loveisokay
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When we got Aoife at eight weeks I asked about her diet as you do, & didn't change that aside from not feeding her mince (it's a bit too expensive for me at the moment, anyway). I fed her solely Iams' puppy dry food for a week - she was a bit indifferent to it, she'd sniff at it & walk away but occassionally would pick at it & let it roll out of her mouth & proceed to play with the kibble bit until she was hungry & would eat it. Her poo (God, the one thing I hate about owning & caring for a dog is talking about poo so much) was fine when she arrived but went down hill & became softer & softer. Eventually, I gave in since I was aware that she was the smallest in her litter & bought Pedigree wet puppy food for her, I added this with the kibble & she was much more interested. I haven't had problems with her wanting to eat since. The day after, she was wormed & then for a week to a week & a half she was so bad poo-wise. She was dripping it across the floor (she's paper trained due to me living in an apartment) & there were blood drips as well. I phoned the vet a couple of days after this was happening who said it was normal for puppies to do this after worming - & would be alright even if she carried on until the end of a second week - thankfully she didn't. She never really got better than the really wet, loose, drippy stools so I told the vet when she had her last vaccination. He prescribed a Hill's diet on the basis of what she was eating was too rich for her. She loved that, she was much better on it, no drips but still really soft. He said to feed her this for three to five days & put her back on the other stuff, which I did. She's back on the other stuff now as of Saturday & is heading the same was as before I believe with a really bad stools today.
This is where I need help and/or opinions. Do I buy more of this Hills diet food, for those of you who want to know what it is, or do I do as the vet said & feed her this "richer" food? I fear that if I carry on the Hills diet that she always will & it's really quite hard to get for me & actually quite expensive when it could be something she will get used to in time since she's only a puppy now. To be fair she is due a worming within the next week or so which might have an affect on all of this too.
This is where I need help and/or opinions. Do I buy more of this Hills diet food, for those of you who want to know what it is, or do I do as the vet said & feed her this "richer" food? I fear that if I carry on the Hills diet that she always will & it's really quite hard to get for me & actually quite expensive when it could be something she will get used to in time since she's only a puppy now. To be fair she is due a worming within the next week or so which might have an affect on all of this too.
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