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Best food choice for my collie pup?
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23-10-2014 2:08pm#1
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Hi Shahabear,
I fed my cocker Burns for about 5 years and he did really well on it. I did substitute with a handful of all bran once per week (as it not very high in fibre), plus salmon oil a little each day and a tin of sardines once per week in oil.
I’ve moved him onto taste of the wild for the last 2 years and find it excellent… I feed him boiled chicken (or beef / salmon / turkey)with veg (carrots, swede, peas, broccoli etc. and luposan pellets and salmon oil) each morning and 90grams of taste of the wild each evenings and he’s the fittest and best has ever been if you can push to taste of the wild id def. give it a go!
best of luck
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my point is that through my experience of owning lots of dogs over my lifetime and feeding them on the regular dried food, it hasn't done any harm. they've all lived to their natural old age without any ailments. all happy, healthy, normal weight dogs with gleaming coats. i've had friends who have gone out and spent 60-80-90 euro on dry feed for their labs etc and ironically in a lot of cases, these dogs ended up at the vets a lot more frequently that mine have, including having to have cruciate and joint ops etc etc...
i understand people who have competition animals might want to feed expensive food for extra energy etc, but for the ordinary run of the mill dog owner i see no problem with the average cheaper dog food.
i hate it when people go on about feeding expensive dog food because this turns a lot of potential dog owners off and god knows, there are a lot of strays and rescues out there who could do with a good home, even if they only get fed cheap dog food!!
But you are being misled. It's not more expensive, because you feed much less of the "expensive" stuff to your dog than you would of the cheap stuff. Shadow would go through a cheap 15kg bag of food in about 2-3 weeks. His Taste of The Wild bag (same weight) lasted almost two months. Quality over quantity. It's a larger initial purchase but over time it is money saved. Unless you have personally fed your collies both kinds of food for a reasonable length of time, you can't claim that they are just as healthy as dogs who are fed better. Dogs on more expensive food do not statistically end up at the vets more often. Anecdotal evidence and all that
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Any chance you'd consider feeding raw, or just fresh cooked? I know starting out it seems like a lot more hassle, but I've found it honestly easier than dealing with the results of feeding kibble. For example, my mother refuses to change from kibble, and her dog, a saluki-cross just over a year old, that she has had since February, eats a good-quality grain-free brand, and still struggles with the fall-out from the giardiasis infestation that it took so long to sort, despite repeated vet treatments.
A friend of ours used raw feeding to sort that out in one of her rescues, and it only took a couple of months to have really good, solid poop, and no more excessive farting. Mum's dog still tends to have rather sloppy, green ones, that we have to hose the garden after we pick them up so the grandkids can play there, and they are still plagued with the stinky farts in the house, and especially in the car.
And once you get your system sorted out, I really don't find raw feeding that much hassle. We've even extended it to the cats, well half-and-half, with good kibble in the morning and raw in the evening, and I have to say it has made it much easier to live with indoor kitties
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Any chance you'd consider feeding raw, or just fresh cooked? I know starting out it seems like a lot more hassle, but I've found it honestly easier than dealing with the results of feeding kibble. For example, my mother refuses to change from kibble, and her dog, a saluki-cross just over a year old, that she has had since February, eats a good-quality grain-free brand, and still struggles with the fall-out from the giardiasis infestation that it took so long to sort, despite repeated vet treatments.
A friend of ours used raw feeding to sort that out in one of her rescues, and it only took a couple of months to have really good, solid poop, and no more excessive farting. Mum's dog still tends to have rather sloppy, green ones, that we have to hose the garden after we pick them up so the grandkids can play there, and they are still plagued with the stinky farts in the house, and especially in the car.
And once you get your system sorted out, I really don't find raw feeding that much hassle. We've even extended it to the cats, well half-and-half, with good kibble in the morning and raw in the evening, and I have to say it has made it much easier to live with indoor kitties
We did consider it honestly, our only issue is we have a tiny fridge-freezer that barely holds our own groceries week to week, as well as squeezing in 12 formula bottles for the baldy pup. Just wouldnt have the space to prep the raw feeds, but we are hoping to get our own bigger fridge eventually!0 -
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