How much does it cost to feed your dog?

BonandDom

2 x £8.99 Dr Johns blue a month, fed ad lib to a rotty, border collie and a JRT.

Which works outs at approx 20p a day per dog - probably 30 for the rotty, 20 for the collie and 10 for the JRT.

Subsidised by titbits from DH:D

Fire_Fox

peachespeaches wrote: »

Anyone else recommend this? My puppy was started on PAH own brand dried puppy food by his previous home so I carried on, but I was thinking of getting him a better quality brand, until I read somewhere that its made by one of the bigger petfood companies. I think it was an older thread on this forum.

At least for cat food, the Pets at Home own brands are as good quality as many of the named brands. Look at the ingredients and the meat content, post up the brands and variants you are considering if you aren't sure.

peachespeaches

Pets at Home puppy food:

Protein 28%, oils and fats 12%, fibre 2.5% ash 7.5% calcium 1.2% Photsphorus 0.95% vit a 15,000iu/kg vit D3 1000iu/kg vit E 75mg/kg copper 18mg/kg

Ingredients
Cereals , meat and animal derivatives (chicken min 10%) veg protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, various sugars, vegetables (min 4% in the green kibble), yeast, With colourants, Antioxidants and preservatives:EC Additives.

Will now find something to compare it with. Any comments on above?

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shiningdove

For our 15kg dog, it costs about £8 a month on jameswellbeloved dry dog food.

He has his fish a week and a couple of treats here and there.
Hes far more into toys than treats though.

Fire_Fox

Peaches: I would be looking for a puppy food where the first ingredient is meat not cereals. Just looked on the Pets at Home website and there are four varieties of own brand puppy food in the silver packaging (Premium range) - all have meat as the first ingredient at around 24% which isn't what you have posted?

peachespeaches

Fire_Fox wrote: »

Peaches: I would be looking for a puppy food where the first ingredient is meat not cereals. Just looked on the Pets at Home website and there are four varieties of own brand puppy food in the silver packaging (Premium range) - all have meat as the first ingredient at around 24% which isn't what you have posted?

Just typed it from the label. It isnt the silver pack, just brought it in from kitchen. It is metallic blue at the top with a beagle pup on grass on the front. It has the pets at home logo on the top and then says "With Moist Meaty Chunks", Puppy, with Chicken and country vegetables a complete and balanced dog food, vitamin enriched V+. It was given me by the puppies previous family. I cant find it on the website, but its good while october 2010 so its not out of date or anything.

Some packaging has been changed somewhere along the line, which makes me wonder if mine is the old or the new!

Anyone else got this?

supersaver66

peachespeaches wrote: »

Anyone else recommend this? My puppy was started on PAH own brand dried puppy food by his previous home so I carried on, but I was thinking of getting him a better quality brand, until I read somewhere that its made by one of the bigger petfood companies. I think it was an older thread on this forum.

Well I used to feed her Royal Canin when she was a pup, then went onto JWB ... she would always be hungry (or a ganet!) so was going through alot of it, so decided to buy a cheaper option and shes done really well on it. I also give her a few handfuls of it as treats too.

sarabe

peachespeaches wrote: »

Pets at Home puppy food:

Protein 28%, oils and fats 12%, fibre 2.5% ash 7.5% calcium 1.2% Photsphorus 0.95% vit a 15,000iu/kg vit D3 1000iu/kg vit E 75mg/kg copper 18mg/kg

Ingredients
Cereals , meat and animal derivatives (chicken min 10%) veg protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, various sugars, vegetables (min 4% in the green kibble), yeast, With colourants, Antioxidants and preservatives:EC Additives.

Will now find something to compare it with. Any comments on above?

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If I was going to feed a commercial dog food to my dogs then I would avoid anything that contained derivatives as you do not know what the ingredients are and they can change from one bag to the next depending on what was available (or destined for the tip) at the time.

foreign_correspondent

Pets at Home puppy food:

Protein 28%, oils and fats 12%, fibre 2.5% ash 7.5% calcium 1.2% Photsphorus 0.95% vit a 15,000iu/kg vit D3 1000iu/kg vit E 75mg/kg copper 18mg/kg

Ingredients
Cereals , meat and animal derivatives (chicken min 10%) veg protein extracts, derivatives of vegetable origin, oils and fats, minerals, various sugars, vegetables (min 4% in the green kibble), yeast, With colourants, Antioxidants and preservatives:EC Additives.

Will now find something to compare it with. Any comments on above?

Firstly- I wonder why it has colourants? Not necessary for the pup at all and many people believe they can affect behaviour!

so, comparing it with ...

Natural Little Champ puppy food (CSJ)

Protein26%, Oil11%, Fibre2.5% Ash8% Vitamin A15,000iu/kg, Vitamin D31,500iu/kg, Vitamin E90iu/kg, Copper (as Copper Sulphate)10mg/kg

Ingredients:
Beef and Lamb Meal, Wheat, Chicken Meat Meal, Maize, Bread, Chicken Fat, Chicken Liver, Unmolassed Beet Pulp, Full Fat Linseed, Green Leaf Vegetable, Potassium Chloride, EC permitted natural anti-oxidants, Mixed Tocopherols, Vitamin C and Rosemary Extract.

The Little Champ looks like it has far more meat in it, and the meat is named, rather than the generic 'meat and animal derivatives' in PAH brand - and that is their 'basic' pup food, priced at just £12.80 per 15kg.

They also do a more expensive puppy food, which is described as 'super premium' and hypoallergenic; CP21, at £33.40 per 15kg:

Protein27%, Oil16%, Fibre2.5%, Ash7.5%, Omega 6:3 ratio8.7:1,Vitamin A15,000iu/kg, Vitamin D31,500iu/kg, Vitamin E100iu/kg, Calcium1.85%, Phosphorous1.35%, Zinc155mg/kgCopper (as Copper Sulphate)15mg/kg Energy15.72 MJ/kg

ingredients:
Lamb Meat Meal, Corn, Whole White Rice, Beet Pulp, Fishmeal, Whole Egg, Whole Linseed, Chicken Oil, Herbs (marshmallow, peppermint, fenugreek, parsley, rosemary), Minerals, Vitamins, Chicory Extract, Yucca Extract, Chondroitin, Glucosamine Sulphate & MSM.

...however, the PAH brand is more expensive than either of these - the equivalent amount (15kg) of PAH puppy food would cost £43.50! (based on £28.99 for a - 10kg bag.) - personally, I would far rather feed the Natural little champ, with more meat and no colourants, and save £30 a bag in the process!

peachespeaches

Thanks for that. I didnt want to continue with the Pets at Home puppy food anyway, it just came with the puppy when we bought him. I got some Pero puppy food yesterday and he much prefers that. I took advantage of their offer of 2.5 kg bag plus bag of treats for £5 delivered. I was mixing it in with the PAH stuff but he just picked out the Pero, which obviously tastes better. However, today his poos have been a little bit sloppier and almost greeny brown, but they are still mostly formed. Im guessing this is just the change over from one food to another, but also its possible that its just because he is eating more now he has found a more palatable food.