food for sensitive stomachs

[kfrosland]

KC is my 9 month old dobie. Her mother is a fawn and father is a red. I got her spayed last month and since then, the food we were feeding her no longer agreed with her. We were feeding Red Paw dog food and we switched her to Diamond lamb and Rice. KC is one of several dogs we have and she is the only one that cannot tolerate this food. My wife is no novice to dogs, she has shown her miniature longhaired dachshunds for years and is quite knowledgeable about foods and animals in general. She is also an animal control officer so as you might guess, we do a lot of rescuing. Anyway, back to the matter at hand. I don't know if the spaying had anything to do with KC's food intolerance to the red paw dogfood so I thought I would post this to see if anyone else had similar problems after a spay. I'm also open to any suggestions as to what others may feed dogs with sensitive stomachs.

I posted on this forum earlier today and when I went back to view it to see if anyone replied, I couldn't find the post so if for some reason, you see another post by me, that is why, its the same exact topic. I may have done something wrong with the posting.

[Sue J]

We've never had that issue with dogs that were spayed. Will she eat cooked chicken and rice? That usually doesn't upset stomachs.

[kfrosland]

I'm sure she will, I will give it a try. She's eating her Diamond food but I think she could use some extra pounds as well plus, I'm not real crazy about the diamond food.

[Sue J]

I'm adding chicken and rice to Jett's diet as I also would like to see a little more weight on her too although I don't think she's medically underweight.

[Dravens]

Which diamond food are you feeding? They are not all equal. Other than the diamond brand they also produce as I recall, Premium Edge, Professional brand, costco's Kirkland brand, Country Value brand, Chicken Soup brand, Nutra Gold, Nutra Nuggests, Taste of the Wild, and although they do not own it they are manufacturing Canidae.

The only diamond label food I have ever used was the diamond naturals line.

In doing a google search I ran across this
http://www.thepetfoodlist.com/petfoods_pg1.htm
which also shows under
Artemis - Holistic Pet Food
Fresh Mix Line, Osopure Line, and AgaRx Line is made by Diamond Pet in Lathrop, CA.

and on http://www.thepetfoodlist.com/petfoods_pg3.htm
under Solid Gold Health Food for Pets
Dry food made by Diamond, in Meta, Mo and Lathrop, CA

[Dobs4ever]

I don't feed Diamond but have heard that Lamb and rice forumla's are harder on the digestive tracks of Dobermans.

[kfrosland]

thanks everyone for your ideas. The diamond i feed her is of the naturals line, all the other dogs get Red Paw. She still has very loose stool so I might just take her into the vet.

[RKCM]

Which diamond food are you feeding? They are not all equal. Other than the diamond brand they also produce as I recall, Premium Edge, Professional brand, costco's Kirkland brand, Country Value brand, Chicken Soup brand, Nutra Gold, Nutra Nuggests, Taste of the Wild, and although they do not own it they are manufacturing Canidae.

The only diamond label food I have ever used was the diamond naturals line.

In doing a google search I ran across this
http://www.thepetfoodlist.com/petfoods_pg1.htm
which also shows under
Artemis - Holistic Pet Food
Fresh Mix Line, Osopure Line, and AgaRx Line is made by Diamond Pet in Lathrop, CA.

and on http://www.thepetfoodlist.com/petfoods_pg3.htm
under Solid Gold Health Food for Pets
Dry food made by Diamond, in Meta, Mo and Lathrop, CA

Thanks for the links. There are many expensive foods on the list that are an eye opener.

Diamond Natural, lamb and rice wouldn't be hard to digest.

You can take a chicken put it in the pressure cooker and cook it to mush, bones and all. Bone Meal is very good for the dogs. Just make sure the bones are mush. Putting this over the food will help her gain weight. Pasta is good too but too much too soon isn't great either. This is what I use to cook when I handled Chih that wouldn't eat. We also used those baby weiners for treats.

I wouldn't think being spayed would affect her eating. Our old girl was just fixed and she didn't eat well for a few days but recovered quickly.

Best of luck and let us know.

[kfrosland]

I changed foods from Diamond to Eukanuba salmon and rice and she seems to be doing pretty good. She's only been on the food for 4 days and already she is having firmer stools. I hope this is the one that works for her, she's lost a lot of weight. With the spay and changing foods, she is obviously very suseptible to stress. I'm hoping we are on the mend now. Thanks everyone for your posts.
Keith