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Re: Not good. Sick dog
« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2014, 01:21:10 PM »
Out of curiosity, what dog food do you use?

We had two of our dogs come down with similar symptoms a week or two ago for no apparent reason. Both recovered within a day or two.

I buy the kirkland brand food from Costco.

Nature's Domain? The stuff in the blue bag with salmon? I ask because we keep pretty close track of the dogs and they haven't been in any areas I would expect a reaction like that. We were theorizing it was bad batch of food.

We feed Costco's Nature's Domain.

I had been buying the salmon until my dog got sick.  She wouldn't eat or drink and would just lay in her dog house.  I threw the dog food all out and switched to the red bag.  Within a day she was back to normal.....

Diamond Brand Sport Dog Food, our labs love it plus their coats are always nice and shinny! :tup: Cenex/ Counrty Store has it for $38.00 for 50 lbs.
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Re: Not good. Sick dog
« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2014, 03:24:33 PM »
Out of curiosity, what dog food do you use?

We had two of our dogs come down with similar symptoms a week or two ago for no apparent reason. Both recovered within a day or two.

I buy the kirkland brand food from Costco.

Nature's Domain? The stuff in the blue bag with salmon? I ask because we keep pretty close track of the dogs and they haven't been in any areas I would expect a reaction like that. We were theorizing it was bad batch of food.

We feed Costco's Nature's Domain.

I had been buying the salmon until my dog got sick.  She wouldn't eat or drink and would just lay in her dog house.  I threw the dog food all out and switched to the red bag.  Within a day she was back to normal.....

Rumor has it if the food sits too long on the pallet and/or at the wrong temperatures it will go bad. One of the things about Costco is it usually doesn't sit out for long. However...

I've got a lead in town on "reasonably" priced bags of Fromm dog food. I'll be switching my crew off Nature's Domain and onto Fromm in the next week or two and see how that goes.

To date the most consistent trouble free food I have fed them has been Purina Pro Plan performance, but the price of that is now hovering around the price of a bag of Fromm so...

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Re: Not good. Sick dog (update)
« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2014, 03:27:52 PM »
Best food I have found is the Eukanuba performance but at like $60 a bag its hard to justify. My pup is still eating 6 cups a day and my older dog 3 so I go through 50 lb bags pretty quick
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Re: Not good. Sick dog (update)
« Reply #33 on: April 18, 2014, 12:13:01 PM »
I am happy to hear your dog is doing well, & I commiserate with your financial distress as well.  But as you stated they are "Family".

 


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