what do you feed your jack russell?

skintandscared_2

Misty_Blue wrote: »

I definitely wouldn't go with Royal Canin if you're looking for a brand with better meat content and fewer fillers. This is the ingredients list from the Jack Russell version. Not good, especially for the price!

Dehydrated poultry protein, rice, maize, vegetable protein isolate, wheat, animal fats, hydrolysed animal proteins, maize gluten, beet pulp, minerals, fish oil, soya oil, yeasts, fructo-oligo-saccharides, hydrolysed yeast, borage oil (0.1%), marigold extract, green tea and grape extracts, hydrolysed crustaceans and hydrolysed cartilage.


"Virtually all of the Royal Canin range is based heavily on poultry meal, white rice, maize and wheat, none of which are particularly desirable in a dog food. Poultry meal is ok but it is always best to look for meats with named animal meat sources (like chicken, turkey, duck etc.); white rice is little more than a starchy filler while maize and wheat have both been consistently linked to dietary intolerance and digestive problems.


The other problem is that no percentages are provided for any of the ingredients making it very difficult to gauge the true quality of the food and also allowing the ratios of the ingredients to change from batch to batch."

Thanks for this info. Our problem is getting something he will actually eat though! We have tried Eden, several Purina ones, James Wellbeloved and Arden Grange and he's just not interested. I'd rather he eat SOME dry food than none. And I know the forthglade wet is good stuff.

trolleyrun

You could also try giving your JRT a small charcoal biscuit per day to help against whiffy windypops

asparagus1968

trolleyrun wrote: »

You could also try giving your JRT a small charcoal biscuit per day to help against whiffy windypops

gosh, sounds good, where do you get them from? (mmmm,could the DS have one smuggled into his cheerios too....)




back from shopping, have got some grain free dry food, so will give that a go.

trolleyrun

I get Pipsqueak's charcoal biscuits from either the local independent pet shop or PaH. At PaH, they're in the "pick n mix" section, and perfect size for a JRT. It's done wonders for Pipsqueak's whiffy bottomburps

You can also get charcoal biscuits for humans :rotfl:
(I had to eat a bunch of them when I had food poisoning years ago)

RuthnJasper

trolleyrun wrote: »

I get Pipsqueak's charcoal biscuits from either the local independent pet shop or PaH. At PaH, they're in the "pick n mix" section, and perfect size for a JRT. It's done wonders for Pipsqueak's whiffy bottomburps

You can also get charcoal biscuits for humans :rotfl:
(I had to eat a bunch of them when I had food poisoning years ago)

They are also the black ones in boxes of Shapes biscuits. My first dog (also, coincidentally, a JR called Jaki) used to have one of each type for breakfast! The yellow ones were her favourites... we thought she was dutifully eating them all - until the day my mum decided to reupholster the sofa and found dozens and dozens of the black biscuits wedged into one of the side cushions through a concealed hole... Bless her (Jaki), long dead now, but was always a little pickle!

trolleyrun

Pipsqueak goes through phases of liking them or not. She gets one before bedtime and she knows that if she eats the charcoal one, she gets a tasty one afterwards. If she doesn't eat it, she'll not get anything else. She's only allowed to eat in the kitchen, so I can keep an eye out for biscuit hiding

murphyslaw

Hi there we feed burns or Arden grange dry kibble to the jacks one fussy eater one not here

I tend to put mash, tuna or coley on the fussy ones dinner.

Found out a long time ago tinned food causes smells....cheap food costs more and makes them hyper due to the sugar and additives so we have spent the last few years feeding burns and Arden grange as they don't need as much, they are much calmer, healthy tummy and no smells

We also feed bones to give there terrier gremlins something to do and a recent find is a biscuit called nighties and they love them.

sheramber

Many of the dog food companies will send you smples if you ask.

Worth trying to find one that suits.