Dry dog food advice? Giving up raw for a while :(

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My dogs have been on the raw diet for around 5 months now and have been doing really well on it. However I am expecting a baby in 6 weeks and I am finding it increasingly hard to keep up the raw feeding. I find it difficult to source enough decent meat and storing and preparing it all takes time and effort. I am going to go back to dry dog food for a while until baby arrives and is settled, and hopefully we have a house of our own. (Sold our place and living with mum temporarily).

Was hoping someone could give me advice on a good quality dry dog food to start them on. I have 2 boxers. I have used JWB and Skinners in the past but neither was perfect.

Thanks
 
Have you considered a prepared raw food? Natural Instinct is very good, comes in plastic tubs with the meat already minced and containing everything needed, just spoon into the bowl. I used to do the raw food from scratch thing and gave it up in favour of this as it is so much easier and the quality is excellent.

If you really want to go back to dry I would recommend Markus Muhle, very natural, cold pressed (rather than extruded), can take a little persuasion for the dogs to take to it as it doesn't have the strong flavours and nasty fats added to make it palatable like the mainstream stuff does.

Hope that helps :-D
 
EmzT said:
Runny eyes, lots of hair loss, dull coats, one had itching on her stomach when on Skinners.
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Which version of Skinners? Obviously there is a fair chance of an allergy to one (or more ) of the ingredients but Skinners duck & rice or salmon and rice have fewer ingredients than JWB.
 
I know it's old fashioned, but we get on really well with Vitalin Original. I love the fact that I can see what's in it. It's not greasy, doesn't go rancid, and it mixes really well with table scraps etc. Looks just like meusli, and doesn't need to be soaked.
We have a really fussy setter, who looked poor no matter what, and it's been the making of her.

Currently trying hard to keep the new puppy from eating it, as she prefers it to her puppy food!
 
littlemissmuddypaws said:
Have you considered a prepared raw food? Natural Instinct is very good, comes in plastic tubs with the meat already minced and containing everything needed, just spoon into the bowl. I used to do the raw food from scratch thing and gave it up in favour of this as it is so much easier and the quality is excellent.

If you really want to go back to dry I would recommend Markus Muhle, very natural, cold pressed (rather than extruded), can take a little persuasion for the dogs to take to it as it doesn't have the strong flavours and nasty fats added to make it palatable like the mainstream stuff does.

Hope that helps :-D
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Sorry to hijack thread, but a pre made food like this could work for me and my dogs.

Are there any good sites for figuring out weight of food for weigh of dog on a daily basis. Just trying to figure out costs as we have four dogs to feed but I really like the benefits of raw diet.
 
Millie's wolfheart looked decent from leaflet I got at a show. It had a 3 meat ( duck rabbit Lamb?)& fish one with potato rather than rice. It was over my budget.otherwise would've given it a try.
 
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