Dog Peoples! What are you feeding the pooch?

DinoMikeSr

DinoMikeSr

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I buy what I think is a quality dog food. It’s not cheap it’s not expensive it’s not bottom shelf. I’d like a good food but I can’t do the 16 oz, $39,95 freeze dried raw stuff. 40 pounds of dry goes a little over 2 months and what I use is about $60 for a 40 pound bag.
 
Is this where you try to entrap one of us to admitting we have a Wood chipper in the back shed where we grind up Karens and Prestons to feed to our animals?


I don't have a dog right now, but from what I've been told.... that content to contain too much fat, too much fiber (from the stick up their ass), and often more than trace amounts of illicit drugs. :helper:
 
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When I adopted my dog the vet recommended several brands that made 'single protein' foods, based on the idea that white haired dogs and bully breeds (he's both) are prone to developing skin allergies because of food, and using a single protein food would make it easier to figure out what any allergies were to, and to pick a different food from the same maker with a different protein. She gave me a list of brands she liked which included zignature, taste of the wild, etc. I switched to diamond naturals 'skin and coat' version a while back (which I think is salmon based) because it was equally well liked by vets, and is cheaper than zignature, etc (and my energetic bozo goes through a 30lb bag in a month)
 
Our dog is a mixed breed but mostly Chow Chow, and we feed him Royal Canin satiety blend, because he is a chonker.



But we supplement it with steamed rice and chicken. :embarrassed:
 
I feed Canidae Grain Free Bison dry dog food. It’s expensive but my dogs are small so it isn’t a big cost. I know a guy who supplements his German shepherd’s expensive dry food with canned chicken breast that he gets in bulk at Costco.
 
I can’t remember what we feed our dogs other than it’s for large breeds. We’ve gone through a couple different brands, but I’m not super hung up on it. I had a cat that lived to be 22 and the only thing he ever ate was Meow Mix. He had no health issues until his last year.
 
jp_nyc said:
I feed Canidae Grain Free Bison dry dog food. It’s expensive but my dogs are small so it isn’t a big cost. I know a guy who supplements his German shepherd’s expensive dry food with canned chicken breast that he gets in bulk at Costco.
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Our dog gets chicken breast every day. :facepalm:
 
Good quality stuff that contains no grain. Currently we're on this: https://brit-petfood.com/fi/tuotteet/koirat/1002099-brit-care-dog-sustainable-sensitive

We used to give Kiira something else, but then they changed the recipe and she refused to eat it any longer. We mostly look at ingredients (no grain and other random filler crap etc) and whether it fucks up Kiira's stomach. A year of living in a shelter did not do her bowels any good, so quite some food really messes her up.
 
He’s always shed. Always. Gonna give this a shot.
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I’ve fed most of the top shelf stuff over the years…orijen, Acana,etc,etc,etc and I always rotated every few bags because no matter how good one is it might be lacking (or have too much) of what you dog needs. So it just makes sense to switch it up and none of my dogs ever had and stomach issues with doing so which is what the doctors and food companies will claim…

anyway Sonny got really picky a couple years ago so I just cook people food for him now. I use either chicken , beef, ground turkey or ground beef and occasionally salmon sometimes adding eggs and I mix in variety of veggies like green beans, carrots, sometimes peas, sweet potato , celery, broccoli and squash. Then I add either basmati rice or Quinoia....and now little Autumn decided she wants the same (was feeding her Nulo and Stella and Chewy
I cook enough for 2 to 3 days at a time

Basically my dogs wear the pants in the family :embarrassed:
 
oh yeah Sonny also demands a tablespoon of my yogurt and fruit smootie every morning as well and they both get a probiotic a few times a week....
 
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Orijen or Acana are worth looking into though I don't know where they would fall on the price spectrum, they are considered 'premium'. The companies both use the philosophy of what an animal would eat if it were in a wild setting you could say, so meats are the primary ingredients.
 
With 9 dogs, 40 pounds lasts about 8 days. That bag runs $60-$63 (unless I have a Pet Supplies Plus coupon), therefore it's Purina One with chicken.
 
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