Food

artyboo
artyboo Forum Participant Posts: 457
edited November 2016 in Your Pets #1

I used to feed my dogs on foil wrap branded stuff & cooked liver but about 9 months ago someone suggested giving them raw mince (tripe/chicken/lamb/beef/fish). I tried it and I cannot recommend it enough. From 'fussy eaters' they now sit and wait for dinner.
It works out about 50p a meal for both of them, backed up with biccies in the bowl to graze on. Although the tripe is probably the most disgusting mince I have ever smelled, it is their favourite.

Anyone else had this revelation?

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  • Boff
    Boff Forum Participant Posts: 1,742
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    edited November 2016 #2

    Dr Johns silver about £8.50 for 15kg lasts about 3 weeks.  None of our animals have ever been fussy eaters, will not for long anyway. Laughing

  • Pippah45
    Pippah45 Forum Participant Posts: 2,452
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    edited November 2016 #3

    I have recently had a dog with an upset tum - at best she is a fussy eater but I bought a Lidl Chicken last week and she has been wolfing that down!  I am seriously considering changing to a "raw" diet.  Artyboo - are your dogs small ones - can't quite make
    out from the picture!  Mine is about 28 kgs of dog with a shocking first year of her life which included being very wormy - with the hookworms damaging her gut.  I know the vet would suggest their ridiculously expensive special food - so I didn't ask!  I think
    the recent tummy trouble may have been down to eating the putrid remains of rabbits she found before I did!  I am relieved she got better on the chicken as I was thinking it might be something far more serious.  If it hadn't been over the weekend we would
    have been to the vet - but fingers crossed.....

  • brue
    brue Forum Participant Posts: 21,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    edited November 2016 #4

    Our dogs had raw meat diets when they were young to build them up, we did have one dog who ate minced beef and nothing else. As dogs are borderline omnivores no doubt they really do like meat. Smile

  • artyboo
    artyboo Forum Participant Posts: 457
    edited November 2016 #5

    I have recently had a dog with an upset tum - at best she is a fussy eater but I bought a Lidl Chicken last week and she has been wolfing that down!  I am seriously considering changing to a "raw" diet.  Artyboo - are your dogs small ones - can't quite make
    out from the picture!  Mine is about 28 kgs of dog with a shocking first year of her life which included being very wormy - with the hookworms damaging her gut.  I know the vet would suggest their ridiculously expensive special food - so I didn't ask!  I think
    the recent tummy trouble may have been down to eating the putrid remains of rabbits she found before I did!  I am relieved she got better on the chicken as I was thinking it might be something far more serious.  If it hadn't been over the weekend we would
    have been to the vet - but fingers crossed.....

    Write your comments here...Hi Pippha, yes they are relatively small but, Fraggle, my little JRT, is not food driven at all. It was a struggle getting him to eat anything. Pnut puppy, on the other hand is a complete food tart and if it's good enough for him,
    it's good enough for me. Seriously worth trying I think, I will never go back to 'generic' wet dog food. I always leave a bowl of Bakers Denta Crunch down for them (yes yes I know they are full of E numbers), but I was recently given a free sample of 'Brigadier's
    Choice' (they have a website) which I left down for them to supplement their raw meat and they loved it. When I have run out of Bakers, I WILL be ordering the Brigadiers choice.

  • artyboo
    artyboo Forum Participant Posts: 457
    edited November 2016 #6

    Also, what I had never realised before; as long as it isn't cooked, dogs can eat any bones, including chicken so treats like chicken wings are a big hit.

  • Pippah45
    Pippah45 Forum Participant Posts: 2,452
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    edited November 2016 #7

    Any bones?  That's amazing!  If I leave anything out - the labrador would eat it - and I mean ANYTHING no other dog would get a look in!  I currently have a neighbour's dog staying which is used to "grazing" and has food down all the time - so she has to
    be offered food from time to time - away from my dogs - when I had her to stay for more than a week she got used to eating twice a day - it actually wouldn't do her any harm to miss out on a bit of food but my labrador doesn't need any extra at the moment! 

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