for a kibble that seemed healthy to me: I found Innova Evo.
She was a bit over 4 months when I started phasing Evo into her homecooked. She now gets Evo for breakfast and dinner, and 2-3 Evo cookies for lunch. I add a raw chicken neck to her breakfast every day except Saturday when she gets a can of sardines packed in water (no salt added). She also gets bites of any fruit I'm eating (apple, pear, banana, cherries, blueberries, strawberries, etc), and the occasional egg or piece of chicken meat or beef.
Tara has the softest shiniest dog coat I've ever seen - everyone comments on it. She recovered from being spayed in about 36 hours (boy, was it hard to make her "rest" for 10 days!), makes very little poop, and has NO gas. I'd rather be feeding her raw/homecooked, but Evo seems to be fine for her. The only ingredient I don't like in Evo is the potatoes - I suppose they needed something in it to make it take a kibble shape, and it isn't a grain, anyway.
So that's my Evo story, for what it's worth
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http://www.dogster.com/?275276]http://www.dogster.com/?275276[/link] and leave her a bone! *grin*