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dogs eating TOTW- ever happen with yours?
I Switched my dogs from Nutro Natural Choice Lamb and Rice to Taste of the Wild Pacific stream.
It was a quick switch, only taking about 3 days. then over the course of a week 3 of them got diarrhea, followed by pure blood coming out. I took them to the vet and she said that I had done the switch too fast and they had gastroenteritis colitis and they were prescribed meds that cleared it right up.
I was talking to a client at my vet's office (I work there) whose dogs had the same thing happen after feeding TOTW, and a few people on forums I am on who did the switch gradually ALSO had this happen. All dogs were different breeds and different ages and sizes, but the thing they all had in common was the TOTW. Has anyone else had this problem with it?
I am no longer feeding this food, but found a comparable one.
ETA: I realize that the switch was too fast as I addressed that in my original question... the question was has anyone experienced problems with it when the dog was switched properly, as other people I know of have had problems.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
that can happen when dogs get switched from a poor quality food to a high quality food. also, nutro is filled with grains and fillers and TOTW is grain free, so it takes longer for the switch since you're going from an extremely high grain food to no grains at all. ive never heard of a 3 day switch, so im pretty sure thats what caused the upset. and for some dogs it takes longer for the switch. but if you're feeding something thats way better than nutro, then kudos to you. i love hearing people switch from grocery brand foods to high quality foods.
- Hazel86Lv 51 decade ago
you switched entirely WAY too quickly! The switch needed to be done over a 2 week period ESPECIALLY when going from Nutro to TOTW. Nutro is not all the great of food and has lots and lots of grains in it, where as TOTW has many different proteins and is much richer with no grains.
You did the wrong thing---your dog was on LAMB, and you switched to a food with NO lamb whatsoever...go ahead and read the ingredients compared to the Nutro.....Your dog's symptoms are because of your ignorance to the short amount of time you allowed your dog to adjust to such a dramatic change of food. Of course your dog could be allergic to something in that food like the tomatoes, blueberries, raspberries it contains that the other food didn't...but you could have caught this earlier without it getting to an extreme with the bloody diarrhea, but you just allowed the dog to eat big quantities of a new, richer food that its system was not used to.
My dog always had mild diarrhea with good quality foods, then I finally changed to TOTW and he is doing great. So many other dogs do great on this food as well...Maybe alot of those cases you saw were from the same problem with people changing the dog's diet too quickly, TOTW is one of the completely grain free foods out there, and switching so fast from any grain food to non-grain will always upset the GI system. This doesn't mean your dog will be great on TOTW, not every food (no matter how high the quality) is right for every dog.
- Anonymous5 years ago
I don't know exactly why some people don't eat mushrooms, but I have never heard that mushrooms grow where there has been dog urine. If that were true, my yard would be filled with mushrooms because my dogs and other dogs pee there and have done so for many years. There are a few mushrooms in my yard, in the right season, but they are not in the places where dogs have relieved themselves.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
yes