Quick Q: dog food vs dog logs (sorry!)

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Have had Jimmy (smuggled) in with us since just before Christmas, he was having tripe and complete feed at mum's BUT we don't have the storage facilities for tripe at the mo, so put him on what Millie has - Aldi's own tinned meat and plain complete feed. I know that doesn't sound ideal but Millie's doing well on it and they wolf it down and tbh it's more within my tight shopping budget (until we move and I have space for tripe!)

However, most mornings we've come downstairs and there has been a dog log either by the back door or in the bathroom :/ it's definitely Jim as his whole persona changes when we enter the dining room (ears drop, tail drops, creeps away and grovels) It's not like him, yes the odd protest but not this regular! I've just resorted to fetching a cage from mum's for him to sleep in.

I then, out of curiosity (and perhaps should have done so before buying it) looked at the contents of my Aldi dog food!! The tinned meat isn't that bad but the complete feed is stupidly high in protein - could this be what is making him dump loads?

It was the first thing that sprung to my mind, he goes regularly OUTSIDE through the daytime. Millie's not affected although she has an iron gut any way!

Opinions please - and I will be changing my complete feed when I go shopping on Thursday
 
Its probably not the protein content. People get very stuck on must be low protein but actually the higher protein for adult dogs is better.

He's probably just not use to the food. Having that much (sorry to say it) rubbish passing through him will create far more poop than he is use to.
 
Don't apologise, I know it's not fabulous!

So the protein level's ok just the food's crap (pardon the pun) he's not eating more quantity wise, still 2 meals a day. About half a handful of the complete and a couple of spoons of the tinned stuff.

Can you (or anyone) recommend a cheap but good food? Like I said, it's only until I have room to store tripe
 
Skinners hypo is OK and cheap. The more bags you buy the cheaper too.

With the tripe when he digests it he is using all of it and not really eliminating anything from it (just like with raw there is hardly any poop)

But with the complete and tinned there is so much stuff in there that he can't digest/ doesn't need that it has to come out somewhere hence the more pooping.
 
I think Skinners is the cheapest 'good' dry food that's usually recommended on here. :)

I've just had a look at the ingredients of both the dry and wet Aldi brand foods and they are astonishing. :eek:
 
The amount of poop my two Spins produce has dramaticly reduced since changing them to raw, much easier to pick up as well!! other than when Skye pinched all the eggs about 14 of them then her poop was rather interesting. It does just show how much of complete food they don't digest.
Saying all that our very old collie she is 14 1/2yrs, gets complete food plus a small amount of tined, she wasn't interested in raw food and sometimes has to be tempted to eat.
 
This is interesting, I really ought to spend more time reading the food threads!!

So with raw, that's what? Chicken wings and such - isn't that quite expensive?

I like tripe but atm no where to store

We've always fed tripe with complete, or rather that's what mine were having when they lived with my mum.

I was told a while back that tripe on it's own's not enough, would that be the same with raw?

Argh! It doesn't take much for my mind to boggle!!
 
Raw should not be fed with dog food ever.

Most of my dogs diet is made up of chicken, turkey and offal. In england it cost me about 15 pounds a month to feed 2 dogs.

You need freezer space to make it that cheap.

I don't think tripe on its own is enough but i know some people do feed it that way i just wouldn't. Its added to my dogs raw about twice a month.

Raw is a thousand times better than dog food.
 
Think I may have to persuade OH to let me have a "dog" drawer in the freezer and make space!!

Right that narrows it down to raw or tripe and complete - it's the complete that's baffling me most!

If I go for raw, is it literally the chicken bits (or turkey) that I'd buy for myself? Sorry, not deliberately trying to sound thick!!
 
I buy whole chickens and cut them up myself but i will also get any meat thats in the sell off sections.

Thats what you have got to get good at. Trawling the sell off sections :D
 
They'd be better fed than me lol! I butchered a chicken the other day, though for me not the dogs! I was pleased with it but I think a butcher would have cried lol!

How much would they need, they're JRTs
 
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