There is a food on the market manufactured by Diamond called Chicken Soup for the Puppy Lover's Soul. It may sound sappy, but I will tell you what, it is a good brand of feed. It has all your Omega 3/6, as well as chicken and turkey as primary ingredients. It claims to have fish, rice, veggies, etc as well. It ain't cheap[:@], but the reason I like it over the Diamond Puppy is that the Diamond Puppy gave my pup the runs. This food is made by Diamond, though, but didn't cause the runs. I trust it becuase it's made by Diamond. Now here is a question for you all... My "pup" is now just over a year old (March 16), and I don't want to spend the money on the Chicken Soup anymore becuase I'm just out of college and trying to scrimp a little. The regular adult premium Diamond still gives my dog the runs, and the food that seems to not give him the runs is Pedigree large breed, which in my opinion is not a sufficient food for a hunting dog. Great housedog food, but it lacks fat, and in my opinion, protien (I prefer at least 26/18, but the dog don't know one from the other

). What do you think of mixing the Pedigree with the Diamond maybe 60%/40%? This is what I've been doing for about a week now, and no runny mess or noticeable discomfort to the dog

. I haven't been running him any, but I assume he could get enough of the "maintainance" nutrition from this mixture and perhaps run some this summer, and when fall comes around I could switch to Diamond high energy (24/20), which I know doesn't make him sick. This is a cheap food, too, but I felt my pup was burning too much energy on it to be using it as my off season maintainance feed. Talk about a high energy feed! Good discussions, fellas. -MIKE