Kasiks Dog Food?

[zd262]

Anyone heard of Kasiks dog food?

Bubba has been on a terrible food roller coaster since he started to refuse to eat his ProPlan and it was recommended to us by the pet store. It is the "starter food" for their other food "FirstMate" which is higher quality and has more meat, but also richer (info from the pet store). It's a Canadian brand I think.

[Rosy]

However all kinds of food that we buy for them, we don't know what exactly the ingredients is. Homemade dog food is better than else that we buy on petstore because we already know what exactly ingredients that we put and add to their food and they all fresh and they cook with loved.

[JenC]

Never heard of it. What did his breeder feed or was he a rescue?

[Tanya]

interesting that they use chicken fat in the lamb food (not a bad thing unless one wanted a chicken free food). they have a note saying it shouldn't impact those with chicken allergies though...

not finding FirstMate to be "better" on paper per say. Potato is the first ingredient on a few of the grain free ones?

Did you play hard ball with the food? how long was he on the proplan? how many foods have you tried? is he otherwise healthy?

[zd262]

JenC - He came from the breeder on Diamond, but he had horrible diarrhea on that so we switched him to ProPlan when he was around 5 months old.

Tanya - We did play hard ball with the food for weeks! He would eat very small amounts. We got a new bag so it wasn't like the bag was bad. It was extremely out of character for him, so I wouldn't say it was even "pickiness" necessarily. Still a mystery to me. He was on the proplan for almost a year. He is otherwise healthy. We've tried PureVita & Arcana and we tried Fromm before we tried the ProPlan, but he didn't do well on that either. We also cut his food back from 4 cups to 3 cups even though he is looking a little on the skinnier side as a result (still healthy, but he's already a very lean dog who gets a lot of exercise)

[JenC]

I think a lot of things play into the food and why they don't have solid stools. And refusing to eat sometimes has nothing to do with the food. Heat, exercise, personality of the dog.

Wrigley had diarrhea for a long time. Over-abundance of bacteria in the gut that was cleared up with Tylan. She gets very distracted when eating too. Sometimes it's hard to get her to eat. It's not the food, it's her. Our first lab had to be hand-fed or fed through games because he was so stubborn about eating.

I can't say what's up as I am not in your shoes, but my guess is that if you stopped changing foods, settled on ONE and stuck to your guns, they problem would go away.

[Berna]

Not bad, but not good either, ingredient-wise.