Nutricious Wet Dog Food

Frugalista

niklam wrote: »

I have a feeling that in her previous home she was al leftovers girl. Unfortunately for her - we do leftovers here

Leftovers/scraps are OK - if they are fed in moderation. Nutritionally, scraps do provide calories to the dog in addition to a few vitamins and minerals. Some scraps, however, should be avoided - such as rich, fatty foods, and any kind of chop or cooked poultry bones. Cooked poultry and chop bones can splinter and lodge in the intestinal tract - with dangerous results.

Fatty foods like bacon grease, etc, can cause diarrhoea and trigger other more serious digestive upsets. A large percentage of dogs are also allergic to pork and pork products.

For balanced nutrition, it is best if table scraps comprise less than 10% of your dogs’ total daily food intake. Treats from the table should never be offered to the point that your dog avoids his regular food.

I agree with FC about the tinned food - on the rare occasions mine get it, you could cut through the air with a knife when I come downstairs in the morning. With 9 of them farting away all night in the lounge ..... I'm sure you can imagine :eek::eek::eek:

WolfSong2000

Also, be careful about switching food over too suddenly - this can cause digestive problems. I recommend naturediet as a wet food, but it is worth incorporating dry food as helps keep teeth and digestion healthy...if she's picky about it, maybe start off by watering it down, then gradually reduce the amount of water, etc, and try adding little interesting bits for some variety, e.g. raw veggies such as carrots and other stuff like cottage cheese. I know I'd be bored stiff if I was fed exactly the same food every day, wet or dry, and if she'd been put on chappie dry food day in, day out, she may just be fed up of it...it's like expecting us to live off army rations or something

elliebellie

we moved to using chappie about 3 years ago after pooch had a perforated ulcer, and it's the best food we've ever used, he loves it!!

only time we get him farting like a trooper is when he's managed to get into the bin and helps himself:p.

There are 2 flavours of chappie, one is original, the other is chicken. he's not fussed, but i find the smell of the chicken slightly less pungent than the original - never open a tin of original with a hangover_pale_

good luck!

lynzpower

I have never looked back since I changed from Shops own/ cesar types to Nature diet.

It works out a lot cheaper too, as the Nature diet is much more solid and not got any nasty fillers. Others weve had are wainwrightts ( she likes these too) Wellbeloved ( not keen) and Natures Menu ( more expensive, she didnt really seem particularly keen)

Its about 75p a tray in PAH and you can get them in bulk online.

Its not the cheapest but theres also no waste, we never throw this away , it doesnt get left.

Find her manner a lot better on this food. She was much more sulky and less up for playing when we used supermarket food the other week - i was amazed & horrified at the difference.

If I cant get to PAH we go for butchers tripe in tins, its the only tinned food she wont leave.

~Chameleon~

robert_harper_2000 wrote: »

To get her use to eating try something neutral and safe like the Applaws Chicken breast, it will be in the cat section but the ingredients are just Chicken breast so it won't do any harm and might just get her started.

Are you related to a certain Spudette by any chance? :think: :idea:

bethie

we keep dry food out all the time, and then at night she gets some wet food on top.

she gets a rotating wet food selection of james wellbeloved, naturediet, or burns food. with the nature diet and burns, we split the containers over two days, as each is about 400g, and the jwb is only 150g.

she sometimes also gets pilchards in tomato sauce, or tuna fish in spring water.


there is also the BARF diet, which i understand can sometimes be MSE.

viktory

niklam wrote: »

Please excuse my spelling. Well our gorgeous dog has been with us a week now, and despite us buying her the finest complete dry food, she is refusing it. If we mix with a wet food then she will basically eat the wet food and spit out any bits of dry food that she happened to get into her mouth by mistake.:rolleyes:

So my question is, what brands of wet food are not overly expensive but are as nutricious as a dry complete food? DH says he used to feed his dogs a food that came shaped as a sausage. I think they fed them Chappie in the dogs home she was rescued from. Now bearing in mind she is weighing in at 26kg atm (and not overweight at all) and she can put the food away (ikkle piglet )

Any MSE suggestions ?

Many Thanks

Niki

We feed our dog on Naturediet - it isn't too expensive, the dog loves it and it is packed full of goodness.

izzydogsam

I feed my GSD Naturediet and no stinky farts have emanated from him for a long time! :T Agree with what other users have said about it. My dog loves it, eats it all up and is happy, healthy, and sorry if anyone's eating breakfast :eek: has solid stools! We had a lot of problems with his sensitive tum when we rescued him and tried a few foods over a long period of time til we settled on this one, as it improved his behaviour, he liked it, and I like the fact it's not full of crap!

It's not a 'cheap' food, but you don't need to feed loads of it, as it's good quality. I don't feed as much as it recommends on the pack - I feed by watching my dog's weight - if he's getting a bit chunky we cut down on treats and reduce his food slightly, if he's looking a bit slim, we up it a little bit. He's at least 10 years old now (we've had him 8 and a half years) and virtually everyone who meets him thinks he's younger than he is - he is brilliant for his age and the vet always comments on how well he looks and is doing. Not sure they approve of Naturediet though, cos they don't sell it :rotfl::rotfl:!

niklam

Thanks for your suggestions. Will be looking at naturediet next week. I've no intention of swapping her over immediately onto a new food - cos she does have a bit of a sensitive tummy. Thinking back to what she has eaten over the last 2 weeks I have to say the butchers tripe mix didnt cause the smells - its the other butchers varieties that do - poor thing! So will probably keep that as a back up.

thanks again for your help

Niki

robert_harper_2000

Naturediet is great stuff, loadz of meat all real meat! I thought it was pretty cheap hasn't gone up in ages, and if you try and buy any Almo dog cans about £1.70 compared to Naturediets pouch 77p.