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Permalink Reply by Kristen on August 4, 2009 at 5:51pm

I do not feed food with corn either. I prefer foods with limited grains and high meat and meat meal content. Now I have shiney hair all over my house.

Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on August 4, 2009 at 5:57pm

Much better shiney hair than dull! I also feed food with meat as the main ingredient...my dogs usually eat salmon!

Permalink Reply by Beth on August 4, 2009 at 6:05pm

Jack's food does not have corn as the primary grain (it's rice), but it does contain corn.

His prior food had corn as the primary grain.

His coat is always beautiful and we get lots of compliments on how shiny and white his coat is. However when he had chicken-and-corn food he tended to have slightly loose stools. Not sure if it was the chicken, or the corn.

The breeder where we got Jack was feeding Eukanuba, the plain chicken one, which does have corn, and she had quite a few champions.

IMO it depends on the dog.

Permalink Reply by Beauty and the Beast on August 5, 2009 at 12:50pm

Our breeder fed Eukanuba too. I wish I knew why. She gave us some when we picked up Shiro and he would not eat it at all, even if not fed anything else. That might be the reason why he was so skinny and light. I don't feed corn at all, rice gives him constipation. A bit of well cooked potatoes seems to work the best.

Permalink Reply by Beth on August 5, 2009 at 1:03pm

Maria, Eukanuba is actually considered a high-quality food, and lots of pros use it. The push to very expensive grainless foods is pretty new and Internet driven. Anyone can post an opinion online. I'm not sure what drives it, but I have my suspicions. We feed Iams ang Jack looks fabulous.

Permalink Reply by the Doaks on August 4, 2009 at 8:06pm

I totally agree! When we first got our dog, he ate purina puppy chow which has a lot of corn and he was pooping like 6 or more times a day. It was not very solid, either...and lighter in color. Now, we feed him Purina one puppy formula which has corn as only a small ingredient...he only has to #2 3 times a day usually which is great because my husband and I teach and will be gone all day here soon. I did puppy training at petsmart and our trainer really stressed the importance of lean-meat based dog food and I agree. He seems to have a lot more energy and he has leaned out a little since we switched him to the Purina. The great thing about corgis is that they are smaller so it's worth the money to pay for the higher quality food. Even with the Purina, we only spend about $18-25 a month on food because we can get it at Walmart.

Permalink Reply by John Wolff on August 4, 2009 at 8:22pm

Our first dog, Siri, developed quite nasty chewing-sores that disappeared after my wife switched her to raw meat. We suspect grain/corn food allergy was the culprit. We are fortunate in having a local supplier in Seattle (Darwin's) that delivers frozen bricks of raw meat to our door.
We do feed a VERY small amount of Wellness kibble -- like, a tablespoon or two per meal -- this softens the stool just a bit.
When they eat much kibble at all, their stools are soft, smelly, hard to pick up, and their breath gets bad.
We're sold on the raw meat and I don't even want to know what it costs.

Permalink Reply by Susan and Merlin on August 4, 2009 at 8:38pm

it's probably the probiotics in wellness that softens their stool for you... i've never been able to get a dog on wellness for some odd reason, even though my dogs are on a similar food with probiotics.

i used to toss a handful of innova in their kibble each day and it would make them less gassy... until i finally switched to a food with the probiotics.

congrats on the raw diet! i've heard awesome things, but never had the kahunas to make the switch myself (or the cash LOL).

Permalink Reply by Susan and Merlin on August 4, 2009 at 8:36pm

absolutely no corn, no wheat, no soy, no by-products. I'll feed my dogs from the table before i feed them crap.

Permalink Reply by Kyle, Megan and Loki on August 4, 2009 at 8:52pm

No corn wheat soy here either. Grainless fed actually, as grains highly dilute the food value. The protien spectrum in meats is considerably higher than grain and vegetable for usability to create tissue/maintain tissue. Its more of a what you see is what you get formula in this case. He also has trouble with foods containing potatoes.

Anyone elses corgi have a weird habbit of pooping too much outside and having good stool the first two times, then slowly getting worse (as he poos like 4 times needlessly ((last 2 are rather unsignificant).) He also seems to poo many times as he cannot stand still and go, he wanders around, continues sniffing, gets distracted, stops etc....kind of annoying really. A

Anywho loki gets very bored with food so I mix in pumpkin now and then (which helps with maintaining the good stool) or sprinkle powderred freeze dried liver on it and he tends to eat more.

Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on August 4, 2009 at 9:01pm

Many of my dogs poop at least 2 times. I think they're so busy wanting to get their morning playtime in that they don't want to take the time to finish.

I occasionally add a raw egg (we have our own chix) yogurt,or veggies (1-2 x's a week) and use up liver from the beef we buy too but I make up ice trays with liver and brown rice so I can pop them out when I want one...a good treat for their food!

Permalink Reply by Beth on August 4, 2009 at 10:04pm

Jack is also a wandering pooper. LOL He used to go three or four times, with the first stool being firm and each getting progressively softer and messier. Then we switched his food to lamb-and-rice and now he almost never has that problem. For some strange reason he still does it at one park we sometimes go to where there is a stream he plays in. But not as a day-to-day thing like he used to.

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