Beau's Journey: How a Fussy Moodle Found His Perfect Meal with Frontier Pets

I wanted to share this story with you because it's so extraordinary.

We do get stories all the time... all the time... about fussy dogs that have completely turned around when they're fed Frontier Pets food.

We've also received stories about dogs' health improving dramatically.

But this one is special. Because poor Beau has been through the wars. And finally, finally, he's a happy, healthy pup.

Mum Kelli felt that she had to share the story with me—and now I simply have to share it with you.

These are Kelli's words—not mine...

My name is Kelli, and I have a 9-month-old Moodle (Maltese x Toy Poodle) named Beau. We are both now converts to Frontier Pets food after a challenging start for Beau, and I just wanted to share this story with you, as the Frontier diet has made such a positive difference to him. It’s a bit of a story, but it ends well, so please bear with me!

Beau is definitely more Maltese than Poodle, and despite being firm with him, he is a fussy eater—though as it turns out, he has had good reason to be. He has also never been a food-motivated puppy, but will do anything for pats, cuddles, and love!

I got him at 8 weeks old and transitioned him off the Hills dog food diet he was on from the breeder, as even then he wasn't really eating it—no matter how many tips and tricks I tried to make it more 'appetising.' He was a whole 1 kg at this point!

The Struggles Begin

So began a journey through many expensive puppy food brands. All grain-free, all premium brands. Dry, tinned, refrigerated, frozen, homemade bland diet—you name it, we tried it. But he wasn’t really interested in any of them and would skip meals, sometimes for days. Obviously, this worried me!

Then, at 5 months old, Beau had an 'ingestion of a foreign body' incident (he swallowed a strip of plastic that blew into the backyard). This led to a string of emergency vet visits, rehydration's due to constant vomiting, anaesthetics, and endoscopes. He was about 3.5 kg at this point (at 6 months old!).

He was diagnosed with gastritis and suffered endless vomiting and gagging. This affected his stomach, gut, energy levels, and growth. At one point, he had to come home from the vets with an IV to keep him hydrated and receive anti-nausea drugs via his veins.

He had horrendous breath and developed severe red tear staining on his face. Though he was always a beautiful-natured, happy boy, he wasn’t all he could be, and I was constantly worried about him eating enough. His weight was stalled. He wasn’t bony thin, but he wasn’t thriving nutritionally either.

Discovering Frontier Pets: A Game Changer

The puppy-centred Facebook group I’m part of suggested trying Frontier. All their puppies and dogs loved it. At this point, I figured, ‘why not?’, as I was willing to try almost anything.

I sent off for the trial packs and some Paddy Whack two weeks ago and am happy to say it has been a triumph from nearly day one!

He has devoured the chicken flavour, is almost through the beef flavour, and will start the pork ones soon. (He also enjoys the Paddy Whack, but nearly as an afterthought.) He will sit at his food bowl waiting—something that has never happened before—in the morning and at night. His breath doesn’t smell anymore, and his tear stains have nearly gone.

He is 5.2 kg at 9 months and hasn’t vomited in weeks. He is happy, has energy, and his bowel habits have sorted themselves out (which makes me happy as well).

A Happy Ending for Beau!

I will definitely be continuing this diet and am so happy with it that I’m donating my cupboard full of previously tried tinned and dry foods to the local shelter for pets in need. The fact that Frontier is local, ethical, grain-free, and has real meat in it—rather than some vague approximation of it (the mystery ‘chicken meal’ of other brands)—is only a plus!

Thank You, Kelli and Beau!

Thank you, Kelli, for sharing this amazing story and for your fabulous pics of Beau. It makes me smile—so much—I can’t tell you.

Di.