What is the best wet food??

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What would you guys say the best wet food is?

I am currently feeding my westie on 200g of 'Naturalise' dog food, he has one meal a day (at tea time)

I was just wondering what your thoughts are on wet food, and what is the best out there?
 
Nature Diet, Applaws, Wainwrights trays all seem to go down well.
Natural Instinct do ice-cream tubs full of raw minced turkey, chicken and tripe and Prize Choice do frozen blocks of rabbit, fish, chicken, lamb, beef, tripe, neither of those are tins or trays but I would consider them the best of the bunch.
 
My friend breeds Top GSD's and she feeds a total raw diet, chicken, tripe, fish, lamb, beef... I have toyed with the idea but I wasn't sure if my little fella would take to a raw diet having been fed wet food for the last 5 years, and I didn't want to go upsetting his system...
 
Cool, what is her kennel name? PM if you prefer :)

The chicken mince I feed is exactly that - it's chickens (plucked obviously) put through a mincer..you can't get more natural than that!

The Natural Instinct stuff is a nice alternative (and you can re-use the tubs :p)
 
CaveCanem said:
Cool, what is her kennel name? PM if you prefer :)

The chicken mince I feed is exactly that - it's chickens (plucked obviously) put through a mincer..you can't get more natural than that!

The Natural Instinct stuff is a nice alternative (and you can re-use the tubs :p)
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Tub's are always handy to have hee hee...

Her kennel name is Marinita, if you just google Marinita, her website comes up :)
 
Applaws - we've started using it at work now too (vets) or we use naturediet.

Have you thought about feeding your dog twice a day as one meal a day is a long time to go between meals xx
 
Supertrooper said:
Applaws - we've started using it at work now too (vets) or we use naturediet.

Have you thought about feeding your dog twice a day as one meal a day is a long time to go between meals xx
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I have always fed him just once a day... apart from when he was a puppy and he was on 3 small meals per day (he is now 5). I guess I have always been worried about over feeding him and him putting weight on. My mums Westie is rather portly, so she took her to the vets and got some guidence on a balance diet for her... the vet suggested that she should feed her 400g per day, which is double what she is already on!!

Lucy, my mums westie grandually put on quite a bit of weight over a 6 month period, my mum broke her knee in 3 places so was out of action for a while, and Lucy was very reluctant to leave her side, even though it's my dad who does the dog walking in their house... My dad was having to almost drag her out for her walks every day. So she ended up quite fat which resulted in a problem with her hip :(

Thankfully my mum stuck to her 200g per day rather than increasing it to 400g suggested by vet, but she has split the meal in two and knocked the treats on the head. Lucy has lost 1.5kg and is like a different dog, charging around all over the place, loads of energy and loves her walks again :)
 
whisp&willow said:
ive stopped using tinned dog food, and use a tin of sardines/pilchards instead to mix with Betty's dry.

obviously this wouldn't work for you feeding solely wet, but it might make a nice change a couple of times a week. ;)
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I think Mickey would really enjoy that, he loves fish... even the smell of the tuna tin opening makes his mouth water lol
 
lea840 said:
My friend breeds Top GSD's and she feeds a total raw diet, chicken, tripe, fish, lamb, beef... I have toyed with the idea but I wasn't sure if my little fella would take to a raw diet having been fed wet food for the last 5 years, and I didn't want to go upsetting his system...
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I switched my big dog aged 7. He's fine, just refuses raw offal.:)

This is a handy guide: red is rubbish, green is good.
http://www.petforums.co.uk/dog-health-nutrition/194976-wet-dog-food-index.html
 
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Hi, I feed my 6 month B/collie Nature Diet which he loves and hasn't had an upset stomach since swapping to it - doesnt agree tho with my purse :rolleyes: but I buy online now which saves some pennies.

I did want to go "raw" but I personally too squeamish so Nature Diet is the nearest I can go...
 
I gave up on manufactured dog food. My dog has countless allergies/intolerances, and I was spending a lot of time reading the small print on labels to see if that particular product contained anything that would trigger my dog's allergies.
I didn't want to go raw after my vet telling me that although the bacteria (salmonella, e.coli etc) won't affect the dog, they can still shed it. My 72yo Mum is diabetic, I can't take the risk of Mum potentially catching salmonella/e.coli from the dog, so raw isn't an option.
I feed my dog on Burns High Oats, but because she bolts dry food and chokes on it, I have to add some "wet" food. She won't eat it if I just moisten it with water.
I now buy chicken, beef or fish, and cook a batch with some vegetables. I freeze it in portions.
She gets 75g Burns with 100g home cooked meat + veg for her main meal, plus a few hypoallergenic biscuits/treats per day. Her total daily food intake is 200g, she is a Staffie, 8yo, and is a bit on the chubby side. (She can't go near crops, long grass, sheep or anywhere sheep have grazed without breaking out in a rash and itching for weeks, so exercise is a bit limited living in a rural village.) We do a lot of training/ mental stimulation indoors, and short walks around the village. When we do go for longer walks, I have to bath her as soon as we get home and give her antihistamine, otherwise she spends the next few days constantly scratching and chewing her paws and tail. I don't have a car so can't take her to places like the beach, where she can enjoy a run offlead without itching for weeks afterwards.
 
Having fed both ways I can tell you that there has been no commercial dog food in my house for 14 years! The best most natural food for a dog is raw meat and bones from human grade sources, that way no more risk of salmonella than preparing your Sunday lunch or indeed eating unwashed cucumbers!!!!!

All food, human, dog everything carries a risk of nastys but we deal with it by keeping up our hygiene standards which we should do anyway, as for dogs shedding salmonella so does everything else and how many people eat off garden furniture that has had garden birds S**t all over it at some point, and your dog doesn't do that does it, yet that is the latest retort to raw feeding since the old cliché they will die eating bones has faded to obscurity!

The next best thing to a raw diet is cooked food of a human grade, but why cook it if your dogs system has evolved over millions of years to eat raw meat? Not only that but it has evolved to go a long time between meals naturally, so get up run hunt gorge yourself, throw some up for the pups then sleep it off till you get hungry again!

There is then a long long gap to commercial food. There is no real control over the quality of anything that goes into pet food, and you don't hear of people living near the Ginsters factory complaining of the smell of cooking off meat do you?

It is only in the past 40-50 years of the pet food industry telling us we should feed fido more grain than a horse several times a day that everyone wants to feed their dog 3 square meals in a day! It is very convenient for the manufacturer to add much more grain and veg content as it is cheaper so more profit for them, it also stabilises better so has a longer shelf life. Dogs are not humans their fibre is not grains or even plants it's bone hair feathers etc, their truly natural food is protein rich and as anyone who has ever done Atkins will tell you it fills you up!

If you are going commercial top end it will cost and the content may be better, me I can feed 2 dogs on £10 a month! But if you go that route do read the labels very carefully as they are very cute. Don't forget that analysis material is not worth the label it is written on, shoe leather ash from a fire and dirty engine oil can have the same figures!
Particularly watch the grain/rice content they list them all separately now as they want you to think it is high in meat, add the grains together and you will get the true story! Watch the additives too, especially with tinned meat, it is produced in huge vats and overcooked so in some cases the vits and minerals are added after cooking and some are synthetic. The stabalisers and colours added because it looks grey can be cancer causing and banned for use in human food to! The meat can be any grade and does not have to be fit for human consumption, so of course once again it is cheap! Good luck on your search!
 
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