BOYS ON A BUDGET

[Guest jt750]

I'm sure cheap kibble is the future ...i mean they take the raw ingredients you BARF fanatics rave on about ... addd loads of indigestable corn and beet protein and boil it up ..chuck it through some mad machine to make it into pellets and dry it out ..its the future innit you know it

[iworkwhippets 12,640]

only the best for my dogs, WEBBOX

[3 Turns 326]

only the best for my dogs, WEBBOX

QUALITY LOL.

I/W/W HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO SPLIT THE DAILY 370 SAUSAGES LOL

[3 Turns 326]

CALM DOWN GIRL,S.

 

SHOULDVE CALLED THIS POST BOYS ON A GIRO.

 

SURELY ANY CHEAP MEAL IS BETTER THAN NONE.

[lofti 579]

CANT BEAT PEDIGREE CHUM MATE FROM LOCAL STORE EXPENSIVE BUT GIVES THE DOGS EVERYTHING IT NEEDS

Are you having a laugh?

:laugh: :laugh:

[coney clucky 93]

i feed mine tripe and mince plus owt else i can get me hands on that is ok brown bread eggs pasta sometimes have boil up and put in pasta eggs mince veggies and wait till cooled then add complete dog meal in when bunnies are a plenty them get boiled up aswell cant beat a good varrried diet

[#1poacher 8]

hi get yaself to tesco plenty of ranges of food

[dytkos 17,813]

Usually cooked turkey (poultry farm next door LOL), steamed carrots, cabbage, swede, use either Arkwrights or Dr. John complete as a mixer.

 

Weekly dose of organic cyder apple vinegar, cod liver oil, garlic, brewers yeast, eggs.

 

Missus gives 'em markies, gravy bones, pigs ears and tripe sticks as well

 

Cheers, D.

[B.P.R 2,798]

Everybody going on about how shite pedigree chum is. Is this the pedigree tinned meat? I've got the pup on pedigree dried food with a meat mixed as I had her on bakers but she wouldn't eat it. This would be good enough for her now? She gets mince aswell every now an then and sardines etc.

 

Also what's the score with meat and bones such as chicken wings? I always though chicken bones splinter when cooked. I feed the ferrets raw chicken wings but worried to risk it with the dogs

[TOMO 26,438]

yes feed the chicken raw

[DottyDoo 500]

Everybody going on about how shite pedigree chum is. Is this the pedigree tinned meat? I've got the pup on pedigree dried food with a meat mixed as I had her on bakers but she wouldn't eat it. This would be good enough for her now? She gets mince aswell every now an then and sardines etc.

 

Also what's the score with meat and bones such as chicken wings? I always though chicken bones splinter when cooked. I feed the ferrets raw chicken wings but worried to risk it with the dogs

 

 

bones are okay for dogs unless they are cooked....... raw bones are fine tho....

its only load bearing bones ye have to be carefull with when feeding to dogs

[skycat 6,173]

I've just read this thread with interest.............and sadness. It seems that some people feel proud to feed their dogs as cheaply as possible, and with little knowledge of what dogs really need to be healthy. But there again, when I was in my teens and twenties, I didn't have much idea about how to eat properly myself, let alone what a dog needs to stay healthy for a long working life.

 

The main problem with eating rubbish processed foods (talking humans here) is that for quite a few years you can do that without any ill effects. It's only as you get older that bad eating, (and drinking) habits start to take their toll on your body. The body can cope with a lot of junk food, but only for so long.

 

The same is true for any animal, and especially for working dogs which have a greater need for good quality food of a sort their bodies can really use: a lot of dogs can get by on wheat, soya, and beet pulp which can be found in cheap dog foods: read the ingredients on the side of the bag! But it won't do them much good in the long run.

 

And by the way, when it says 'meat by products' in the list of ingredients: that includes: chicken feathers, feet, beaks, skins. Figure it out: chickens (let's use chickens as an example as there are so many sent to slaughter every day in the UK) are killed: they are either plucked and gutted, feet and heads taken off, or they are portioned up and sold as breast, legs etc. So what happens to all the bits we humans don't eat? They get cooked, ground up and put into dog food, yep, feathers and all.

 

Now if a dog was to eat all those things as they naturally are, on the chicken, they'd form part of a relatively balanced meal, but they'd have to be raw to give a dog the maximum amount of nutrients. As it is, those by products are heat treated to mega high temperatures to kill of any nasty bacteria, of which there will be quite a lot by the time the stinking mess gets to the dog food factory. High temperatures kill a lot of vitamins and nutrients, so the factory have to put them back in artificially: man made vitamins, which ain't a patch on the real, fresh ones.

 

Now, even with all these meat by products, the food couldn't be sold as dog food: how the hell do you make a dried, cooked pile of feet, feathers and guts look attractive to the dog owner??? So they have to bulk it all out with a very cheap filler (let's not forget that the dog food market is a multi million pound business these days: a lot of people are getting very rich packaging the waste from human food products into pretty coloured shapes for dogs!)

 

Wheat is cheap, soya is cheap, beet pulp is even cheaper. That's the stuff which is left over after they have taken the sugar out of the beet for human use. Look at Wagg dog food ingredients:

 

Wheat, Meat Meal, Wheatfeed, Rice (min 4% in rice disc), Maize, Chicken Meat Meal (min 4% in brown chunk), Digest, Poultry Fat, Linseed, Beet Pulp, Peas (min 4% in pea kibble), Carrots (min 4% in carrot kibble), Lucerne, Minerals, Yeast (0.08%), Citrus Extract (0.04%) & Yucca Extract (0.01

 

Notice that it doesn't give you the percentages of Wheat, Wheatfeed, Digest (what the hell is digest???) Beet pulp: I wonder if they would tell you if you asked!

 

If you're still reading this: have a look at a sensible website which analyses exactly what each type of food on the bags of food really contains:

http://www.dog-nutri...e-dog-food.html

 

I'll leave it at that for the moment: but have a think about what a dog really needs to eat, and then ask yourselves why the dog food manufacturers are selling you feeds with all sorts of ingredients that have been so highly processed that the dog might as well be eating Pot Noodles!

[KittleRox 2,147]

Everybody going on about how shite pedigree chum is. Is this the pedigree tinned meat? I've got the pup on pedigree dried food with a meat mixed as I had her on bakers but she wouldn't eat it. This would be good enough for her now? She gets mince aswell every now an then and sardines etc.

 

Also what's the score with meat and bones such as chicken wings? I always though chicken bones splinter when cooked. I feed the ferrets raw chicken wings but worried to risk it with the dogs

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[KittleRox 2,147]

Quick question for Penny, are the more expensive dryfoods much better than the cheap ones ?

[B.P.R 2,798]

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