So what do you feed yours?

Raw ,tripe /head meat coarse mix,chook carcases or wings,the very occasional Bonio bik or handful of Wagg..their MacDonalds treat..raw eggs ,and Saturdays means meaty bones. Very hard to keep them lean on this,and anyone truly fat is fed on a couple of spoons of Chum or Tesco Supermeat with AllBran until it lokks more normal.
Chappie is a great food for dodgy tummies,the Kent police dog section fed it to their runnytummy GSD`s, `spect they`re fed horrid dry nowadays though. In fact there was one copper whose dog chewed it`s kennel a lot,so it was entirely lined with flattened out Chapie tins!
 
Switched to Skinners Field & Trial in January (from Chudleys) and both dogs look fab on it . . . it's the only food I've found that doesn't make Daisy itch. They also get the odd offcut of meat when I'm cooking, raw eggs/shells, the odd piece of raw carrot and (my concession to junk food) one or two of those Purina dog biscuits (the small ones) a day (although we've run out, so they haven't had those for a couple of weeks).

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Polly likes egg shells :) I know grapes are poisonous but is it ok to feed other fruits; Polly loves bananas, melon, pineapple and peaches. She loves raw courgettes too apparently!
 
EAST KENT said:
Chappie is a great food for dodgy tummies,the Kent police dog section fed it to their runnytummy GSD`s, `spect they`re fed horrid dry nowadays though. In fact there was one copper whose dog chewed it`s kennel a lot,so it was entirely lined with flattened out Chapie tins!
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Yeah, I had heard a lot of police forces use it for the sensitive ones...but what would they know, sure they are all a bunch of dog abusers :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
Agreed cavecanem. Like I've said I have tried allsorts with mine (except for crappy foods) & it really seems to be the only thing he can stomach in the vast quantities he needs, i.e. a large can a day. A handful of raw meat or leftovers is fine, but as a sole intake sets his stomach off. And on the one occasion he managed to eat a bowl of Tesco homebrand at a friends it was unpleasant to say the least.
 
Applaws chicken for Betsy. We have tried loads of other dry foods and applaws is what suits her (and the most expensive....)
She is a good weight (Complimented by the vet last week!!), not itchy and her poops are 'normal'.

She also gets loads of fish / eggs / naturediet and raw 2 or 3 days a week.
 
Succulent organic, free range, corn fed chicken legs, 21 days matured Aberdeen Angus beef mince with a hint of rosemary, free range silken egg yolks marinaded with Italian herbs, handmade wholemeal pasta gently boiled in Evian with a pinch of crushed sea salt. This is not just dog food. This is B&S dog food.;):D
 
cinnamontoast said:
Horrible. Have you even looked at the ingredients or do you just not care? And of course they love it, it's like eating McDonalds constantly or letting your child eat nothing but sweets. Its probably stuffed full of colours, additives, fake stuff to make it taste nice and some lovely carcinogenic additives. Yum.

I HATE it when people say 'they love it'. My youngsters loved eating their own s*** when they were babies. Don't think it was good for them, tho.

If you want cheap, go raw. You seriously cannot get cheaper food.
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Please don't tell me I don't care, it is offensive and rude. I feed what I do because that is the food that they have settled on after spending literally fortunes on everything else. I have 2 who are extremely picky and frankly other foods are only any good if the dog will eat them in the first place. They eat this and look fantastic and are extremely fit and healthy.
 
Suelin said:
Please don't tell me I don't care, it is offensive and rude. I feed what I do because that is the food that they have settled on after spending literally fortunes on everything else. I have 2 who are extremely picky and frankly other foods are only any good if the dog will eat them in the first place. They eat this and look fantastic and are extremely fit and healthy.
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Not beng funny, but you came across as going for the cheapest as opposed to doing research in your first post on this thread. :confused: Whilst you don't need to explain yourself, do read back what you wrote because it comes across as you went for cheap as opposed to caring about what's in the food. Maybe you're just being flippant.

I fed mine for years on supermarket brands. It may or may not be related that one was PTS because of a huge mass in his stomach, although the specialist told me it was most probably linked to his nutrition. I would urge any owner to check the ingredients very carefully. BHT and BHA are often left out of the published ingredients. Google a list of EC permitted additives. If any are present in your dog's food, I would rethink what you give, regardless of how many other types you have to try. My dog looked brilliant on the day he was PTS. You cannot tell how the dog is internally.
 
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Succulent organic, free range, corn fed chicken legs, 21 days matured Aberdeen Angus beef mince with a hint of rosemary, free range silken egg yolks marinaded with Italian herbs, handmade wholemeal pasta gently boiled in Evian with a pinch of crushed sea salt. This is not just dog food. This is B&S dog food.;):D
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My cheapo supermarket pasta just went everywhere, thanks.......


CT, while your passion is admirable, as I mentioned, sometimes dogs are not textbook.

B was tried on: Royal Canin, Arden Grange, James Wellbeloved, Skinners, Jollyes, Beta, Red Mills, Wainwrights and a couple of others the names of which evade me.

By far the best food he was on for him was Jollyes which was cheap rubbish, £19 a bag. It was discontinued. Wainwrights was a close second but his condition eventually began to fail again.
The more premium food we seemed to use, the worse he became.

He was tried on raw Christmas/NY either 2009 or 2010 and his condition went off the scale, he was almost completely bald and scratching so hard his skin (which was by this time blackened and stinking) he was bleeding. He smelled like he was dead and rotting inside and out.

He is now on Chappie and if there is no Chappie in the shop he gets whatever the own brand is in the shop.

Yes he may fail again but I never thought he would come back from his last relapse. Maybe I should have persevered with raw but I could not watch my dog eating himself from the outside in. People who told me to put him down a long time ago are shocked at how he has bounced back this time, so quickly, in terms of his weight, his coat and his attitude.

As mentioned I absolutely think raw is the best diet for a dog, IF IT SUITS THE DOG. My young one has been on raw since he was weaned and is thriving.

Yes, B might die young, in fact, I am convinced of it and would be surprised if he makes old bones, but I would rather he was comfortable in the short term than tearing his own hair out because I thought I was feeding him food with better ingredients.
 
I don't think any dog is textbook :confused: and I do think you should feed what suits the dog, but I don't understand the somewhat blasé attitude of some owners (mostly on the other forum).

Having been a very ignorant owner and feeding crap because I knew no better, I feel terrible. Now I check. I'm not saying don't feed Chappie tins, for example. It's recommended for being bland, unlikely to upset tummies etc.

What I do find crazy is people knowingly feeding carciogenics eg Bakers, Wagg, Pedigree chum and Chappie dry. However, I'm just someone sat behind a computer screen, certainly no expert. People can ignore as they choose but I will continue to bang my drum on s*** dog food. :)
 
Cheap raw from the butcher so free range mostly and the occasional raid of the supermarket reduced section (they had rump steak last week 10p each (have kept 3 back for me), got £24 worth of chicken thighs the other night for 80p!!!!!), great variety, great ingredients, human quality, no additives preservatives or flavourings, easy to feed easy to store. Poo less smelly, firm and easy to pick up, clean teeth, no fleas, lovely coat. If I'm on holiday they get whatever I can find and if I'm far from civilisation a packet of sausages rather than dog food!
 
cinnamontoast said:
Not beng funny, but you came across as going for the cheapest as opposed to doing research in your first post on this thread. :confused: Whilst you don't need to explain yourself, do read back what you wrote because it comes across as you went for cheap as opposed to caring about what's in the food. Maybe you're just being flippant.

I fed mine for years on supermarket brands. It may or may not be related that one was PTS because of a huge mass in his stomach, although the specialist told me it was most probably linked to his nutrition. I would urge any owner to check the ingredients very carefully. BHT and BHA are often left out of the published ingredients. Google a list of EC permitted additives. If any are present in your dog's food, I would rethink what you give, regardless of how many other types you have to try. My dog looked brilliant on the day he was PTS. You cannot tell how the dog is internally.
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Not flippant at all. the question was "What do you feed yours?" I answered the question, no more no less. If you'll pardon the pun you appear to be making a bit of a meal of this.
 
GSD Royal Canine dry food ad-lib (dog is not at all greedy) and one block of frozen tripe mince (raw) defrosted in the evening.

I used to feed my dog normal dried food (Omega Tasty O working dog dry food which was the only one she liked actually), and 1 large tin of Butchers or similar, but had to start doing a bit of research when she got Pancreatitis and Colitis.

She is a very fussy 10 year old GSD who can't eat anyting fatty.

Funnily enough my vet did say that if I needed to feed tinned food, chappie was the best, and in fact at once stage in her treatment when she started to refuse to eat her boiled chicken and rice recommended that I mix a little chappie in to encourage her. I guess if it is rice based and quite low in fat that is why it would be suitable, when otherwise she can't eat canned food in large quanitites.
 
Fish4dogs and I'm really pleased with it. She was very thin until she started eating this and her coat also looks amazing on it. I would never had heard of it if it hadn't been for this forum. So while everyone has different views and some are stronger than others it's worth reading through the postings to help you make your own mind up.
 
Pets. At home advanced nutrition lamb and rice but may give autarky a try now as its a bargain from the looks of things
 
cinnamontoast said:
What I do find crazy is people knowingly feeding carciogenics eg Bakers, Wagg, Pedigree chum and Chappie dry. People can ignore as they choose but I will continue to bang my drum on s*** dog food. :)
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Again with Suelin that has quite upset me. I HATE having to feed my dog Wagg, but if the alternative is a dog so skinny I can count his VERTEBRAE and having the RSPCA out all the time then Wagg it is. He is a happy, bouncy 5 year old now and looks a good weight. He does get table scraps on top of his dry food.
So if you have any suggestions apart from: Burns, JWB, Arden Grange, Autarky, Chappie and Vitalin working (I don't have the facilities for BARF and he wouldn't even look at Skinners.), then please feel free to enlighten me....
 
Now i feed my lab pup and parents Newfy on a local dog kibble which is same as skinners ingredients. But i don't believe that all cheap food is going to kill early- my collie cross lived to 18 and was only pts due to arthritis. She never had anything other than pedigree biscuits and then bakers gravy mix- it never harmed her!
 
VixieTrix, Skinners isn't a bad place to start if you are swapping foods.
I was very pleased with how my dog was doing on the Salmon & rice skinners - I took him off it and bought a 'better' food but it has had the opposite effect. Back to Skinners I go :)

When you're assessing your dog on a food, whichever you choose, although his condition should be monitored, also look at his poos as they're a pretty good indicator of what's going on inside him. My dog had the best poos on weinwrights and skinners...... But skinners is cheaper & I'm poor!
 
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