Food & supplement recommendations for 16 year old collie cross please 🐶

[Di&Willow]

Hello everyone,

My lovely girl Willow is 16, she has monthly liberalla injections and has been grain free for years as she has a sensitive stomach.

FOOD
Over the last year or so, she’s become even more sensitive and has reacted badly to some really good grain free senior brands she was fine with before, like Forthglade, Lilly’s kitchen, Edgar Cooper among them. I think it’s botanicals, and yucca, also cranberries that seem to set her off. I’ve struggled to find her plainer foods, she seems to do well on James well beloved grain free senior, I was thinking about trying Harringtons grain free but they don’t do a senior range. I‘d be really grateful for any recommendations.

SUPPLEMENTS
Willow has been on yumove for years, the advanced variety for the last 3 years or so. But I noticed James well beloved has glucosamine so I reduced her dose to 1 yumove tablet a day, any advice again, gratefully received.
I tried giving Willow Salmon oil as an added supplement but had to stop as it gave her the runs.

Thank you for reading and all advice gratefully received

 

[Atemas]

I‘d be really grateful for any recommendations.

Hi. I used to give my black Lab (sadly no longer with us) Symply Senior Food. You’d have to check the ingredients but she did well. I do rate Symply - my current Lab has their Turkey kibble.

 

[Di&Willow]

Thank you… I will look them up

I‘m sorry for your loss, Willow has made many black lab friends over the years

 

[Cath]

Sorry I can't help you, but I am sure other members will be able to. She looks a lovely girl.

 

[Jacqui-S]

I use Fish4Dogs food either in salmon or sardine, depending on whish is on offer.
They have just started doing a senior version of the salmon, so ordered this for the first time.
Grain free, high in Omega3.

Do you use golden paste?I think it has helped Lilly.

 

[Lab_adore]

Willow is beautiful, welcome to our forum. I don't have any advice but just wanted to say hello

 

[Anne123]

I would say if she is doing relative well on James well beloved grain free I would stick to that. Too much changes will give her more belly problems.

 

[M.F.]

I second the golden paste (turmeric paste). And perhaps feed a whole raw sardine (for the omega 3) rather than giving the oil; might be less rich on the stomach. I give my boy whole raw sardines or white bait (tiny oily fish). I don’t like feeding oil in capsules because oil can be volatile and go rancid quickly.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Hi and welcome to you and Willow!

And perhaps feed a whole raw sardine (for the omega 3) rather than giving the oil; might be less rich on the stomach. I give my boy whole raw sardines or white bait (tiny oily fish).

I agree with this. My old boy (now passed) loved his whole sardines and I felt they were one of the many things that kept him moving into his senior years.