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Re: [pyrnet] Re: Pano and diet

Hi Joe,
Couldn't resist putting my 2 cents in on this one. ( Being one of the ones who has been in the breed even longer than Joe has...not often we get to brag about being old! :)!! We, too, have heard all the various theories about pano. In our case, however, the one thing that has always worked for us is to take the puppy off puppy chow and put it on adult or even senior food. I have no idea why this works ...it is just one of those things that we were told eons ago and always recommend to people whose puppies come up with pano. In every case, they call me back to tell me that it has worked in a matter of days. We regularly take our pups off puppy food by 3 months and (knock on wood) have not had any pano in the last 8 years. Granted, we have not had as many cases as Joe has, but we have had the opportunity to talk to quite a number of people whose pups have had the problem. The times we have had a pup with pano, it has always been the largest pup in the litter. Also, there has not been any indication of it being inherited, i.e. usually only one pup in a litter and has not turned up in other relatives. We have not had any pano since we began feeding our dogs large breed puppy chow.
Charlotte Perry
p.s. Joe, how was the French National, what did you think of the winning dogs, etc.
----- Original Message ----- From: <JGentzel@aol.com>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [pyrnet] Re: Pano and diet


<<I do know that from the "get go" with My own dogs, I was advised by the breeder to feed a good quality adult food ONLY~~ never puppy food ~~>>

My point is I can find no evidence to support this concept. Being a breeder myself with experience and association with the problem, I disagree that this makes no difference as long as the food source is complete and of high quality. One more urban legend, in my opinion. I am open to any data otherwise that is reliable and that is why I asked initially.

Joe


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