Cheap Wagg at ASda

greenval

Hi
Just bought 15kg of Wagg beef and vegetable in asda for £7 instead of £9.98.bargain! and Max loves it!

cubegame

It's cheap because it's crap. No-one should feed a dog this.

greenval

Perhaps you would like to justify your comment with some scientific analysis. Max is 12, healthy, lively,beautiful coat(something other people comment on) and well cared for and actually eats this more enthusiastically than other foods I've tried. She sees the vet annually for boosters/check ups and they have always said how good she is for her age.

Rev

greenval wrote: »

Perhaps you would like to justify your comment with some scientific analysis. Max is 12, healthy, lively,beautiful coat(something other people comment on) and well cared for and actually eats this more enthusiastically than other foods I've tried. She sees the vet annually for boosters/check ups and they have always said how good she is for her age.

Here's an independent review of wagg.

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/dog_food_reviews/showproduct.php?product=1629&cat=all

It's full of fillers, with just enough meat to make the fillers taste meaty. Any dog food where the first names ingredient isn't either meat, or meat meal (not animal derivatives) should be avoided at all costs.

Dogs need meat, they get their energy from meat, sure they can get it from maze, rice etc but their digestive system can't handle that properly, so it'll convert those types of carbs into sugar, which basically means a spike in blood sugar shortly after every meal. Wagg, pedigree, bakers (the worst of the worst) are the dog equivalent of macdonalds.

I was exactly the same as yourself, thought my dogs were really healthy, until I started looking into pet nutrition and saw the crap I was feeding them. Changed them to a good food and was astonished by the differance, I've said this before but I'll say it again. There's a big difference between surviving a thriving, a difference you wont know until you've seen your pets do both.

You have no reason to believe me, but if you think wagg is a great food, find a pet nutritionist and ask them what they think of it. And by that I don't mean a vet, the vet recommend whatever food they're getting a kick back for selling.

Rev

cubegame wrote: »

It's cheap because it's crap. No-one should feed a dog this.

Seconded, it's cheap because there's no actual food for the dog in it.

lisawood78

Sorry op, I wouldn't feed my girls this stuff ever, i'd go without myself to give them better food than this. Even on the best quality dry food my 2 are hyper, but we didn't realise it was the food til we took them off it and onto raw, the difference was astonishing!

BUT, if you do feed it and are happy to feed it then it's a better price than normal, and good on op for passing on something they thought helpful.

Soubrette

I vote for Wagg - my dog has a very sensitive stomach - he has been on various dog foods. The very best was fish4dogs at about £40.00 a big bag and the second best was Wagg at about £10.00 a bag. Third best was Burns. He's also been on the organic dog food he came with (rescue dog), pets at home premium dry food and james wellbeloved as well.

Wagg is a very close second to fish4dogs for his tummy and much cheaper.

He is an old boy though so maybe doesn't need a higher energy food?

Sou

greenval

Max used to have wet food and a dry mixer. As she got older her stomach won't tolerate that.I don't buy it 'because it.s cheap' but because it suits her stomach, she eats it enthusiastically and is thriving on it.
My post was not intended to suggest that anyone else should be converted to it but if you do buy it, then the current price in Asda is a good one.

foreign_correspondent

I am not at all certain that we really know what a domestic dog's optimal diet is... they have evolved over thousands of generations with humans, living on what we leave over - as humans have struggled to gain enough food for adequate nutrition for most of that time, I am sure the dogs were not fed on prime meat, but on vegetables, cereals, bones and gristle.

There is very little unbiased research, as most of it is funded by the pet food industry, however, it is worth noting that dogs (unlike cats) are not obligate carnivores - they can digest and utilise non-animal protein - and some vegetarian dogs are very long lived - the guinness world record holder for longevity at one point was a vegetarian dog. And racing greyhounds, the performance athletes of the canine world are routinely fed on a cereal based diet.

My last little dog made it to 16-17 on Wagg, I switched my current dog Badger to a more expensive food a while ago... she didn't thrive on it (smellier poos, dull coat, bad breath) so has gone back onto Wagg - I have a trial bag of Hills, so I will try her on that, but I think long term I am happy with how she does on Wagg. My mum's lurcher is on it, as almost everything else upsets her stomach, and she is in fine fettle, and very athletic (she has the working dog version which is higher in protein, to keep enough weight on her) - the vet is very happy with her condition.

In a time when many people are giving up their dogs because they cannot afford the £40 - £60 a bag food that the marketing men have persuaded us is essential, I think a bit of perspective is needed. Many people on here are having to live on economy foods, and it seems sensible to cut your cloth accordingly. Almost all dogs (unless they have certain medical needs or allergies) will do fine on a basic food like this.

looby75

FWIW our old Heinz dog (jack rustle size but with a much bigger head) lived to be 21 and was only ever fed on Wagg. He was never ill in his entire life and only visited the vets when he was a puppy for his injections (yearly boosters weren't really pushed by the vet back then) IMO dogs are just like people diet wise, some people can only stomach the best of foods and others can manage very happily on basic stuff. As long as your dog is healthy and happy does it really matter that the food is "cheap"?

Rev

looby75 wrote: »

FWIW our old Heinz dog (jack rustle size but with a much bigger head) lived to be 21 and was only ever fed on Wagg. He was never ill in his entire life and only visited the vets when he was a puppy for his injections (yearly boosters weren't really pushed by the vet back then) IMO dogs are just like people diet wise, some people can only stomach the best of foods and others can manage very happily on basic stuff. As long as your dog is healthy and happy does it really matter that the food is "cheap"?

It doesn't matter about the price of the food, it's about quality.

I fed skinners duck and rice (dogs are on raw now), it's £18 per sack, not hugely expensive, only a few £ more than wagg usually is. But it's hypo-allergenic and has a half decent meat content. Not the most expensive of foods, not the most amazing quality, but my dogs did very well on it and I topped up the low-ish meat content with prize choice mince, which is £3 for 2kg, I tried them on a few foods before I settled on this combo, and went for it because it seemed to suit them best.

I'm not saying food has to be expensive to be good, but IMO buying wagg is a total waste of cash, it's a bag of fillers, you'd be better off buying a giant bag of rice/pasta and cooking something yourself for the dog.