Alf the ASBO doesn't like complete dry food - what else is good??

[Starbucks]

Ok, I've read on here that tinned dog food isn't very good for dogs?? Alfie won't eat complete - we've tried a few brands but he's not interested.

We've been giving them Pedigree better by nature, they love it and it looks quite nice - what are your opinions on it??

Also - what am i supposed to feed it with?? On it's own, mixed with complete or mixed with mixer??

 

[lilym]

ideally fed with a mixer, better wet foods are nature's menu, naturediet and forthglade, or have you checked out frozen raw foods??

 

[piebaldsparkle]

LOL sounds like he has 'trained' you beautifully!!!! My dad actually believes the my JRT won't eat just dry food and ' needs ' dog meat and a bonio on the top!!!

Funnily enough he happily eat just dry food if I feed him, but then he knows he will get nothing else. When I went on holiday he also trained my friend to feed him only dog treats and bacon and flatly refused to his his normal dog food that I had left for him. Be strong he is taking the pee.......is he a terrier by any chance??

 

[Onyxia]

No idear if you should do it or not but we used to pour weak gravey on dry food with fussy eaters,worked a treat

Never told my mother....was so funny to wtch her try to fork feed GSD that "wouldnt" eat dry food from her bowl

Good we were evil children...hope R is nicer to me

 

[GinaB]

I put hot water on the Beast's food if she's being fussy about eating it, releases the flavour and she eats it better (obv.I let the water cool down first

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[sloulou]

Try Forthglade or naturediet with a mixer like Laughing Dog mixer.

These are all supposed to be good quality

Although there are good quality dry foods available too - like burns or I think there is a new one called land of holistic pets? I think James Well beloved is also meant to be good.

I also read about a new wet food called Applaws - which also sounds good (and looks quite good in the pictures too!) but not tried it...

 

[whippet]

Mine have Nature Diet, I think it has less crap in it than a lot of canned meats; it was a total godsend when the youngest had colitis as a pup....I was at my wit's end, all he could stomach was poached cod & white rice, he looked like a hat rack. Discovered Nature Diet fish variety, and v.slowly weened him onto their other varieties over several months. I seriously think without it he'd have wasted away.
Also, IMO, you may manage to reduce excessive 'bad' behaviour on it as it hasn't got all the naughty-causing additives & extras that a lot of dog food has. (mind you, if it's a pup you'd be worried if there wasn't a bit of good old fashioned naughtiness

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Stinks a bit tho

ETA, I personally wouldn't give my dogs Pedigree, or many of the others on supermarket shelves, it's a long time since I actually read one of their labels, but I remember not liking the sound of some of the ingredients last time I did.