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The standard is to switch gradually over 10 days, with a 10% change per day. So the first day, you would feed 90% old 10% new, the second 80% old 20% new, and so on until you get to 100% new. So you had the right idea, but you need to do it over a slightly longer period of time.

I think that the quality of food involved is more the issue than your method of transition. You'll read a lot on BPO about quality foods. Purina really isn't a great food, so if you're open to a more high quality food I would reccomend it and we can deffinately help you find a better one that is still within your budget.

But purina is actually a better food than ol roy, which is probably the worst dog food on the market. Ol roy is almost all filler that passes right through undigested, so his stomach probably needs time adjusting to actually having things to digest. There's a product by eagle pack called holistic transitions that is supposed to help aid with food transitions that you could try (I've never tried it myself).

Ideally I think the best thing you could do would be to switch more slowly to a higher quality food, and I probably wouldn't use a lamb formula unless he has shown an intollerance to beef and chicken formulas.

She is not doing too great today. The wound is stapled better than it was before, but it is so oozy. There's a yellow discharge that keeps oozing out, and there was a little more blood today. I cleaned the fur on her legs but more is oozing out on to her fur, so we'll be cleaning it again tomorrow.

The toughest part is that even though I know she has an infection, she doesn't. And she's starting to get restless and active again. She is SOOOO hard to keep "quiet". It's easy to keep her on a leash and restrict her outside time, but it's really hard to keep her still in the house - especially when I can't put her in the crate! I don't want to put her in the crate cause she needs her cone on and she doesn't fit too great in tbhe crate with the cone on. I bought nand x pen today so maybe that wilpl help but it's SO hard to stop my little spastic troublemaker from being a spastic troublemaker!

be sure not to allow her to be getting off and on a raised human bed....unless of course you put her on and off.

We put her on and off the human bed. She sleeps on the the bed with us every night so she was only happy when she we put her on the bed with us.

I just discovered she has razor burn where they shaved her. I called the vet and they said its normal and I can put some neosporin on it... Poor girl 

She was wimpering through the night so I slept with her on the floor until the morning when she had enough energy to get on the bed.

She's got more energy now and has kept down her breakfast so far. I'm letting her keep the cone off when I can keep an egal eye on her, but I have to watch her closely cause she was trying to lick at her belly this morning when she had the cone on - it was so sad to see her with her little leg over the side of the cone so frustrated she couldnt't get to her belly.

No they didn't keep her overnight - our old vet did, but our current vet doesn't. Penny was done by noon and they kept her until 6:30 and now she's home and so sad looking. She's on pain meds and has eaten and had a little water, but she's obviously really sore. We had to lure her with hamburger rice just to get her outside to potty, and then later she had an accident while laying in her bed, so I had to take it away to clean it, and then I ran to the store to get a new one, but she hates the new one. And now she isn't even laying on a bed or a comforter but I don't want to make her if she'd rather be on the wood floor.


I still can't find the camera cable so I can't post the good pics from when she first got home, but he's a cameraphone pic of her right now

My baby Penny got spayed today. She looks so sad in her cone (pic to follow once I find the camera cable).

My question is: is it normal to have a small amoung of blood come from the staples? The did staples instead of stiches which I don't like because they look too loose, and a few minutes ago she whimpered and got off the bed and when she moved I saw a little spot of blood on the bed. It's only a tiny bit of blood but I don't remember this happening before. Should I be worried?

He's adorable! I especially like the pic with the close up of his nose 

I am sorry for your loss