Need help with lite dog food
I need to switch wet and dry dog foods for my senior dogs. Both wet and dry need to be low in fat. These dogs are small breed so need to have a dry food with small kernels and both wet and dry have fl...
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Again, thanks for the replies. Jazzie in my opinion and my vets is not over weight. Maltese ideal weight is suppose to be between 4 to 7lbs. Jazzie is 8.8lbs. She was 7lbs when we rescued her in Nov 2013 but we could feel her ribs - she is a taller, longer Maltese than normal.
I believe the vet at the emergency hospital recommended a low fat diet because pancreatitis once gotten can come back and this is a way to hopefully minimize this.
I have checked all of the foods each of you have recommended and the crude fat is higher than what I am presently giving my dogs. At this point I am giving the Royal Canin GI low fat and adding some of the Nature's Variety Prairie with chicken, vegetables, and brown rice. This food has 6% min of crude fat and my vet is fine with this. I have to have can to feed meds in the am and pm. I have bought dry Blue Buffalo Healthy Weight Adult chicken and brown rice that has 6% min crude fat. They have been on senior Blue Buffalo chicken and rice dry. I might add some I/D low fat dry to this.
Yesterday she had her test done for cushings and it was off the charts for this so hopefully tomorrow I will get the med. Today she was tested again for diabetes and her levels were low so we have taken her off of insulin - yay!! She will get both of these tests again in 2 weeks to see how things are going.
I have 2 other Maltese, one is 4lbs and the other is 11.6lbs. The 11.6lb has an auto immune disease, which has her on chemo shots every 3 weeks, has diabetes and needs insulin 2x daily, and is on 2.5mg of prednisone every other day, She has been on prednisone since October 2007. I attribute her weight to preds. However we have tried to get her off of preds and have her shots of chemo every 4 weeks and she had a relapse so this works and leaving it alone!! Most dogs with this disease have a life span of 2-4 yrs and she is just about to enter her 8th yr!!
Again I thank everyone for the great advice. I took a lot of time to research
every food. I can't say I have made the right choice but I have tried. Your support has been truly appreciated!!
I believe the vet at the emergency hospital recommended a low fat diet because pancreatitis once gotten can come back and this is a way to hopefully minimize this.
I have checked all of the foods each of you have recommended and the crude fat is higher than what I am presently giving my dogs. At this point I am giving the Royal Canin GI low fat and adding some of the Nature's Variety Prairie with chicken, vegetables, and brown rice. This food has 6% min of crude fat and my vet is fine with this. I have to have can to feed meds in the am and pm. I have bought dry Blue Buffalo Healthy Weight Adult chicken and brown rice that has 6% min crude fat. They have been on senior Blue Buffalo chicken and rice dry. I might add some I/D low fat dry to this.
Yesterday she had her test done for cushings and it was off the charts for this so hopefully tomorrow I will get the med. Today she was tested again for diabetes and her levels were low so we have taken her off of insulin - yay!! She will get both of these tests again in 2 weeks to see how things are going.
I have 2 other Maltese, one is 4lbs and the other is 11.6lbs. The 11.6lb has an auto immune disease, which has her on chemo shots every 3 weeks, has diabetes and needs insulin 2x daily, and is on 2.5mg of prednisone every other day, She has been on prednisone since October 2007. I attribute her weight to preds. However we have tried to get her off of preds and have her shots of chemo every 4 weeks and she had a relapse so this works and leaving it alone!! Most dogs with this disease have a life span of 2-4 yrs and she is just about to enter her 8th yr!!
Again I thank everyone for the great advice. I took a lot of time to research
every food. I can't say I have made the right choice but I have tried. Your support has been truly appreciated!!