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Date Posted: 13:17:31 05/17/07 Thu
Author: Konrad
Subject: my experience with nutro

Ive had a recent experience with nutro as well, and i hope i can contribute in reaffirming what everyone has been saying about nutro. As far as background goes, my dog is a 3 year old chihuahua/min pin mix, with a stomach of steel. I mean, this dog has accidently gotten into spoiled trash, dirt, all sorts of human food from pizzas to burritos, and at on point while i was away at work he managed to get into a whole sealed pack of greenies, and had taken down 9 greenies in one sitting before i caught him (his poop was green for 2 days, and ive sinced stopped feeding him greenies due to the risk of indigestion which im sure u are all aware of). He's eaten all these things before without diahrrea, vomiting, or any ill symptoms...which leads to the fact that food brand changes have always been easy for us. Well recently Ive noticed hes been having a lot of excessive shedding...more than i can attribute to just climate change. I did some research and realized that his diet was a large contributer to his skin and coat health, and proceeded to go to the local big chain pet supply retailer, and picked up a small bag of Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice small bites assuming that they were the best commercial food on the market for the same reasons why everyone else puts their pets on nutro. Regardless of his stomach of steel, I did the right thing, and started with a mix of a low percentage of nutro and a majority of his old food (Iams). I fed him for 2 days before he started vomiting bile, and shaking in the mornings (the only time he had shivered like this before was when he had a stomach infection of some sort that required antibiotics.) I knew it wasnt simply food transition problems, and searched online until i found this website. I stopped all the nutro, and have done a food change with Wellness. I pretty much switched him over to wellness in just 3 days, pretty fast i know but i was eager to get him off of nutro or anything food with wheat corn or rice filler) Hes doing great with no ill effects. As a matter of fact this is the most normal ive seen him in a couple of weeks, with a eagerness to eat that had gone missing for the past couple of weeks even before the food changes. For the 2 days that i fed him nutro though i noticed some things. First, it was like my dog was on crack. Nutro advertises that their food gives dogs more energy...but this was just absurd. He would wake up at 6am to play, toy in mouth. He normally doesnt wake up til 830, and that just cause he needs to pee. His thirst level did seem to increase, though i may attribute that to the "crack" effect. This was then followed by the sickness phase that i mentioned earlier. But the part that really conviced me was my roomates experiences with nutro. His dog has been on nutro since day 1, and his dog has always been insanely hyper, drinks lakes worth of water, and throws up often. All this time i thought that was the dogs character. Im convinced something is up with their food, and I hope you will listen if u havent already. Thanks to everyone whos contributed so far; you've shed light on a gray area and have helped many, including my own dog, and for that I thank you all.

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Re: my experience with nutro -- Carol, 06:19:18 05/20/11 Fri