Best dry food?

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I've been feeding Wainwrights to my dog for about 5 months.

But reading though threads this isn't the best quality he can get.

I did have him on Orijen for a month and he hated it! Plus it was twice the price.

So... what do you suggest for a 10 month old border terrier (Bakers?! :D)
 
We feed james wellbeloved large breed for dry but they only get 80g of it a day to get them started in a morning (more convenient for me with an autistic son to get ready for school) and then ours have raw the rest of the time. I would say applaws is probably one of the best dry foods as its 75% meat and no grains, if i was to change our food i'd use that but it would be too much hassle with 6 dogs.
 
Pero adult chicken and rice:

Chicken (minimum 26%), Maize, Oats, Rice, Barley, Poultry Fat, Poultry Meat Meal, Peas, Sugar Beet, Vitamins & Minerals, Blended Herbs.

Not as bad as some but too much grain, IMO.
 
hmmm im new to dog owning and we were recommended pero after feeding bakers and having a very hyper dog ... we feed the one with pasta and it seems very good :) x
 
It's better than Bakers, I'll give it that!

Pero gold with pasta: Extruded Cereals, Meat Products, Pasta, Animal Fats, Fishmeal, Vegetable Oils, Vitamins and Minerals, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12, Biotin, Folic Acid, Nicotinic Acid (Niacin), Pantothenic Acid from Calcium Pantothenate, Deoderase – a natural extract from the yucca plant to aid in neutralising offensive odors

It always concerns me when an ingredients list doesn't contain anything that you'd naturally put in a dog's bowl - even to my wheat tolerant dog I wouldn't offer a bowl of pasta, processed cereal, animal fat, oil and meat product. I'd give him a bowl of meat or, at a push, meat and rice.

The 'deoderase' probably wouldn't be necessary if it contained a bit less wheat. :p
 
PERO (gold, with pasta)

Price (15kg): £25.21
Suggested daily amount: 310g
Daily feeding cost: 52p

Ingredients: Extruded cereals, meat products, pasta, animal fats, fishmeal, vegetable oil, vitamins, minerals, biotin, folic acid, nicotinic acid, pantothenic acid from calcium pantothenate, deoderase (yucca extract)

Tasty! Not good quality. Meat products can be feet, beaks, feathers. Yum! Lordy, who recommended it?!

And did the manufacturer spell it wrongly? Pero=but in Spanish. Perro=dog. :D
 
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BARKING HEADS (''Good Hair Day'', lamb & rice)

Price (12kg): £37.88
Suggested daily amount: 200g
Daily feeding cost: 63p

Ingredients: Boneless lamb, dried lamb (total lamb 50%), brown rice, oats, barley, trout, lamb fat, natural flavours, lucerne, seaweed, tomato, glucosamine, chondroitin

3rd, 4th, 5th ingredient all fillers, unnecessary. Quite expensive for the not so amazing ingredients. Who is sponsoring your breeder friend to plug it? What was that about no cereals?!
 
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If your dog is happy and healthy on wainwrights then why change, I think for content and budget it's pretty much one of the best, and easy to get hold of :)

Taste of the wild is highly rated I think :)
 
Taste of the Wild
Ingredients: Bison, venison, dried lamb meat, dried chicken meat, eggs, sweet potatoes, peas, potatoes, canola oil, roasted bison, roasted venison, natural flavourings, tomatoes, ocean fish meal, salt, choline chloride, dried chicory root, blueberries, raspberries, yucca schidigera extract, dried fermentation products of enterococcus faecium, lactobacillus acidophilus, lactobacillus casei and Lactobacillus plantarum, dried trichoderma longibrachiatum fermentation extract, quality vitamins, minerals, potassium iodide, manganous oxide, biotin, calcium pantothenate, sodium selenite, folic acid.
 
I would get taste of the wild if I was richer! But by feeding the wet and dry wainwrights, and raw ever so often I think he's getting a good deal :)

Taste of the wild sounds like I'd like to eat it, and I'm veggie :D
 
In the end I decided to go with the Wainwrights adult food, he loves it, was meant to mix it in with the puppy food and he just leaves the puppy food!

(Also I had a £20 PaH voucher to say sorry for me finding a large chunk of random food in the puppy mix!)
 
blackcob said:
Hills is actually a very poor food but because it's expensive and in a shiny packet with scientific waffle on the front people always think it's great. :o
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i understand, but it wasnt the shiny packet it was because the vets recommend it and sell it (I know there will be a reason for that as well)
how much is the Applaws? and what is a good quality food? (I'll re -read thread as well)
 
Lovescobs said:
i understand, but it wasnt the shiny packet it was because the vets recommend it and sell it (I know there will be a reason for that as well)
how much is the Applaws? and what is a good quality food? (I'll re -read thread as well)
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Hill sponsor some of the couple of days dog feeding (I won't call it nutrition & have been on the course) training that vets do.
They have a larger mark up on Hills than other outlets.

There are lots of better foods and some are much better & much cheaper.
 
I have just bought a 9 week old Bischon x.
The owner - I won't say breeder because this was her dog,s first and aparently only litter,
said puppy has been fed on bakers complete with a tablespoon of tinned food at night.
I went to sainsbury and bought puppy iiams for her.
Went to the vet this morning with her and the vet asked me what I was feeding her and made no comment when told she was eating Iiams.
Could there be another complete that would be better for her?
I have not had a puppy for 15years since my yorkie and GS in 1997!
Thx
 
Someone on her recommended Skinners Field & Trial for my dogs, I bought it the other day and they all love it. Hopefully Skinny Sophie will put a bit of weight on with it! :)
 
Best dry food on the market, Eden Pets food by far! It is the only dry dog food in the UK to get 5 stars from which dog food website putting it in the same league as Orijen although a bit cheaper. They have 2 kibble sizes, small and normal size.

http://www.whichdogfood.co.uk/dog-food-review.php?id=0671

A bit like feeding raw but in kibble form and can be fed from pups weaning right up to the older dog. No nasty stuff in there, colours, additives, preservitives etc all natural and no crap to bulk things.

They have a facebook group and there is also access to advice from an independant animal nutritionalist should you need it, who is very informative about the rubbish that is in popular brands and what really dogs should be fed.

http://edenpetfoods.com/
 
I agree with Richmond Park. I only feed my dogs (and cats) from those foods listed with 5 stars on the which dog food website. I normally feed Natural Instinct to the dogs but have just ordered some Eden to keep at my mums for the odd occasion we find we are there at doggy dinner time and for emergencies at home.

The cats are on Orijen at the moment but will switch to Eden, as I expect it will be cheaper, when they release their cat food next summer.

The vets stocking Hills and Royal Canin don't really know anything about nutrition. Grains can cause all kinds of problems for dogs and symptoms, from the not noticed to severe reactions and allergies, are very often misdiagnosed until speaking to a decent canine nutritionalist or vet that knows his stuff which sadly are few and far between. (I am lucky to be able to use one)!
 
catherinem said:
Cobbydog!!!
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Cereals, wheat, maize are included in our complete dry dog*foods too. They are changed into glucose and are the easiest source of fuel for your dog’s body to use.

Primary ingredients are useless fillers. Wouldn't touch it. I prefer not to feed my dogs as though they were horses!

Iams are well known for animal experimentation.

My mate who's a vet says they had one day of nutrition training for all species but Hills no longer give the talks. They are still sponsored to sell it though.
 
Alll our dogs have always been fed cobbydog foods and have been in tip top condition, weve had terriers, sheepdogs, labs and never had a problem! My uncle is a stockist and people love it.... We have customers who race greyhounds off it, game keepers and shooters who feed there working dogs on it and people who feed it to the average pets. Id never feed anything else.... Fab value for money, great product range and good quality. Id recomemd it to anyone!
 
Pass! However the meat for most brands of dog/cat food comes
From a small number of factories which produce it so it could have happened to anyone! Also i cannot see how fallen stock would end up as animal feed as it is against the law.... Fallen stock is incineration only. The producers of the feed would not be able to know the bands in the meat if that was were they came from.
 
Personally preference and so do my dogs, Orijin and Acana, they are same company but with slightly different ratio on the protein, etc.
One of my fussy husky eater, doesn't super love it but either hate it. He eats well on these brand. Maybe because I am no longer give a choice to him to pick meal A, B, C, or D. So he just eat whatever is available in the bowl.


Somehow the food wasn't arrive on time, and I have to get something for them to eat. This fussy eater loves Barker ( not a good brand) very much. I believe the manufacturer designed to put a lot of flavorings, coloring in the formula to makes their product to be popular and makes owners believe it is "price for value".

Try James wellbelove before but they didn't scored high mark in the ranking.

If you find Orijin is expensive to run, try Acana, it is cheaper about 45 pound for13.5kg? zooplus.co.uk. where I normally order foodies for my doggies
 
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