What do you feed your dog?

dawnie1972

Does anyone on this thread feed the new Wainwrights Grain Free food - they've just introduced the grain free version of the wet food and am wondering whether to switch mine to it - Dolly keeps getting bad skin irritation flare ups which the vet said is midges/mites biting her but this year has been the worst ever and didn't know whether a grain free food would help her.

Sally22_2

I feed my 10 month old puppy on a mix of wet and dry...She is a Patterdale X Yorkie weighing about 6kg and unlikely to get any bigger.

She has Butchers Puppy tinned food and IAMs Puppy dry food, she gets fed twice a day. Costs about £15pm. Not sure what to move onto once she is 12 months yet.

Tried her on Pedigree wet and dry foods when we first got her and it didn't agree with her at all but she is fine on what she has now.

zaksmum

Just had an elderly man approach me while I was out with my two dogs.

He said his old dog had recently died and he used to feed it on ground up chicken carcasses which kept it very healthy...till it died, that is!

Anyway he produced an old soup tin with a foil lid on it from the depths of his shopping trolley. He said to feed it to my dogs so I took it just to be polite. Needless to say it went in the nearest bin but the dogs did seem very interested in the smell of it.

So I'm wondering if this sort of thing could actually be fed to the dogs?

krlyr

Mine eat chicken carcasses, though not ground up, and only as part of their raw diet. Based on the prey model diet, bones should only make up 10% of the diet - the BARF style feeding usually involves a higher amount of bone but would still include meat and offal.

ripoffbritian

Boiled rice and cheap off cuts of meat cook by yourself mixed. This way it is VAT free pet food. Also some medicines used by us are the same as used long term for pets. For us they are sometimes cheaper to buy than via a Vet and the charging VAT at 20%. However let a Vet decide what your pet needs, then see if you can get the treatment cheaper...

big5

We feed our dog Arden Grange adult dry food. She enjoys it (though to be fair, she enjoys pretty much anything remotely edible) and our vet says she's in great condition.

We order it online and last month we ran out before the new bag arrived, so had to pop to the local shop to buy something to feed her for a couple of meals. Bought a tin of Pedigree Chum (it was that or Bakers Complete), and omg, the smell of her poo after she'd eaten that was vile!!! :eek: Never again!

Eeyore2009

Butchers tinned tripe

niandsa

dawnie1972 wrote: »

Does anyone on this thread feed the new Wainwrights Grain Free food - they've just introduced the grain free version of the wet food and am wondering whether to switch mine to it - Dolly keeps getting bad skin irritation flare ups which the vet said is midges/mites biting her but this year has been the worst ever and didn't know whether a grain free food would help her.

I swapped my 20 month old to the dried version of the above a couple of months ago. She was on Eden before but her poos were never 100% firm on that. She has been so much better on the Wainwrights. She had rabbit in the morning and lamb in the evening for variety.

dawnie1972

thank you niandsa. I got them some Wainwrights Grain Free on Saturday. Took them for a walk Sunday and my eldest did SIX poo's but they were all really firm and solid - I tried them on Eden a few months ago - NEVER AGAIN, it was running out of them - horrible.

faded_flowers

Wainwrights dry - she does well on the Turkey and the Salmon varieties. Have just learnt not to try the duck one again though...