Dog Food Questions - merged

provista_2

We feed our 11 month old border collie on Nutro.Costs £43 for 15kg, but cost per meal is only 37p.The lamb & rice is suitable for allergies etc.

mirrorimage0

hiya i am looking for some interesting doggy or cat snack recipes, i am doing a bootsale soon for a rescue that we got our nelson from so along with all our stuff i wanted to sell some homemade treats so if nyone has some recipes please pm or email them to me, thanks in advance. x

smileypigface

www.itsaspringthing.co.uk has a recipe section under Willows Kitchen - which has some tried and tasted recipes that our Springer highly recommends.

His particular favourite is liver bread which stinks the house out but tastes lush (apparently!).

Good luck with the fundraising

scruffy96uk

This might be worth a peek

http://www.videojug.com/tag/dog-food

Chip loves the honey and cream cheese

mirrorimage0

thankyou . x will let you know how they go

Samantha1985_2

I'm wondering if any of you Dog owners know of any offers on food at the moment. I have two dogs, a GSD and a Cavalier.

Both of my dogs are used to Royal Canin.. due to alot of debt at the moment I cannot afford to buy this full price so hold out for bogof or half price offers.. I ran out about 3months ago and still haven't found any great offers!

I bought them Eukanuba whilst that was on 1/2 price - but soon I will be scraping the bottom again and I can't seem to find any decent foods half price/bogof I don't have the heart to feed them some rubbish so if anyone knows of a site or shop with offers please let me know.

Thanks

Spudnik_2

What size are that bags that you've been buying?

elsien

Have a look at this thread. It has some good ideas for alternative foods that you might find useful.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1036373

Spudnik_2

As far as I can remember, Autarky is as cheap as it is because it's aimed at working dogs rather than pet dogs, and so is exempt from tax. I'm not sure if this is still the case - the protein level used to be a little higher than most other pet foods, but nothing to worry about if your dog gets plenty of exercise. It isn't the best of foods, but having said that there isn't as much of a difference between JWB and Autarky as they used to be as the quality of JWB has deteriorated a little over the past couple of years. It's still a good food by UK standards, but for the price you could probably find something much better. So if you're struggling for cash, do consider Autarky.

Regarding the Wagg sensitive... I wouldn't recommend it. Looking at the ingredients, it's only 4% meat meal. JWB used to be about 22% but, given that rice is now higher in the ingredients list than meat meal, this has probably reduced a little. Ingredients are listed in order of weight, and if rice is the second ingredient on the Wagg list and only makes up 4% of the food, the bulk of it is going to be Maize. So although you're paying only £1 per kilogram for it, you're going to have to feed much more than, for example, JWB because it is mainly grain and so much less of it will be digested by the dog. It'll work out as false economy, particularly for a dog with a sensitive digestive system.

Tricia2008

I would recommend finding a horse feed supplier, normally on a farm, we have a local one and dog food, treats, beds and coats are much cheaper. You can often buy the same food for less and they have other foods that the superstores and shops don't stock. Also mine will order in for me as well.