What do you feed your dog?

marmitepotato

My girl has Arden Grange White Fish and Potato as well as Burns Pork and Potato. She has a terrible reaction to beef in any form, at Christmas as I was getting the rib roast out of the fridge to cook, I accidentally spilt a bit of blood on the floor. The dog cleared it up before I had a chance to say 'no' to her. Such was the reaction to the beef blood that she scratched herself silly and suffered an infected spotty mouth, which she is only just getting over because the vet prescribed antibiotic to get rid. My vet tells me that beef is the number one irritant to dogs, followed by wheat gluten.

Hillary_ment

Given their choice, most dogs prefer canned or homemade diets. The aroma, flavor and palatability of dry diets do not match that of canned. So be always take care what your likes to eat. If you can't do that then take your dog to any pet professional like Love your pets . I always take my dog to them.

melly_g

I fed my cavalier king Charles a variety of things over his life including cans and bakers complete and he lived a healthy life until he died of old age at 15. I now have chi puppies and would never feed them bakers or cans of food because I think they are full of crap.
I am feeding them Hills mini puppy on the advice of vets and other people but even now I'm not sure what is the best thing to feed them. I want what is best for them but there is too much choice

SeaLion_2

I swap between Nature's Diet and Nature's Menu, cos he gets bored and goes off eating.
With the occasional chicken and rice for a treat. Plus Sunday dinner if we have one (not very often)

Nice firm poos.

dawnie1972

Paradigm wrote: »

I had a similar problem when first starting with Eden.

The first grain free I tried was Canagan which is very good but very expensive & I made the switch very gradually. No problems at all (except to my bank balance) with much firmer/smaller poos, even my boy who has had bowel trouble all his life.

If you can afford it then I highly recommend it but add it slowly.

Due to the cost I decided to try Eden (£20 a bag cheaper), like Canagan it's grain free with a high meat content but stupidly I didn't wean them onto it....big mistake :eek:

What I didn't realise was that Eden is very "generous" with it's recommended daily amount and, at around 80% protein, feeding too much causes rear end problems.

Before giving up I checked the interweb & many people had the same problem, the advice was to cut the amount fed.... trial & error gave excellent results Both mine are now well happy on around 2 thirds of what Eden advises.

I'd like to try Millies Wolfheart but am loathe to switch again unless problems arise.

It works for some it doesn't for others, I was giving them a third of what was recommended, they were constantly hungry and scavenging for food and I couldn't walk them in public as it was dripping out of Tia, plus working full time it didn't fit in with our life style, they are very happy on Wainwrights

Paradigm

dawnie1972 wrote: »

It works for some it doesn't for others, I was giving them a third of what was recommended, they were constantly hungry and scavenging for food and I couldn't walk them in public as it was dripping out of Tia, plus working full time it didn't fit in with our life style, they are very happy on Wainwrights

It does seem to be the case that some dogs just don't get on with it, a woman at work has tried it for about 3 months & had the same problems as you and now feeds something else.

It's a shame they don't sell smaller, sample, bags like Millies wolfheart do so people don't have to shell out £50 + only to find it's not suitable.

dawnie1972

Paradigm wrote: »

It does seem to be the case that some dogs just don't get on with it, a woman at work has tried it for about 3 months & had the same problems as you and now feeds something else.

It's a shame they don't sell smaller, sample, bags like Millies wolfheart do so people don't have to shell out £50 + only to find it's not suitable.

Yep I have quite a bit left here. Didn't like their attitude either, especially if your dog doesn't get on with their food.