Trying to figure out best dog food for the pekingese mix we recently adopted. Foster mom fed her Wellness Core RawRev dry (the orange label bag which is grain free turkey). She would not eat it the first few days we had her, unless I topped it with wet food or chicken broth. I'm guessing now it was anxiety from the transition. I picked up some Purina wet food just to test out and she ate that, but then started getting really runny poop, so vet said to give her boiled chicken and white rice until that cleared up. I also had purchased some Blue Wilderness beef/chicken canned food from Target to try as I felt that may be a better food than the Purina. She seemed to like the small amount that she had of that. Anyways, tests came back that she has whip worms and hook worms (poor thing!). She just finished the first round of meds for that and is finishing up probiotics. Vet also gave us a few cans of Science Diet sensitive stomach, so I've been alternating between that and the chicken/rice. She started to have better poop for 2 days, so I started adding back in some of the Wellness kibble (which she now loves). And now her poo is runny again Not sure if I started the dry food too soon? I only have 1 1/2 cans of the Science Diet left, so I either need to pick up more of that at the vet tomorrow when I pick up heart worm meds, or get something else.
So, what is a good dog food (wet or dry) for small breeds? The vet suggested the Science Diet or Royal Canine, but I kinda feel like they push those brands because they sell the prescription stuff and I haven't really been a fan of the Science Diet when we had to use it for one of our cats. We try to do good quality foods for our cats (dry Natural Balance LID Duck and a variety of wet food by Merrick, Natural Balance, Halo, Instinct, etc. that we order from Chewy or Amazon subscription, so I'd like to do the same for the dog, once we settle on a food she likes and is doing well on. But I also don't want to break the bank on dog food! So happy medium of good quality/good price would be nice.