What Puppy Food does Bichon Frise Eat? (10 answers)

Randy: What Kind of puppy food does Bichon Frise eat?
I have a 4-month-old Bichon Frise that won't eat puppy food. I have tried Puppy Chow, Dog Chow, and Beneful.

If you have a Bichon Frise please tell me what kind of puppy food do they eat.

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Answer by ebonyruffles
A Bichon eats the same as any other puppy, so put the food down for 15 minutes then take up anything left. He'll soon realize this is his food and he has to eat or wait till next time. Don't cater to him or you'll end up with a fussy eater, just like kids.

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Answer by Pilar
We have a 4-month-old puppy. We feed her Royal Canin puppy /chiot (dry food ) and we mixed it with royal canin puppy food gel which comes in cans. Before we would only feed her dry food and she wouldn’t eat it then we start mixing it and OALA !!! she eats all her bowl. We give her half of the can and save it for the following day the rest and 1 cup of dry food. She eats all her bowl! Hope it helps!

Answer by Deborah
I have one bichon frise that will be 19 years old this month and I have a five-month-old Bishon frise. They both eat the Merrick canned for breakfast and the puppy eats dry food throughout the day also. they love this food & it’s made in the USA. they also get fresh pet for their evening meal & they both like it also. I try to give my pets good quality foods I believe it helps to keep them healthy.

Answer by Jordan S
better quality foods have more meat, therefore more appealing. and drizzling salmon oil over their food is very healthy and dogs love the taste. I recommend grizzly brand salmon oil.

Answer by abbyful
All the foods you mentioned are very low quality.

Here are some GOOD foods appropriate for a puppy:
* Canidae All-life-stages
* Merrick Puppy Plate
* Artemis Fresh Mix puppy
* Innova puppy
* Chicken Soup for the Puppy Lover's Soul

Put the food down for 15 minutes, if the dog doesn't eat it, pick it up. No treats, biscuits, table scraps, etc. The dog will learn to eat when it gets hungry.

Answer by Shar-Pei Mom
It's all about trial and error really. Your Bichon Frise is different from everyone else's dog so what they use might not be suitable for yours. Try taking the food you already have and spicing it up a little by adding that gravy stuff you can buy for pets, or maybe just mixing in a little bit of wet food with the dry.

Don't use it a lot as it can cause diarrhea if she's not used to it. Just use enough to put that yummy smell on it. If you don't wish to do that, then you just have to keep going through the food until you find the one she's comfortable with. Good Luck.

Answer by Pat martinovich
We have a 5 yr. old bichon she is wonderful not a great eater goes spurts but we feed her blue buffalo life protective formula for small breed adults funny part is she sorts her food eats the brown niblets leaves the black antioxidants on the floor our vet is aware and is not concerned. Good luck

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Answer by S Nicholson
I met my Bichon Frise when he was 12 years old. Because of horrifying abuse and neglect, he had very little interest in food.

He now happily eats Royal Canin Gastrointestinal Low Fat kibble. This was the fifth type of food the vet recommended, the first type that agreed with his digestive system, and the first kind he would predictably eat.

I discovered, if I entice him by sprinkling a small amount of the canned version of this food on top of his kibble, he eats promptly and therefore has regularly timed bowel movements … EVERY day!

He had no interest in dog treats either but now enjoys carrot sticks (prefers organic), apple pieces (Gala only), and cooked sweet potato, green beans, and broccoli.

I collected this information from many Bichon parents. It seems Bichons are specific food eaters… right down to the type of apple. They aren’t rude or obnoxious about it. They just prefer, for example, not to eat an apple if it isn’t a Gala apple!

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Answer by darksong17
All of the foods you have tried are low-quality dog foods. They can eat the same foods any other dog can just choose a high-quality one.

Not all pet food is made equally. A lot of it is full of corn, by-products, dyes, unhealthy preservatives, filler grains, and all sorts of nasty stuff. A lot of pet food companies are perfectly happy to dump cheap leftovers in. Will it kill your dog? No, it has to be nutritionally complete and safe to even be marketed. Is it healthy? Not by a long shot.

Corn is a low-quality ingredient you never want to see in your pet food. Corn and low-quality grains are two of the biggest culprits when it comes to food allergies in our pets.

Thankfully, there are some excellent dog foods being made these days that include organic, human-grade ingredients rather than trash not fit for human consumption.

Examples of low-quality foods to avoid: Anything you can find in a grocery store will be low-end, Purina, Iams, Eukanuba, Science Diet, Royal Canin, Pedigree, Kibbles n' Bits, Beneful, Ol'Roy.

Examples of high-quality foods to look for: Innova, Wellness, Solid Gold, Canidae All Life Stages, Fromm Four Star, Merrick, GO Natural, Nature's Variety Prairie, Nature's Logic, Artemis Fresh Mix.

Although high-quality foods are more expensive, you're getting what you're paying for. Less filler material means more concentrated nutrients... this means you typically need to feed far less of the high-quality food than you would of the low-quality one. Which also means less poop!

A great option is to go with an entirely grainless diet. Many of the high-quality foods now put out grainless formulas. Some good grainless diets include Innova EVO, Wellness CORE, Blue Wilderness, Nature's Variety Instinct, Orijen, Fromm Surf & Turf, Now! and Solid Gold Barking At The Moon, Taste of the Wild.

Some pretty decent foods can even be found in common pet stores. Petsmart carries Blue Buffalo products (such as the excellent grain-free diet Blue Wilderness). Petco carries Wellness, Solid Gold, Natural Balance, Eagle Pack Holistic, Blue Buffalo, Castor & Pollux Organix, Pinnacle, and Halo. If you can't find food, most of the high-quality food brands have websites with store locators on them.

Remember that you should switch your Bichon Frise to another food gradually, especially when switching to a higher quality one, so as not to upset tummies.

Answer by B Jackson
Bichon Frise puppies are usually fed the same food as other dog breeds. However, some owners recommend special diets for Bichon Frises and some veterinarians offer advice on what foods to feed them. If you want to know what food is best to feed your Bichon Frise puppy, ask your vet's advice.
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