Brian Couse Webboard User Reg: 04-23-2012
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I have a 10 lb Maltese mix who has been eating Innova. Not any more. I'm tired of the recalls. I'm starting her on a grain free kibble called Tuscan Natural. All the reviews look good. I was wondering if anyone has used this product?
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Correct. That's the one.
Also, it lists 300 iu of Vitamin E. Do you think that's a natural E as we've discussed in other posts and would I still have to add E with salmon oil or would the amount in the food be enough? Of course this is based on one cup of food.
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It would depend on how much food the dog eats.
It has 300 IU of E per kilo (2.2 pounds). So about 8.5 IU of E per ounce of food, or about 137 IU per pound of food.
Since kibbles vary a lot in how many measuring cups make a pound, you'd probably have to find on the bag something like "one cup = ..... ounces" or else weigh a half-cup or a cup of food on a postage scale with a tare for the measuring cup. (A plastic one would be a much smaller tare, of course.) This will give you an idea of how many IUs in a serving of such-and-such ounces or cups.
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This is on the bag....
3,700 Kcal/kg 436 kcal/cup
1 cup=4.2 oz. (118 g)
So then a one-cup measure contains about 36 IUs of E (4.2 ounces times 8.5 IU of E per ounce of food).
How much is the recommended daily amount of the food for a ten-pound dog?
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Remember, use their breakdown of how many ounces of food there are in a one-cup measure. Pounds to cups and cups to ounces aren't universal, because pounds are weight and cups are volume. There has to be a step in between where you ascertain how many weight units of the thing you are measuring there are in a volume measure like a cup. So don't go by the ounce measure on the size of a Pyrex measuring cup.)
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I don't measure it, but I would say she gets about a cup a day. Maybe a little less.
Well, a full cup of this food* would contain 36 IU of E. Mary Strauss, someone I admire very much, suggests just 2 IUs of E per pound of dog (when giving oil supplements, like fish oil). So for her recommendation, this food would supply enough.
I personally give a bit more. A dog this small would probably get 50 IU from me, and a gram of fish oil (that is, I would work up to a gram of fish oil). A gram, of course, is 1000 mg, and it also happens to be the amount in many fish oil gelcaps (but check; some are 1200 or even 1400).
If it's liquid fish oil, a gram is about a scant (not filled) quarter-teaspoon measuring spoon. (A measuring teaspoon is about four and three-quarters grams.)
* That's this particular food ..... we don't want readers to extrapolate this to other kibbles.
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