What kind of diet does your dog have?

[GinaB]

After all the posts about diet and food stuffs, what kind of diet does your dog have and what exercise does it receive? Also, do they have any specific dietary requirements?

The Beast is fed dry food. She gets Burns dog food. She isn't allowed too much protein. She occassionally get tidbits, but not on a regular basis and these are specifically for dogs. She sometimes gets food scarps (meat) and weak gracy on her food just so that it isn't always so dry.

She gets walked everyday and is out a lot longer at weekends and normally she is let off the lead at the weekends so can have big long runs.

 

[prose]

Fresh food made by local holistic pet store, containing organic turkey breast, zucchini, broccoli, squash, flax, ground eggshell, and various other supplements. Treats are fruit/veg, yoghurt, or Dr Goldstein's Health Nuggets .

Gets to run around every day--either after her ball or with other dogs--as well as slower leash walks. We also do agility once a week, and get up to the mountains/beach regularly. On an average day, gets two hours of exercise, more at weekends.

 

[severnmiles]

Mine are fed raw (as you all know

), lactating bitches are supplmented with dried dog food (Royal Canin). I also feed fish now and again, they love fish heads.

Walked twice a week and free time outside every day for between an hour and two. Inuits sleep alot though.

 

[ihatework]

My dog is cheap

He gets pretty much the cheapest complete biscuits money can buy (Wagg) twice a day and also has a quarter of a packet of minced meat in each feed (rabbit/beef/lamb/chicken&liver)
Exercised twice a day for 20-30 mins plus plays a lot with friends dog at stables.
Also either goes beating or to agility once a week.
He is a castrated lab and one of the only ones I see that is actually not fat!

 

[Wishful]

6 month old 20kg yellow (fox red) lab! Working bred but looks like he's going to be big, given size of paws and tail and growing room in skin gets:

Royal Canin Maxi Junior (2 meals a day, as per suggestion on bag). Occasionally gets some left over cooked meat/sausage as part of training - either for not begging all meal time, or to teach things like sit, lie down etc.

Also, he's depressingly obsessed about poo from large ruminants, so will manage to snatch the odd bite when off lead. Grr!

Walked for about an hour a day, occasionally less if he seems tired.

 

[honeymum]

Ellie my 7 year old JRT is fed on Nutrience dry food, most days she will also get a small bowl of lightly cooked veggies with watery gravy. If we are having chicken she also has some of this in her veg. She gets 2 hour long walks per week, cos I work full time and 20-30 mins playing ball, chase etc in the garden every day with my partner.

 

[kibob]

Mine is fed on burns too (twice a day), gets the odd doggie treat and sometimes leftover meat from our meals in his tea.

He gets an off lead run in the morning for about 40 mins, in our fields, he turns into Forrest Gump and just runs and runs. This is longer on the weekends - maybe an hour. He often gets a mid-day walk too, but this is on the lead, again about 20 mins.

In the evenings, probably about a 15min walk on the lead and a mooch around the yard whilst I am doing the neddies.

If it is pouring with rain, you can't shift him for love nor money

 

[sloulou]

You all know what I feed mine too

he gets a combination of BARF and homecooked food.

so raw meat & meaty bones, teeth cleaning bones (eg. knuckles, raw fish and some cooked stuff on other days.

He is a black lab and is nearly 1 year old. He is also not a fat Lab

 

[severnmiles]

Ooo any pics, they are gorgeous!

 

[GinaB]

Yeah, I want to see piccies of fox red lab too! They are so beautiful!

 

[Wishful]

Will see what I can do! May be a while.

 

[GinaB]

You hunt that puppy down and don't report back til you get piccies!

 

[RLD]

Mine get walked off lead for at least an hour in the mornings. Throughout the day they get let into the garden for brief run around and play sessions.

They get fed one meal a day of Hills science dried food, usually with a little bit of chicken. They get titbits from me as rewards, and my family give them titbits as well. I found that on two meals a day they very rarely ate their breakfast so in the end I just cut it out.

 

[Enfys]

Ad lib dry food, whatever cat food they can steal from the barn, supplemented with whatever small furry things they catch in the fields that I have absolutely no control over. Rip (hound x whatever) often brings back deer parts/legs/heads/hides from wherever the nasty poachers leave it but he makes sure that he never comes close enough for me to confiscate anything and goes deaf on those occasions.
They have free run of the place all day, every day.

 

[severnmiles]

Enfys...read the top post re. cat food...

 

[Cyrus]

All three are fed on BARF and have occasional treats for training etc

All three are walked twice a day boys get 30 mins in the morning and another 30 mins at night 3 times a week they work in harness, running at least 3-4 miles at a steady pace

Loco gets 15 mins on lead walk in the morning and then 20 minutes off lead in the evening

 

[severnmiles]

Aww...we need more Loco pics...

 

[isabella]

my dally is 1yo and is feed on "burns" with a different meat mixed in every time twice a day ( was recomended so that hes not bouncing off the walls)

he gets walked for a hour or more and then about 30mins at night as it is getting dark in the woods now

 

[Enfys]

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Enfys...read the top post re. cat food...

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I am going blind! Can't see it. Going back for another look now.

Actually, when I said cat food, I meant it like any odd individual biscuits dropped. The cat bowls are all in an empty stable locked away from the dogs, does dog food harm cats? Half my cats prefer the dog biscuits!

 

[mcavity]

my deerhound pup is on 600grams of beta large breed puppy complete. she gets 2 long walks a day and goes out with the horses at the weekends??

 

[Starbucks]

Mine had bakers complete but Alf wouldn't eat it so I'm now mixing wet with mixer.

They have 2 or 3 walks a day and do lots of running!! Spend the rest of the day throwing each other around the living room!

They do have titbits I'm afraid.... mum came to walk them this afternoon and they had a packet of hoola-hoops, then they've just finished off our sirloin that we had for tea!

 

[Evadiva1514]

My boxer and weimaraner are fed on the Dodson and horrell chudleys range. They have access to the stable yard all day and get regular walks/runs around the field. They seem to love this stuff and it keeps my elderly weimeraner looking a nice weight. Our little Cairn terrier is fed on Cesar because she prefers meat.

 

[Foxyfilly]

Mine have chudley's for one meal, sardines etc for the other.

 

[whippet]

My Whippets have Burns for breakfast, a lunchtime snack of a biccy/carrot or occasional pig's/venison's ear or rawhide thingy, teatime meal is NatureDiet ready cooked meat with some cooked veggies. Once a week they get a tin of sardines each with pasta or potatoes, & veggies. I supplement all their evening meals with Dorwest Herbs' 'Keeper's Mix' and 'Easy Green'.
For training treats we use James Welbelove's Crackerjack minis.
They get free running on our land while we're outside, inside they love to sleeeeeeeep

, plus daily lead walks.

They're also theiving little buggers who will pinch anything else thats not nailed down.
Other favourites include horse feed, and rather disgustingly horse/sheep/goose/chicken/owl/rabbit poo

 

[sloulou]

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My Whippets have Burns for breakfast, a lunchtime snack of a biccy/carrot or occasional pig's/venison's ear or rawhide thingy, teatime meal is NatureDiet ready cooked meat with some cooked veggies. Once a week they get a tin of sardines each with pasta or potatoes, & veggies. I supplement all their evening meals with Dorwest Herbs' 'Keeper's Mix' and 'Easy Green'.
For training treats we use James Welbelove's Crackerjack minis.
They get free running on our land while we're outside, inside they love to sleeeeeeeep

, plus daily lead walks.

They're also theiving little buggers who will pinch anything else thats not nailed down.
Other favourites include horse feed, and rather disgustingly horse/sheep/goose/chicken/owl/rabbit poo

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apart from the poo....

that sounds like such a well thought out diet for your doggies - be they look really good on it

 

[whippet]

Ah, thanks WT! I think they look pretty good, lovely shiny coats & bright eyes, and they do love life bless them.

Do sometimes worry a bit about the poo! Wouldn't want them picking up traces of wormer etc in it (and whatever vacc the sheep have), but we do poo pick everyday, so I'm pretty sure the chances are minimal

Just read on the other thread about the bleach they use on rawhide treats, not that mine have them often, but still, hmmm

 

[sloulou]

I think you should put up some pics

rawhide thing not nice is it

but I give mine pigs ears (real ones only) lambs ears, venison ears or tripe sticks from time to time - they are all ok.

 

[Halfpass]

Benji 2 year old black lab gets nature diet am and pm with either mixer biscuit a slice of toast or some cereal or crackeers crumbled on top. Treat wise and for lunch he gets either a carrot (if he is in the mood) or a couple of small biscuits ( natural type ones).
He is a very fussy dog (courtesy of being spoilt by his previous owners) and this is the best diet I can get him to eat!
He gets walked everyday to the field to get horses in twice per day and goes out for a long walk while I am riding 3 times per week ( mostly 2 hours +)

 

[whippet]

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I think you should put up some pics

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I will as soon as I've worked out how! And some of our ponies too. Bit of a computer dim wit though, so will have a dabble at it when I've got a bit more time over the weekend.
Would quite like to put some photos on a signature too....I expect I'll find some instructions somewhere on the board?!

Oh, and my Whippies have the idea that quail's on the menu this evening, OH has just come home with 6 babies needing a home

 

[CAYLA]

Davies/chappie/science plan....no tit bits...I dont do treats.....long lasting chewies when left alone for a few hours...i.e piggi ears.

They get to run freely twice a day in my horses field and walked at midnight when OH comes from night shift or when im off