Great Feed, House and Keep Your Pets Hunt

bramble1

We feed our puppy working dog food, he's a really fussy eater and this is the only thing he will eat at the moment. It's called Gusto and is £5.50 for 7.5KG! I know it's not the best food around, but, he eats it and it's great value for money.

laura_d

It's an expensive outlay but Orijen is a fantastic food for dogs (they do cat food too).

A 13kg bag will set you back around £50-60 BUT because of its ingredients and nutrional values, you will end up feeding your pet a lot less than other brands. I used to feed my dog around 200g of Bakers a day but she now gets just 75g of Orijen and maintains the same weight.

The 13kg bag lasted me just short of 6 months and that was feeding a female staffie who weighs 14kg. That worked out at just under £10p/m, FAR less than buying a bag of Bakers or Pedigree which she'd get through in a week!

Since switching to Orijen, my dog's coat has become incredibly shiney, her flatulence has almost stopped entirely and her stools are small and healthy (as stools go!).

What makes Orijen unique to other foods and the reason you use less of it is that it contains 70% meat product and 30% veg/fruit. It has absolutely NO grains which most dogs find difficult to digest.

It IS an expensive outlay but thought I would mention it here as it's a great food and does work out cheaper than other foods over time!

rita-rabbit

timmmers wrote: »

My 3 lads have a thing for Felix meat in tins recently. It's on offer today and probably for a while yet at Mossisons 2x6 packs of 400g tins (meat of fish) for £5.50 which is cheap...and it stores OK in tins so you can fill your boots if your cat likes it.

t

My two shed alot more fur & one had dandruff feeding them this & as they use litter trays the smell was SO strong

h007

pets at home are doing an online offer for 1 day only

james well beloved 2kg bags bogof
and the larger bags are bogohp

h007

there is a thread elsewhere (sorry i cant find it) saying morrisons are doing whiskas oh so.... x12 for half price

hth

charlysez

is anyone a visitor to costco? i have been told they sell skinners dog food 20kg bags for £12........ would be worth the trip if its true, or if anyone can post various dog food prices from costco for comparisons

thanks

faded_flowers

The 99p store today had Nature's Menu cat pouches 4 for 99p - at least half price from usual I think. Only flavour was chicken, salmon and tuna. 70% meat

h007

pets at home are doing james wellbeloved bogof for 24hrs starting tomorrow morning

missmontana

Pampurred Pets are doing 2kg bags of Hills Science Plan Adult for £9.99 until 9/5/2010.

Honey_Bear

Fab thread, and thanks everyone for all the wisdom. The elderly dog I adopted three months ago has had a seriously dodgy tummy on and off pretty much continuously and I finally realised yesterday that the problem is Hills I/D - the one and only food I was told she should be having! It was great for the previous dog, but it doesn't agree with this one, so it's not the food that's the problem, it's this dog.

The ony thing that I've found doesn't set her off is half and half chicken and rice mixed with Chappie - which she won't eat on its own. I'm really grateful for the info about the VetUK website - this dog has been getting through Prokolin like it's going out of fashion, and it's £3.77 a tube cheaper ordered from the website than my vet charges.

I like my vet, but I've shelled out £750 on this poor dog's digestion and urinary tract infections over months, and I believe in the maxim - if what you're doing isn't working, change what you're doing. So - no vets visits for three weeks or so, and we're finally getting to grips with the situation.

BTW, just to reinforce what a couple of other people have said, Iams is produced by Proctor and Gamble, and if you read up on them - they test on animals. I'm pleased to say that after a number of representations to the vets about this issue, they stopped selling it.

Can anyone recommend a low salt stock cube to zazz up the flavour of the hideous Chappie, so poorly tummy dog will eat it without the chicken and rice?