Food for a dieting dog!

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My little papillon has gotten a bit tubby lately- she is walked every day and has her food in a special ‘slow down’ bowl,and doesn’t get many extras except a bit of carrot and treats if training. So I’m looking to switch her food for a lower calorie option but I don’t want to feed her lots of fillers and rubbish. She’s currently on lily’s Kitchen dry food with a bit of forthglade chicken mixed in as she can be fussy. What do you feed your dogs if they need to lost a bit of weight of if they are good doers?
 
Yes, I do. Perhaps I should have explained more- due to her very serious accident a while back, she put on a bit of weight due to very limited mobility which I am now finding hard to shift. She’s only about 0.2kg over weight, but as she is so tiny it makes a difference.
 
Can you not just feed her a bit less of what she likes and has already? If you can now get her exercising again then you wouldn't need to cut it down by very much?
 
I just reduce the amount I feed slightly to lose weight over a few weeks. I weigh the food instead of using a measure to be more accurate. It avoids the possibility of an upset stomach through changing foods.
 
If you want something where you can feed the same volume VetSpec SuperLite is useful - however, I'd try cutting out the wet as above first if she were mine
 
Weigh food. If she’s that teeny even one or two extra pieces could be too much. My parents have a jug that weighs things. It amazing how different ‘a handful’ actually weighs, even if you think it’s the same as the previous day.
 
When we acquired Labrador No. 2 she weighed 42kgs, (you could have rested a tray on her back and eaten your dinner of it), she now weighs 28kgs, this was achieved by bulking out her food with grated carrot, this also slowed down her eating, feeding her little and often (so her stomach didn't think her throat had been cut!!) and increasing her exercise (slowly because she was so unfit that even standing up was an effort). We moved her onto Eden Country Cuisine and fed her much less than the recommended allowance. In my experience they rarely need the amount quoted in the feeding guidelines. She lost weight slowly and steadily and 6 years later she has maintained that weight loss (if only the same could be said of her owner!). She is still on Eden Country Cuisine now and at 16 Years is inspiring (if a little wobblesome on occasion!). Can you tell I love her?...❤️❤️❤️
 
Stiff Knees said:
When we acquired Labrador No. 2 she weighed 42kgs, (you could have rested a tray on her back and eaten your dinner of it), she now weighs 28kgs, this was achieved by bulking out her food with grated carrot, this also slowed down her eating, feeding her little and often (so her stomach didn't think her throat had been cut!!) and increasing her exercise (slowly because she was so unfit that even standing up was an effort). We moved her onto Eden Country Cuisine and fed her much less than the recommended allowance. In my experience they rarely need the amount quoted in the feeding guidelines. She lost weight slowly and steadily and 6 years later she has maintained that weight loss (if only the same could be said of her owner!). She is still on Eden Country Cuisine now and at 16 Years is inspiring (if a little wobblesome on occasion!). Can you tell I love her?...❤️❤️❤️
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'Gosh no I couldn't possibly fit another thing in'...said no labrador ever.
 
My Beagle was very fat when I got him. He cut treats out and upped his exercise. He is on Tails.com and they gave me the recommended amount to feed, I did cut this back as we also give plain rice. He does get some treats now as he has lost 4.5kg. He is prone to weight gain though so we try to keep his treats to a minimum and we are lucky he can be exercised off lead and will sprint after his ball (wont bring the bloody thing back though)
 
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