What dog food brand do you buy?

starting off at 3% his body weight might be too much. i started at 2% and hardly have gone over 2.5% since. it's a big change so there's gonna be some growing pains. i get my chicken from heb also, the hill country brand. i think you're fine as long as it doesn't say enhanced.

 

I use to raise and show Maine Coon cats all over the US. The cats that were feed raw seem to be always healthier an were almost vet free.
I have a 9 lb miniature dachshund that eats raw and she so healthy she almost glows in the dark.
Been feeding raw for almost 50 years with good results.

 

I feed my dog Royal Canin German Shepherd food.
Its kind of expensive but worth it. Big dogs tend to have sensitive stomachs and my dog used to have diarrhea frequently but after switching to Royal Canin all that stopped. Also the food chunks are really big but just right for a big dog so he actually has to chew them slowly and can't just swallow them whole.

 

Dogs are not related to carnivores, they are carnivores. Dogs are a subspecies of wolf.

 

i got that too so that means it's okay!

there was some vomit in the room when i got home yesterday..just a small one. it wasn't that bad. i got it out of the carpet. we think it was the result of him swallowing the whole thing yesterday morning. so at dinner time, hubby held the chicken quarter to force Bo to chew everything up...no vomit during the night. Hubby held his food this morning so let's see if Bo throws up today. I know there will be some growing pains and we are fine with that...he just eats it back if he horks it up. good news! his poop was firm yesterday, yay!! i haven't checked his poop this morning...it was too dark. with every dog, it depends on how much to feed him...he is really skinny and we need to fatten him up and he gets runs/walks almost daily so that's why we decided to feed him at approx 2.5 % or 3% it is really hard to measure the food since our new food scale broke.

just gotta get through first two weeks!!

That's encouraging! Thanks for sharing.

 

So how is the new diet coming along?

 

I'm gonna buy my dog some Wellness, since they started selling it at Petsmart so it's easier to find consistently. Hopefully they like it.

 

seems like a big hassle prepping/feeding raw. am i wrong? it seems like you have to be more diligent about going to the store for ingredients, prepping them, etc. .

my dog that died from cancer was eating Blue Buffalo dog food for the last three or so years before she was diagnosed with cancer.

my hunch is that my dog got cancer not because of what she ate...but because of how much she ate over the years. she ate more than the dog i still have...who didn't have the same appetite. the cancer dog would finish off what the other dog did not in the way of canned moist food they got at dinner time. i didn't think much of it at the time but, now, i think it wasn't good for her. she always ate more over her life than the dog i still have. she was a little bit overweight in her senior years but a healthy, active dog all the way up to year 10...when the arthritis started showing up slowly.

i'm not about second-guessing how i raised my dogs. i'm at peace with how i raised my dogs, the love i gave them, and everything i did. the cancer dog lived 11 years 6 months and i still have the other dog at 12 years 1 month. these dogs are ridgebacks and i was always told live expectancy was 9 to 11 years old.

in the end, i just don't know how i could have expected more life from these dogs given how old they made it to. if i would have fed them raw food their whole lives, then i guess it's possible they might have lived longer. i guess that is something one can always ask in retrospect. but, who really knows?

having to do it all over again from puppyhood, i would probably be a little more conscious about what dog food i was feeding them. but, given how long my dogs have lived, i think i faired pretty well. granted, the cancer dog was not a great experience. but, old dogs get cancer for who knows what reasons? if we knew the reasons, then noone would get cancer in the first place.

so, good luck to you and your animals. feed them what you feel is best and what you can manage. i personally didn't obsess over what i was feeding my dogs as much as i fed them what i felt they liked (until around age 8 i switched them to Blue Buffalo out of some concern). they plowed through many different kinds of treats over the years as well. i don't really have any regrets. getting sick is a part of life unfortunately...especially when age grows. i'll never know why my one dog got cancer and the other turned out fine...both on the same exact diet. i tried to help my dog with cancer and it didn't work out. i feel bad about nothing. i gave two dogs full lives and they enriched my life in return.

the end.

 

actually its not that much more difficult than dry.
dump some raw chicken in the dog bowl = dumping a couple scoops of dry food.
my dog loved the raw food.

 

Blue wilderness or something.


Any food which doesn't have grain and fillers such as beet pulp

 

I feed my dog Nutro - Natural Choice "Small Bites Puppy".

She seems very healthy. Thanks for posting this, I might switch her to one that scores an A+.

 

Whatever is on sale

Petsmart Coupons - Good June 9-12

Pugs

 

Thanks for bumping this. We got an English mastiff puppy and I'm really focusing on good nutrition right now. I have the puppy on blue wilderness right now but that stuff is super pricey.

I'll read through the thread and post some questions later on. Thanks again.

 

Thanks, I was just about to head on over there.

 

n/m. i reread the last page. glad you made the switch.

 

This place recently opened in Cypress.

http://www.naturaldawgcuisine.com/

 

Because of allergies my dogs eat Natural Balance Duck and Potato.

That's all they eat. They eat the kibble for meals, they have Natural Balance biscuits for snacks that are duck and potato, as well as a sausage thing that is their high value treat, and is also duck and potato. They even have wet food that's duck and potato, but I don't use that.