Thanks for the encouragement everyone. I guess one of my concerns about it too is that she seems to not be doing too well on it atm. Granted she's only been on it a bit over two weeks, and I'm still mixing in 1/3 Orijen for 2/3 Innova. I wanted to introduce it very slowly because Juno seems so intolerant of diet changes. (warning: the rest is me talking about her poo... if it's gross, i'm sorry. Feel free to skip to the end
) Even though I introduced it very slowly she still got diarrhea for a couple of days and now she's over that but her poo is not firm and easy to pick up the way it was before. It's still very mushy and gross and a lighter color. Is that normal? Am I taking too long to phase her over to the evo and that's why her stools aren't normal? Or do you think she's just having problems switching over to the evo? She seems fine otherwise. Her energy level is still the same. She has seemed a little more high strung the past couple weeks but I've been kind of high strung, so just attributed it to that. Plus she's unfortunately not getting enough exercise because I've been getting home from work late.
I'm just worried that maybe switching her to the evo wasn't the best thing for her. I can sacrifice other things to afford the orijen I decided. I also just recently finally had some money come my way from a car accident I was in a year and a half ago. That allowed me to pay off my debts this past week and I no longer have debt, so I have some more leeway in my finances then I originally thought I had. If I were to put her back on the orijen do I slowly start reintroducing it or giving it to her straight? I bought a big bag of the innova evo and have hardly used any of it, so that sucks and is a bit of a waste. ; ;
I don't know what to do.
I've been reading online also about The Honest Kitchen and thinking that maybe Juno would do really well on a raw diet. They have raw dehydrated food. Is that okay? Does she still get the same benefit from that as she would from raw that wasn't dehydrated first?
I know it's not good to constantly switch her food around and I haven't been, and if I need to put her back on Orijen for a while before switching her over to The Honest Kitchen then I could definitely do that. She's been on Orijen since she was about 3 months old, prior to that she was Purina One, which is what the breeder gave her, and I transitioned her off it about 6 weeks after getting her.
I'm just confused about what to do about food for her. She did well on the Orijen. Probably I shouldn't have tried to switch her off it. Although maybe I'm making a big deal out of nothing. It has only been a few weeks.