We have three dogs, A Great Dane, a Italian Gray hound/ Boston Terrier mix and now a wire hair fox terrier.
We have tried a number of Dog foods, especially with the first two...seeing how they are both very lean with minimal body fat. We had to find a dog food that would keep meat on their bones, be good for their bowels and something they liked.
We have tried the store brands and regular Purina...a bunch of junk that is.... They couldn't keep on weight, their bowel movements were a mess... what else could you expect....
We tried the super expensive kind made with great ingredients and it's suppose to make them fuller so they eat less and poop less due to absorbing most of the good nutrients and be better al round..... Well that didn't work. Our Dogs dropped so much weight, you could see their ribs start to be bony...their poop was firmer but we had to feed them way more than recommended...which made the cost go higher (the price is supposed to average out because your supposed to feed them less.....) Still, even with more feedings they didn't gain weight....
Then our little dog started to boy cote eating because she decided she didn't like it. She seriously wouldn't eat but a few bites. We had the vet check them all out, no worms or anything they weren't sick we just had to keep looking for the right food and in the mean time try putting eggs on it or mix in leftovers. We did that and she would push around the dog food and eat the other stuff...so pick she was!
It wasn't until we dog sat another dog who ate Beneful Healthy weight, then she started to eat! She loved it and would eat his food. So we went out and bought The Original Beneful and all the Dogs loved it, they ate it up. They eat once a day and are satisfied, their bowels are firm and they quickly gained their weight back. We did mix in a bag of puppy beneful to help with quick weight gain but then after that first bad we just used the original. We would use a bag of the puppy food during growth spurts and the end of fall to help maintain a healthy weight.
We love it and can't say enough good things about it and the cost is sufficient...more than others but less than those high dollar ones. I know what the others say about the first ingredients and what not...but I know what works for our dogs and this is it!
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