Whats the best food for a dog with a sensitive stomach

janeys

I also agree, Chappie is a great food for dogs with sensitive stomaches. We use the dry chappie for our 2 dogs (1 is diabetic) as recommended by our vets and they both thrive on it. Not too expensive either if you get it from pets at home when its on offer.

teddysmum

Both Butchers and Chappie are complete meals, though tinned, so you could leave out biscuits, if you so wished.


I can't stand the smell of Chappie, but my two love Butchers.

ian103

Didn't realise the butchers was a complete meal - thats good to know if we start having problems with her eating properly as she won't leave tinned dog food.

monty-doggy

We use James well beloved. It's just lamb and rice x

teddysmum

Lidl are doing 12 packs of Butchers tripe for £4.99

rising_from_the_ashes

The problem with all these sorts of things is finding out what the dog is actually having a problem with

Many manufacturers do "sensitive" foods but feeding say Sensitive Lamb & Rice is going to make things worse if Lamb or Rice are the problem


Butchers tripe tins are great - but again they are more than likely from cattle - so if beef is a problem then you're going to continue to have problems

I switched Maisie from Fish & Rice to Fish & Potato which in theory should be better as the new food is "grain free" - turns out she's intolerant to potato too!

You really need to try to find out what the problem foods are - a frustrating process I'm afraid

the_cat

Bringing up bile is often a sign of an overly empty stomach. Do you exercise her before feeding?
If so, a very small handful of food before exercise might help. Not the whole meal though, unless you wait at least an hour afterwards before your walk!

colazombie

After much trial and error, my greyhound who has awfully sensitive tum is on wainwrights trays(turkey and rice) and wainwrights dry(salmon and potato)
He did seem ok on tinned Chappie also, but wasnt keen on the dry Chappie.
He has only ever brought up bile when he has been really hungry, this was solved with a few biscuits at bed time to see him through until the morning

ian103

since we have reduced the mixer and used a larger portion of butchers she seems much better - not sure she is totally sorted but it seems to be improving. went to pets at home yesterday - what a vast choice of food. we'll pick a couple and try her,

we used to feed her on working dog dry food which seemed to suit her well, then she ate aldi food ok and the problems only really became apparent with lidl food.

she has a history of being a poor eater - when we adopted her the previous owners had fed her on cheese and gravy bones for 6 months or so

the_cat

Just a word of warning. Constant changes of diet are likely to be causing some of your problems! Any change should be made gradually over about a week, a little at a time.
The best thing to do is research https://www.whichdogfood.co.uk for a nutritious brand of food within your budget and stick with it for at least a couple of months to let your dog settle digestively