Your Questions About Organic Dog Food Sensitive Stomachs

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Natural Balance Ultra Premium Dog Food

Actor Dick Van Patten’s line of Natural Balance dog food is expensive, but reviews say its ingredients are the best you can buy for your dog (aside from making your own homemade dog food). Notable for its organic ingredients, quality meats and lack of by-products, the top ingredients in Natural Balance dry dog food include chicken, brown rice, duck, lamb meal, oatmeal, pearled barley, potatoes and chicken fat, supplemented with healthy extras like whole ground flaxseed, dried kelp and vitamins, the flaxseed should help with dry skin.

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Grocery store dog food or pet store dog food?

Most grocery store dog foods are about the same.
Pedigree is ok along those lines.

However it and the other grocery store foods are not premium foods and are filled with nasty things, and fillers.

Here is an article, be warned, after reading it you may never buy grocery store dog food again.

Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aua8_e86SfcQtZoX4bDx2yzL7BR.;_ylv=3?qid=20090520142033AATh6mU

Some of the top premium dog foods are
Merrick
Solid Gold
Blue Buffalo

Here is a great website that tells you how to rate your dog food, AND has some ratings of a lot of foods so that you can compare.

Http://www.bulldogbreeds.com/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=642

And here are the ones that are scored

94-100+ = A
86-93 = B
78-85 = C
70-77 = D
<70 = F

Here are some foods that have already been scored. If you don't see your dog's food here, ask and someone will score it for you.
Dog Food scores:

Alpo Prime Cuts / Score 81 C

Artemis Large/Medium Breed Puppy / Score 114 A+

Authority Harvest Baked / Score 116 A+

Authority Harvest Baked Less Active / Score 93 B

Beowulf Back to Basics / Score 101 A+

Bil-Jac Select / Score 68 F

Blackwood 3000 Lamb and Rice / Score 83 C

Blue Buffalo Chicken and Rice / Score 106 A+

Burns Chicken and Brown Rice / Score 107 A+

Canidae / Score 112 A+

Chicken Soup Senior / Score 115 A+

Diamond Maintenance / Score 64 F

Diamond Lamb Meal & Rice / Score 92 B

Diamond Large Breed 60+ Formula / Score 99 A

Diamond Performance / Score 85 C

Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance Ultra Premium / Score 122 A+

Dick Van Patten�s Natural Balance Venison and Brown Rice / Score 106 A+

Dick Van Patten's Duck and Potato / Score 106 A+

EaglePack Holistic / Score 102 A+

Eukanuba Adult / Score 81 C

Eukanuba Puppy / Score 79 C

Flint River Senior / Score 101 A+

Foundations / Score 106 A+

Hund-n-Flocken Adult Dog (lamb) by Solid Gold / Score 93 B

Iams Lamb Meal & Rice Formula Premium / Score 73 D

Innova Dog / Score 114 A+

Innova Evo / Score 114 A+

Innova Large Breed Puppy / Score 122 A+

Kirkland Signature Chicken, Rice, and Vegetables / Score 110 A+

Member�s Mark Chicken and Rice / Score 84 C

Merrick Wilderness Blend / Score 127 A+

Nature�s Recipe / Score 100 A

Nature�s Recipe Healthy Skin Venison and Rice / Score 116 A+

Nature�s Variety Raw Instinct / Score 122 A+

Nutra Nuggets Super Premium Lamb Meal and Rice / Score 81 C

Nutrience Junior Medium Breed Puppy / Score 101 A+

Nutrisource Lamb and Rice / Score 87 B

Nutro Max Adult / Score 93 B

Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice / Score 98 A

Nutro Natural Choice Large Breed Puppy / Score 87 B

Nutro Natural Choice Puppy Wheat Free / Score 86 B

Nutro Natural Choice Senior / Score 95 A

Nutro Ultra Adult / Score 104 A+

Pet Gold Adult with Lamb & Rice / Score 23 F

Premium Edge Chicken, Rice and Vegetables Adult Dry / Score 109 A+

Pro Nature Puppy / Score 80 C

Pro Plan Sensitive Stomach / Score 94 A

Purina Benful / Score 17 F

Purina Dog / Score 62 F

Purina Come-n-Get It / Score 16 F

Purina One Large Breed Puppy / Score 62 F

Royal Canin Boxer / Score 103 A+

Royal Canin Bulldog / Score 100 A+

Royal Canin Natural Blend Adult / Score 106 A+

Science Diet Advanced Protein Senior 7+ / Score 63 F

Science Diet for Large Breed Puppies / Score 69 F

Sensible Choice Chicken and Rice / Score 97 A

Solid Gold / Score 99 A

Summit / Score 99 A

Timberwolf Organics Wild & Natural Dry / Score 120 A+

Wellness Super5 Mix Chicken / Score 110 A+

Wolfking Adult Dog (bison) by Solid Gold / Score 97 A

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ORGANIC just means it was grown with NO chemicals that is the only difference. From other food. ..any dog can tolerate organic.There is nothing in organic that is not in the non organic ‘regular’ food. Actually non-organic can have chemicals and treatments in or on it. It is the individual ingredients that a dog might be sensitive to. THE vet that said that about organic food is out of his mind…. Try a food with no grains, Like HONEST KITCHEN or ORIJEN 6-fish both are great. Most dogs cannot tolerate much grain and maybe the new food has too much grain and less real meat.(not by products or ‘chicken meal’ which is crap) …Grains just rot inside the dogs stomach they are very hard for a dog to digest and most cant., and they cause gas and loose stools etc. Corn is especially hard on dogs .

BUT it is NORMAL for a dog to get loose stool when you transition them too quickly to a new food. Some have loose stool til on the new food for a week or more before it firms up again.( you can add 1/4 cup canned pumpkin (not pumpkin pie mix!) to her food that can help firm it up while you are changing the food. It should take about a week (at least) to wean her off the old food and get the new food started completely. Try putting 3/4 of the old food and 1/4 new mixed for the first 2 days then 1/2 and 1/2 for a few days then 3/4 new and 1/4 old for a few days then all new. Some dogs can tolerate the change better if you do it gradually