This post is rather niche, so my apologies in advance. If you don’t have a dog then you’ll probably want to simply go no further and – perhaps, if you’re after more reading material – click on over to the new post I’ve written on The Uphill. If you have a dog and you can get it to eat without a problem then ditto – you’ll probably want to click away.
But if you, like me, have a dog with a constantly dicky tummy, you might find this of interest.
Dexter the Cockapoo is now three. He’s had ongoing issues with his stomach since almost the first month he came home – soft stools, no stools, weird stools, blockages and periods of simply not eating. Always investigated at the vets but never with a real solution. After the last serious bout of tummy stuff (it was well over a year ago, thankfully – and Mr AMR still swears that it was because the dog licked a toad at the farm we were renting a barn from!) the vets put Dexter on a Royal Canin Sensitivity Diet, which cost about seventy-eight million pounds a day. He started off eating it very well but soon went off it and had to be coaxed and bribed with bits of rice and “treats” mixed in to get him to eat anything.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I started researching dog foods online to try and find one that he would readily eat but that wouldn’t upset his stomach, and I came across this brilliant website: Dog Food Directory.
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