What do you feed your dog apart from tinned food?

amyjay_2

Just out of interest, what do you feed your dog?

Our dog is a staffie crossed with a dalmation and we feed her one tin of meat per day. She also has a bag of biscuits which she helps herself to throughout the day. (I know this is bad but if we put them in a dish she will eat the lot and only takes a few this way)

I've started giving her some pigs heart every now and again but unsure what else to give her to make her food more interesting.

Any help would be great... Thanks

withabix

I would do away with tinned meat and mixer and feed IAMS. It does work out cheaper because you feed a lot less, because it isn't full of nothing, like tinned 'meat' and things like Bakers are.

You will have less poo to clear up and it will be firmer!

Rev

withabix wrote: »

I would do away with tinned meat and mixer and feed IAMS. It does work out cheaper because you feed a lot less, because it isn't full of nothing, like tinned 'meat' and things like Bakers are.

You will have less poo to clear up and it will be firmer!

Seriously. For the price IAMS is shockingly bad quality. And that's ignoring the moral implications of feeding iams, with their testing on animals.

I feed pets at homes own brand wainwrights, it's 65% meat. And costs £8 for 12 trays. To feed a dry food with such a high meat content you'd be looking at £50+ pet bag. I feed two staffy dogs this for about £30 oer month. A little more now the price has gone up a little.

Not all dog meat is low in actal meat content. And even of you are a fan of dry food and prefer to feed that you can get MUCH better than IAMS for the price. You can get fish4dogs for about £35, you feed less than IAMS and it's 55% fish.

I add Simpsons lamb and potato which is grain and cereal free.

Looking at IAMS ingredients.

Chicken (>24%), Maize, Wheat, Animal Fat, Poultry Meal, Sorghum, Barley, Dried Beet Pulp, Chicken Digest, Fish Meal, Dried Whole Egg, Brewer's Dried Yeast, Potassium Chloride, Sodium Chloride, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Dl-Methionine

4 fillers in the same food. To me, that's not good value.

If your dog does well on it, that's fantastic, but it is a terrible value food.

rising_from_the_ashes

Hi Amyjay, my dog doesn't get tinned food at all - it upsets his tum (and I hate to think what's in some of them)!

I agree with Withabix - dry food is much more economical. Mr B is wheat intolerant so is on a "special" dry food - which is duck & rice (can also get chicken & rice and salmon & rice).

I get it from my local pet shop and it's a working dog food (no VAT!) - £23 for a 15kg bag which does him 7 weeks so works out at less than £3.50/week. There's no "bad" stuff in it and suits him perfectly. http://www.skinnerspetfoods.co.uk/products/field---trial-products/duck---rice/

He gets cabbage mixed with his meal (I batch cook and freeze into individual portions so it's not too much of a hassle).

He also loves other veg - turnips (don't give too much as they're very starchy - my vet advises against feeding potatoes for this reason), carrots and really anything that's going. He also loves apples (ate a bag of 7 the other week and was VERY unwell) and bananas.

He gets scraps of meat when I've got them and I will buy some liver or kidneys (both cheap) and cook them for him now & then.

ali-t

Personally I wouldn't feed tinned food or IAMS but each to their own. My own choice is kibble supplemented with raw. This means the dogs get chicken wings, lamb necks and ribs, liver, kidney etc My local butcher makes up 'tubes' of minced offal that the dogs love.

Each to their own though and if your dogs looks good, have healthy coats, are full of life and their poo is firm and doesn't smell too bad you must be doing something right.

shelley_crow

I don't feed my staff tinned, it made his stools very loose. He's generally been on Proplan dried food since he was a puppy with the odd raw piece of meat if he's been good.

Kinski

I'm another one that would never feed Iams, it's a crap food and I also don't buy anything else that comes from P&G. One of my shelties is fed Orijen and my other one has renal failure so she gets some slop that passes for dog food but is just full of crap but if it helps keep her alive then that's what she'. I would love to feed barf but I hate handling raw meat.

nikki702

I would NEVER feed Iams they are so cruel to animals :eek:

My dog has skinners too (salmon and rice) mixed with a small amount of tinned meat

Barneysmom

Sardines on toast for breakfast, a dental stick mid-afternoon, then tinned food at 5.00 p.m. Dried food kept getting left in the dish so I went back to tinned.

nikki702

Barneysmom wrote: »

Sardines on toast for breakfast

My dog would love it at your house :rotfl:

rising_from_the_ashes

Barneysmom wrote: »

Sardines on toast for breakfast.

nikki702 wrote: »

My dog would love it at your house :rotfl:

Wow, mine would too!

He also loves fish so will get a bit if it's reduced at the supermarket and cook for him.

Just popped back to say he's a lab (in case you were thinking - oh it lasts 7 weeks, well that really helps if it's a teeeeny wee dog and I've got a mid-sized one).