Solid Gold Real Lamb, Brown Rice & Pearled Barley Whole Grain Recipe Dry Dog Food for Medium & Large Dogs, 4-lb bag

One of my English cocker spaniels has a gallbladder issue and he’s only 20 months old. The vet internist he’s seeing recommended we put him on a low fat diet, 10% or less, to help his gallbladder process his food better. I really wanted Solid Gold Hund ‘n Flocken which seems like a good quality food to work for us, but after almost two weeks of gradually adding it to his old food, he still has had diarrhea every single day. After remembering a similar problem last summer with Canidae changing their formula and adding peas, causing both our cockers to have diarrhea and making me have to switch to Purina Pro Plan, I’ve finally figured out it’s the peas in the Solid Gold formula that’s causing it. So I pulled him off it today and put him back on his Purina Pro Plan until I can find another low fat dog food. I’d keep him on PPP, but the fat content is too high at 16%. Research is showing me that waaaay too many companies are using peas in their recipes. Why? Well, obviously peas push up the protein content of the food so they can use less meat. I use The Dog Food advisor website for a nutritional breakdown of every single dog food I’ve ever fed my cockers and that is the consensus they’ve also reached about why so many companies now put peas into their formulas. More dog parents are finding out the hard way that their beloved dogs are having difficulty processing certain new ingredients in their dog food which to me is maddening. Ditto for all the soybean products and canola oil many dog food manufacturers are using today. Solution? Contact the dog food companies and ask that they remove these questionable ingredients or else you’ll have to switch to another dog food that doesn’t have them. Dunno if it’ll help, but we’ve gotta try something before we all have sick fur babies everywhere. Oh and one more thing, FedEx has been leaving my Chewy deliveries out in front of our garage to get rained and snowed on instead of on the front porch where the boxes are out of the weather. I called Chewy and reported the issue and then spent over an hour on the phone to FedEx requesting their drivers leave our boxes on the front porch like they have done for the past 12 years we’ve had Chewy deliveries. A couple weeks later the driver is now putting them on our front porch. Sometimes it does pay to call and complain. Just gotta be polite and persistent about it.