IAMs senior dog food

billy858

Is there a particular reason it has to be on the Senior food. Mine just has Iams Adult and is absolutely fine. Or is this something I should change?

Sequeena

I would definitely change the food you're giving him. Iams is pretty bad, it's mostly full of cheap fillers yet they charge ridiculous prices!

I have a 13 year old dog who is very fussy and in her old age she has developed a taste for some 'crap foods' ie pedigree, bakers etc. She still loves Nature Diet though which is an extremely good quality wet food. You can pick it up in P@H for around 82p a pack but Berriewoods do them for much cheaper.

If your dog has a dodgy tummy I would recommend chappie. It's not great but it's recommended for dogs with sensitive stomachs and it comes in wet or dry

Fire_Fox

I don't understand why people keep rolling out Burns as a better food, granted the ethical stance is seriously impressive but they add just as many cheap fillers as IAMS (Proctor and Gamble, so an ethiscore of 0!).

IAMS Senior & Mature
Chicken (>24%), maize, wheat, sorghum, barley, poultry meal, animal fat, dried beet pulp, chicken digest, fish meal, dried whole egg, brewer's dried yeast, potassium chloride, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, fish oil, DL-methionine, glucosamine hydrochloride.

Burns Chicken & Brown Rice
Brown Rice (min 63%), Chicken (min 20%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed, Vitamins and Minerals

Burns Chicken & Maize
Maize (min 70%), Chicken meal (min 16%), Peas, Chicken Oil, Seaweed, Minerals & Vitamins

foreign_correspondent

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep rolling out Burns as a better food, granted the ethical stance is seriously impressive but they add just as many cheap fillers as IAMS (Proctor and Gamble, so an ethiscore of 0!).

IAMS Senior & Mature
Chicken (>24%), maize, wheat, sorghum, barley, poultry meal, animal fat, dried beet pulp, chicken digest, fish meal, dried whole egg, brewer's dried yeast, potassium chloride, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, fish oil, DL-methionine, glucosamine hydrochloride.

Burns Chicken & Brown Rice
Brown Rice (min 63%), Chicken (min 20%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed, Vitamins and Minerals

Burns Chicken & Maize
Maize (min 70%), Chicken meal (min 16%), Peas, Chicken Oil, Seaweed, Minerals & Vitamins

I agree - but when you consider that you can get a cheapo food (£11 for a 15kg sack from CSJ) with a minimum of 20% chicken, these foods all seem expensive for the ingredients... however, I can appreciate you are paying a premium for the ethical considerations with Burns - I can't understand on what grounds IAMS could be seen to be worth it's money though.

http://www.csjk9.com/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=7&idcategory=4

gettingready

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I don't understand why people keep rolling out Burns as a better food, granted the ethical stance is seriously impressive but they add just as many cheap fillers as IAMS (Proctor and Gamble, so an ethiscore of 0!).

IAMS Senior & Mature
Chicken (>24%), maize, wheat, sorghum, barley, poultry meal, animal fat, dried beet pulp, chicken digest, fish meal, dried whole egg, brewer's dried yeast, potassium chloride, salt, sodium hexametaphosphate, fish oil, DL-methionine, glucosamine hydrochloride.

Burns Chicken & Brown Rice
Brown Rice (min 63%), Chicken (min 20%), Oats, Peas, Chicken Oil, Sunflower Oil, Seaweed, Vitamins and Minerals

Burns Chicken & Maize
Maize (min 70%), Chicken meal (min 16%), Peas, Chicken Oil, Seaweed, Minerals & Vitamins

So you do not feel Burns is a good choice?

Lots of "good food" companies do not offer moist food options, Zara will not eat dry food alone so I often find myself stuck as I have to mix her wet and dry food...



Would love to feed her Orijen (ordered some small bags of each of their food) but I doubt she will have it alone, dry only.

I had her on Natures maenu and the Natures choice mixed with dry for a while - her coat went from shiney (while on Burns) to very dull and her poos were different. Switched back to Burns last week.

Will see when it arrives though.... maybe a miracle will happen?

Fire_Fox

I am impressed by Burns ethics, but that is a different discussion as to whether I think it's not full of cheap fillers - 70% maize and 16% chicken? Dogs' anatomy is closer to omnivorous than our obligate carnivore cats, so I don't have a problem with some rice/ wheat/ maize in the mix. I don't think you need to feed the same brand of wet and dry food, just the same as you don't need to use matching shampoo and conditioner, that's marketing not science.

Be_Happy

Glad I found this thread about Iams and older dogs and wonder if anyone can help with my query.

We have fed our dog - 14 year old golden labrador, retired guide dog - Iams since we got her from the Guide Dog Association 5 years ago, as we were told she had always eaten that.

She is healthy, lives for food and has always gobbled down the food, until now. For the last month she has eaten half of it quickly, then thrown lumps of food out of her dish and eventually seems to get tired of chasing it round the bowl and gives up. She doesn't like too much water mixed in with the food. It is not a general loss of appetite as she still eats almost everything else and vet has found no obvious health problem or tooth trouble.

Wet dog food doesn't agree with her although she would happily eat it, so I have to find another (easily available) senior dry dog food, but need to find one with larger pieces of food which she may find easier to pick up. She has lost several of her teeth, but not recently. Can anyone recommend one I can try?

I have seen on packs that Iams has 'improved' its recipe, so even wondered if this was the problem?

I notice in previous posts that people have compared prices, but on looking around, you have to compare the price and the recommended daily feeding guide. In the cheaper dog foods you have to feed double the amount of Iams.