Yes, what you say makes sense... free feeding does work for some people... unfortunately, I run a small crateless boarding facility from home as well. It would never work here because I have different dogs on different foods here all the time. Thanks for all the advice though. I will definitely take her off the calcium supplement. So I guess I'll stick w/ the Liquid Health 5000 (does that have the ester-C in it?) I'm going to stick to the probiotics though... I'm a firm believer in that stuff!!! It helped me get my last Neo back to health... Plus, it really seems to help w/ the gas issue ) Real dogs come w/ saddles