Best Quality Dog Food

If your dog has a sensitive stomach, I recommend Holistic Select Natural. It contains probiotics and digestive enzymes.

jemstone001 wrote: »

Hi all was looking for some advice. I have a 10 month old rescue puppy from Spain and have struggled to find food that she likes and doesn't cause an upset tummy. She is very much a mixed breed (we even paid for the dna test out of curiosity and she came back a bit of everything :rotfl:!)

She has had issues with being picky with food so she currently gets a mix of dry and wet food with a few treats for training but she goes through phases of not eating much. We have been giving her pedigree for the last couple of months but I have been hearing horror stories about the ingredients not being very nutritious. She had a rough start before we rescued her so want to give her something to try and help any damage that may have been done. Broke my heart when we were told that the dogs were fed on donated food and if it started to run out they would feed every other day to help it last longer.

Any advice on what is a good quality food that would suit a sensitive tummy? She is a very windy dog so something to stop that would be greatly appreciated :rotfl:

Thank you for rescuing your puppy, how lucky she is to have you now. If a dog is not underweight fasting is not necessarily bad for health if they have a good covering over their ribs and a little dip in the waist, just a little one. Please don't take a recommendation from a vet regarding dog food as they have to promote certain foods. Do your own research.

I checked allaboutdogfood website and it opened my eyes to how much rubbish is in so called nutritious dog food. I used the cost checker for weight and age of my dog and settled on a british organic 80/20 no grain dog food. It worked out at less than £1 a day to have the best quality food available and it had a 5 star rating and complete nutrient and ingredient breakdown. Shockingly rubbish like Pedigree Chum or Purina costs more and is inferior.

Have a look and see what works for you. Eden Pet foods are suitable from weaning to old age. You will find that because the quality is so high you feed much less if you weigh the food out.

With regards to being fussy, most pet parents with the best intentions make their pet fussy but keep changing food and offering alternatives. This is the worst possible thing to do with a dog as you will condition it to be fussy. Dogs will not starve but they will hold out longer than you if you let them. This is called human training for dogs. If a dog doesn't eat its food, take the food up and offer the same food later. If it refuses again repeat the day after. The longest my dog held out was 4 days. However it was drinking water and well hydrated. When it realised there was no alternatives and no treats it gladly ate its food. Fasting for dogs is a s beneficial for dogs as it is for humans; very.

For me it's Royal Canine

We use Millies Wolfheart. We have a German Shepherd pup (almost 7 months old) who suffered terrible skin allergies from Wainwrights, James Wellbeloved, Royal Canin et al. We found Millies online which is grain free, 70% meat and 30% fish - you can smell the difference, trust me!

Since we have had him his stool has always been a bit runny and coat a bit greasy. Now we get all sorts of compliments from the vet and his stool is rock solid.

It's not cheap - we get two lots of the 14.5kg bag which is £51.99, but it's great stuff. Our Jack Russell/Poodle cross loves it too, and he wouldn't touch dry food for love nor money before.

Brookelloyd wrote: »

One article said that 95% of dog foods owned by big commercial brands as well as supermarket brands don’t reveal their exact ingredients and actually have hooves, feathers, beaks, connective tissues and wool (...I know! Wool!?) in recipes under “meat and animal derivatives”. This is shocking!

Why? If your dog killed and eat its own food, it would consume all those things, even bits of wool, skin and hair from the prey.