I mentioned a few posts back that we need to switch away from Royal Canin brand before the puppies get addicted to the oily flavor. It turned out that we only had enough RC to mix the next 4 meals with the new Hills food.
That means the 5th meal was 100% Hills. Kovy inhaled it and didn't notice a different. Muji, however, wasn't impressed with the sneaky change in flavor. She took a few bites and started crying and trying to howl (puppies learning how to howl is a really awful sound).
I stood my ground and let her cry it out, and eventually she took a few bites. Finally, I went old-school on her and filled her bowl with warm milk, which she lapped up happily. That filled her stomach, and perhaps showed her that it's either "new food or milk." She apparently likes to eat more than drink, because she ate the next meal just as fast as Kovy!
We had almost gone out to buy another bag of Royal Canin to ease the transition, but that proved to be unnecessary.
Along the lines of puppy food, we've been doing research on different brands. Turns out there's a lot out there I didn't know about dog food. Checking out these two sites:
http://www.dogfoodproject.com/
http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/
you can learn everything about the ingredients and additives in every dog food out there. It turns out that the new Hills food isn't exactly the best. After some price and reviews comparisons, I think we decided that organic dog food is the way to go. Specifically, we decided on Nature's Domain (from Costco), but Taipei Costco doesn't carry it, so we're still in the market for a new brand of food.
On the way home from Costco, we stopped at a dog product store and looked at some more food brands and took home some samples of Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul dog food. It checks out on both those sites, so it might be what we end up phasing in when our bag of Hills is running low.
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