We just switched our guy to EVO (chicken formula) after him not eating anything we tried for 2 months (even with smelly wet stuff on it) and he started to look pretty skeletal. It's very disheartening when complete strangers walk by you and say "Oh my, what a skinny Vizsla" loud enough so you can hear. Meanwhile, they're walking with their overweight lab...lab...I've had labs, they eat anything! But I digress...
The jury is still out on the high protein nature of this food. My husband belongs to a vet forum due to nature of his job and, when asked, the vets said there has not been scientific evidence that a high protein diet disrupts kidney function. In fact, they cited other foods that have just as high a protein content. I'm not trying to dissuade, obviously, but I too read a few reviews of the food where they talked about kidney problems with their toy breeds. Our pup (1 y.o.) is highly active and so far no problem. But we our watching in case it is an issue. Also, you don't feed as much as a regular food.
This is the only food so far that he gets SO excited about and licks his bowl clean. And, I like the fact it is grain-free as we started to suspect he had a food allergy (our vet does not think so).
But, I moved to EVO because I started to look into a RAW diet but know I'm the type of person who can't commit to the work! It sounds like that is starting to work for you...Is your new food called Taste of the Wild? I will see if it's available around here in case we decide the EVO isn't the way to go as per aforementioned issue. Sounds like switching up their protein has worked nicely for you as well.
Thanks for the info! I'm curious what other folks feed since we've been having some problems!
As a sidenote- Whilst at the grocery store once, just to see what the ingredients on some of those less expensive foods was since I was doing all this research with food...looked kind of scary...corn was the #1 ingredient followed by fillers then some meat...that can't be good.
The jury is still out on the high protein nature of this food. My husband belongs to a vet forum due to nature of his job and, when asked, the vets said there has not been scientific evidence that a high protein diet disrupts kidney function. In fact, they cited other foods that have just as high a protein content. I'm not trying to dissuade, obviously, but I too read a few reviews of the food where they talked about kidney problems with their toy breeds. Our pup (1 y.o.) is highly active and so far no problem. But we our watching in case it is an issue. Also, you don't feed as much as a regular food.
This is the only food so far that he gets SO excited about and licks his bowl clean. And, I like the fact it is grain-free as we started to suspect he had a food allergy (our vet does not think so).
But, I moved to EVO because I started to look into a RAW diet but know I'm the type of person who can't commit to the work! It sounds like that is starting to work for you...Is your new food called Taste of the Wild? I will see if it's available around here in case we decide the EVO isn't the way to go as per aforementioned issue. Sounds like switching up their protein has worked nicely for you as well.
Thanks for the info! I'm curious what other folks feed since we've been having some problems!
As a sidenote- Whilst at the grocery store once, just to see what the ingredients on some of those less expensive foods was since I was doing all this research with food...looked kind of scary...corn was the #1 ingredient followed by fillers then some meat...that can't be good.
