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By Ty B on Mar 6, 2010 | Reply

Iams, Ol Roy, and Purina are all pretty lousy foods. Research some premium foods.
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By oregano13 on Mar 6, 2010 | Reply

All three of those foods are horrible unhealthy choices for your dog. Fast him for 12 hours to clear his system since he’s poorly and buy a quality brand like Wellness, Solid Gold, Innova, Canidae, or Blue Buffalo and give him a few weeks to adjust to it. It’s likely all the sudden food changes that are causing your dog problems.
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By alias boxer on Mar 6, 2010 | Reply

Read reviews on all three of those foods here:
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/

You’ll find that they’re all pretty lousy =/
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By debby d on Mar 6, 2010 | Reply

I would go back to Old Roy, seems like he can tolerate it better.
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By Shih Tzu Mom on Mar 7, 2010 | Reply

Go to this site and research the different brands of dog foods and how they stack up to the rest. You might pay a little more, but it would be worth it to have a healthy dog with no digestive problems from the food.

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/

Personally, I prefer to feed our dog the Merrick brand dog food, because it contains no fillers, no animal by products, etc. And, our dog loves it so much, we even use it as a treat to teach her tricks. (as long as it’s coming from our hand, she thinks it’s a treat.), lol.
Right now she is eating the Merrick’s "Grandmas Pot Pie"; and it has frozen potatoes, peas, and carrots. She picks these out first, before she eats the rest.

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By Bopper on Mar 7, 2010 | Reply

Try good foods! Those are all really Bad for many dogs. Please check out Royal Canine, Innova, Prairie, Canidae, or Healthy Balance rolls. Google will provide many great names/answers for your question.

If your dog is getting sick more than likely he’s dehydrated. Make sure plenty of water.

In the mean time boil some chicken and rice and mix with cottage cheese.

Check ingredient of food. First 3 (at least first 1!) I believe should be meat product. Those have corn as the first which is a huge problem for dogs. Especially Hypoallergenic doggies.

Have you taken him to the vet since you had him? Some vet’s will give your first visit for free!

GL
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By Dogtrainer22 on Mar 7, 2010 | Reply

If you have access to a food like California Natural, I would mix a little CN into a bowl with mostly the Ol Roy and just keep slowly reducing the Ol Roy and increasing the California Natural over the course of 1 week. CN only has about 5 ingredients in it- you could use any really high quality dog food with a short ingredients list, Wellness Ocean fish has a pretty simple formula also. I would also add in a little bit of white rice- cooked a little to sticky. That should help with his loose stools.

Sometimes dogs that have diarrhea problems can have an intolerance to the meat source in the food and its not as pronounced with the crappier food because that food doesn’t have as much of the offending meat.
If your dog continues to have loose stools even after adding rice and switching over more slowly , make sure you see the Vet (I’d give it a few more days) your dog could have Giardia or another parasite that is causing the diarrhea.
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By darksong17 on Mar 7, 2010 | Reply

I’d switch to a higher quality dog food. Ol’ Roy, Iams, and Purina are all poor quality dog foods (especially Ol’ Roy). What you have to remember is to switch foods /gradually/. Switching foods too fast will cause upset tummies.

Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to the dump cheap leftovers and things that aren’t safe for human consumption (from human food processing plants) into their foods. Will it kill your dog? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.

Corn is a low quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.

Thankfully, there are some excellent dog foods being made these days that include organic, human grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.

Examples of low quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Pedigree, Kibbles n’ Bits, Beneful, Ol’Roy.

Examples of high quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Canidae All Life Stages, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature’s Variety Prairie, Nature’s Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix, Timberwolf Organics.

Although the high quality foods are more expensive, you’re getting what you’re paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients… this means you typically need to feed far less of the high quality food than you would of the low quality one. Which also means less poop!

Before following your vet’s food recommendation, keep in mind that vets get /very/ little nutritional training during their schooling. Besides that, what training they /do/ get is usually sponsored or taught by the crappy pet food companies! They also often get paid to sell some of their products at their clinics (Science Diet, Royal Canin etc.)

A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Many of the high quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include: Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature’s Variety Instinct, Orijen, Horizon Legacy, Merrick Before Grain, Canidae Grain Free All Life Stages, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now! and Sold Gold Barking At The Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can’t find a food, most of the high quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.

Another option, if you can’t find anywhere around you that sells good foods, is to order your pet food online. Here’s an excellent place to do so: http://www.petfooddirect.com/store/

Remember that foods should be switched gradually (mixing new slowly in with the old over about a two week period), especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.

Another option for feeding dogs is to feed raw. This is something that should be thoroughly researched before being attempted:
http://www.barfworld.com/
http://www.rawfed.com/
http://www.rawlearning.com/
http://www.wysong.net/controversies/rawmeat.shtml

Also remember that freefeeding (leaving food down) is the fast lane to canine obesity. Make sure to have scheduled feeding times based on the feeding instructions on your dog’s food.

More on dog food:
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index.php?page=main (Learn how to determine the quality of your dog’s food.)
http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/ (Dog food reviews. Four stars is a decent food, five stars is a great food, and six stars is an excellent food.)

Darksong~
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By candice h on Mar 7, 2010 | Reply

Terriers are especially sensitive to fillers in dog food. Find your little guy some food without corn or wheat. So, Iams, Ol Roy and Purina all have corn. What you save on the food will cost you many times over at the vet.

Most terriers are horribly allergic to corn.

He sounds cute. Poor little guy! Try some Nutro Chicken, rice and oatmeal. There are better foods but this is a good start. In the meantime, cook some white rice and add it to his food as it will help firm up his stools and recover from the diarrhea.
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