What do you feed your dog?

cjmumto2

YOu are right about the high protein content, it makes dogs hyper. A good example was a lady contacted me saying her 2 male unneutered spaniels were attacking each other nearly to death. She was feeding Pedigree. I suggested obvioulsy to get the one male neutered but in the mean time to change to a lower protein food, ie Burns, she called me 2 weeks later to say that since the change of food the dogs hadnt had another fight.

Pont

My lab has Skinners maintenance (less protein, less hyper) and seems to be doing well on it.

concerned43

My labs have 3 cans of Pal dog food each!! plus all the food from our plates/bins and if they can find anything on their walk - they'll eat it. Honestly they are eating me out of house and home and are constantly hungry all the time. They are not overweight so don't know how they are staying so slim!

kazschow

cjmumto2 wrote: »

YOu are right about the high protein content, it makes dogs hyper. A good example was a lady contacted me saying her 2 male unneutered spaniels were attacking each other nearly to death. She was feeding Pedigree. I suggested obvioulsy to get the one male neutered but in the mean time to change to a lower protein food, ie Burns, she called me 2 weeks later to say that since the change of food the dogs hadnt had another fight.

I suspect you will find the two spaniels were hyper on pedigree because of all the additives and preservatives, Pedigree like Bakers are filled with them, it's akin to feeding your children a diet of smarties alone. Yes some dogs will do fine on both foods, but more will react badly.

In all seriousness, dogs thrive on a raw diet, and you can't get a higher protien count than that. Dogs guts are designed to digest protien much better than ours, they're more carnivore than ominvore. It's a relatively short time in our relationship with dogs we've fed a commercial dry diet, and people being people, we have anthropmorphised it into an almost meat and carb diet that has a break down similar to our own. Look at the absolute premium foods, like origen etc, the protien content is very high and very high quality, which leads to needing to feed less and most dogs thriving on it.

I sell dog food, and in all honesty, unless your dog has an issue with a particular protien, a health related issue that doet impacts on etc, I would be more worried about the carbohydrate source of the food being put down.

This is a useful website for anyone wanting more information on analysis of the food you're putting down to your pet.

https://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/

Mupette

pup hates dried food, even mixing it with low salt gravy, resorted to dog gravy a few weeks pack in the hope he would eat it... nope

he's a pedigree chum boy with small bite mixer.

And when the cat refuses his dinner dog will have cat food too

kjmtidea

My 9 month old springer spaniel has wainrights and he seems to be doing very well on it. His previous owners had him on winalot, asda etc and he was more hyperactive than my kids. He has calmed down a lot now!

Primmer

My 1 year old working cocker is on Royal Canin Medium Junior and he has a lovely coat and seems so much better than he was on Hills Science Plan - that cat loves it too so he has to eat it all in one go or the cat is after it!

dizziblonde

James Wellbeloved here - just starting to get the difference showing through on his coat now and he's getting a lovely shine on it (under the mud). Fed the mog on the catfood JWB for years and she's got about as good a coat as it's possible to get on a moggy - mind you she spends hours grooming it every day.

Sublime_2

James wellbeloved, or Wagg, plus some chopped chicken, mince or cesar tray on top (not mixed in)

Kinski

Wagg is one of the worst foods on the market, it's full of carbohydrates which turns into sugar inside the dog and that's what makes them hyper. As kazschow dogs fed on barf are fed mostly protein and they thrive on it, you can't get a better diet for a dog. One of my dogs is fed Orijen and hyper is the last thing you could call him :rotfl:, orijen has a white paper that's quite a good read http://www.orijenpetfoods.co.uk/acatalog/ORIJEN_White_Paper(09).pdf, my other dog has kidney failure and at the moment is fed a low protein diet but I'm reading a load on the internet that says it doesn't make a difference.