It all began during my lunch hour one afternoon. I dutifully let my dog out for her afternoon business, and praised her profusely cheering, "Good potty!" after she did outside what we were teaching her not to do in the house. Confident that she had finished, I let her back in so that I could scarf down my lunch. Not 10 minutes later, our slender little Whippet (see her pic on my profile page) astounded me by producing even more poop on our new carpet than I could have ever imagined. Amazed by the capacity of her bowels and disgusted by having to clean it up, I armed myself with our carpet cleaning garb but not before banishing her to the back yard to instill in her teenage brain that pottying is to be done anywhere but the carpet.

Desperate for answers, I quickly searched on-line and called the vet for more information. After exhausting my resources, all signs pointed to the same conclusion - change her food. The vet recommended Eukanuba, so that is what I set out to try on our poop-producing princess against the initial recommendations of our breeder.

Transitioning our dog into eating the Eukanuba Lamb & Rice Formula wasn't a problem at all. Upon first opening the bag, I gave her one morsel to taste. She ate it up as if it were one of her training bits that she loves so well. After three days of a 50/50 mixture to make the food switch less of a shock to her sensitive system, she was on an all Eukanuba diet. She licked her bowl clean each time, so luckily, we overcame the "What if she doesn't like it?" hurdle.

Next came the potentially unpleasant output test. On Delta's old breeder recommended formula called Maxximum Nutrition of the Chicken and Rice variety for active dogs, we noticed that her need to go was quite frequent, and her output volume seemed a bit above average. Whippets as well as their cousins the Greyhound and the Italian Greyhound possess the dubious distinction of a more sensitive than normal digestive system. After a few days on her all Eukanuba diet, she doesn't seem to be experiencing any digestive discomfort, her room-clearing wafts of fumes that she emits without warning have occurred much less frequently, and the volume is much less...errr...pronounced. Needless to say, my husband and I are pleased with the results. Her energy level is still high, and her coat and skin are still very healthy.

The ingredients include New Zealand lamb, brewers rice, corn meal, fish meal, ground grain sourghum, dried egg product, dried beet pulp, chicken fat (preserved with miexed Tocopherols, a source of vitamin E, and citric acid), brewers dried yeast, natural chicken flavor, dicalcium phosphate, potassium chloride, salt, choline chloride, dl-methionine, ferrous sulfate, vitamin E supplement, zinc oxide, ascorbic acid, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, beta-carotene, manganous oxide, vitamin A acetate, calcium pantothenate, vitamin B12 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Niacin, biotin, lecithin, rosemary extract, riboflavin supplement (source of vitamin B2), inositol, pyridoxine hydrochloride, (source of vitamin B6), vitamin D3 supplement, potassium iodide, folic acid, and cobalt carbonate.

Eukanuba makes a nutritional guarantee that this food provides complete balanced nutrition for all life stages according to animal tests administered by the Assn. of American Feed Control Officials. It also lists a 110% satisfaction guarantee on all packages.

This formula is best suited for adult dogs of all breeds that prefer lamb meat diet with no wheat, soy or artificial preservatives.

The size of the food is suitable for consumption by all breeds, and Delta, our novice dog food connoisseur has not choked on it, nor has she had to take each morsel aside and work at it to make sure it's small enough to inhale during each feeding.

As owners, we're quite satisfied with how well she's done on the food. It is quite a bit pricier than her old food ranging in price from $11-$12 for an 8-lb. (39 cup) bag at Petco. Needless to say, I am now less obsessed with my dog's output as there is less of it, and she won't leave her bowl on her own free will until every last bit of Eukanuba food is gone.

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