Dog Food Questions - merged

Dennis99

My 2 love their Burns tinned and mixer.
It seems expensive to start but they need much less than some products because it's not full of filler and rubbish.
As a rule of thumb to feed an adult dog on Burns dry food it's 10grams of food per 1kg of dog, so a Lab would have around 300g a day.

suki1964

Rule of thumb is pet food made human food manufactures is rubbish as its the way they get rid of their waste products at a profit.

Stick to the specialist brands, burns, arden grange, naturediet, james well beloved etc.

Did you ask your breeder what they feed?

Mabelicious_2

Burns, by far the best. Bakers is the equivelant of a Happy Meal for dogs. Full of crap.

You can get free samples of James Wellbeloved which is also very good. Their samples disappear very quickly each day so you might have to try for a few days.

http://www.wellbeloved.com/products/free_sample.aspx

mirrorimage0

we prefer feeding arden grange at the moment seems to be one of the better ones around

user55

What suits your dog may vary from other people's though. I've just been trying Burns. I've given it a couple of weeks now, and my dog's poos are just unacceptably sloppy. Much reduced in volume, but can't pick it up! (sorry LOL!)

Dobiesmon

Hi
I have 3 Dobermans and have in the past have used Arden Grange, Burns , but I found Nutro to be better, http://www.nutro.co.uk/
Look at the list of ingredients first on the list is whats in it most .
But I now feed Barf ( raw )

elsien

I had a passerby today comment on doggins getting fat - helpful of them, I thought!
She's not obese but is a bit on the portly side. She's spayed, probably 10 or 11ish, and doesn't get as much exercise as she did, due to a combination of arthritis on her part, and laziness after a long shift on mine.
I've cut down her food as much as I can - any more and she goes into starvation mode and starts hoovering the pavement everytime we go out. I can't fill her up with extra veggies due to her colitis. She doesn't get treats at all, so it's not that.
I do need to exercise her more but I've never tried the senior food with any previous dogs, so didn't know whether it would make any difference weight wise. I won't be seeing the vet anytime soon ( fingers crossed) to ask his advice, so wondered if any of you peeps thought it might help - all of my previous dogs just stayed on their ordinary food till they popped their clogs.
Thanks.

suki1964

If your dog is getting porky then you need to either cut down the calories or up the exercise.

I know its hard work to walk a dog after a long shift yourself but you dont need to walk far, and you could always play a ball game. I have a chuckett and two tennis balls for mine when Im just too knackered for a hike.

Putting her on a lower calorie food - the senior will help as long as it doesnt effect her colitis

louisdog

Mine are both on senior food, just switched to it from regular adult when they reached a certain age. Louis was a bit plump so he switched at seven years old, and I have only just switched Jake over now, at eight and a half, but I might switch him back or to half and half as I think he looks too thin now!

elsien

suki1964 wrote: »

If your dog is getting porky then you need to either cut down the calories or up the exercise.

I said portly, not porky. Wash your mouth out!:rotfl: