Making The Change

[schnauzer_luv]

I decided this week to change my mini schnauzer Mazza from eukanuba to royal canin after doing some reading...mostly because he was doing 4-6 poos a day!

Only problem is after a hectic week I only got time to buy the royal canin today and pup only has a cup of eukanuba left. I know this isn't enough to transition his food over properly, so I'm not sure what to do.

Should I buy another bag of euk and swap him over properly at the end of that bag?

OR

Change over faster than desired and just deal with runny poos for a couple of days (if thats the effect)?

Advice would be much appreciated!!

ETA: If anyone in the Wollongong area has a cup or two of eukanuba puppy or a sample pack and feels like solving my problem feel free to let me know Am willing to buy a small amount to solve the issue.

Edited November 8, 2007 by schnauzer_luv

[anthony mazzeri]

From my very short experience with my new Cocker pup, I just haven't seen that issue. When I got him, I started him immediately on Royal Canin (from the breeder's Pedigree PAL) and had no problems. Then when he got bored with the RC and stopped eating it after two months, I switched him over to Natural Balance straight away and again no problems. I literally just put two bowls down and let him choose which one to eat - he ate the NB and left the RC. Then when he got bored with NB in another month or so, I did the same thing again and he reversed back to RC overnight.

So basically he's been switched overnight three times in just three months with no issues at all, no diarrhea or anything. Nice firm stools all the way. I think the quality of the food has a lot to do with that though. So I'm guessing if I went from RC or NB to something cheap like Chum he'd get serious diarrhea, but not the other way around. Switching from a cheaper to a decent, or between two decent quality foods shouldn't be as much of an issue because I just haven't seen that "change over slowly or the dog will get diarrhea" thing. It simply hasn't happened in my case.