When And How Often Do You Feed Your Dog?

[paulus 26]

This is all I get daily from a 50lbs dog ........

 

that's a shit picture

[socks 32,253]

[albert64 1,882]

 

which farm shop are you using nik

 

Nixons in Handforth/Heald Green

 

http://www.nixonsfarmshopcheshire.co.uk/

 

Was £5 for 5 Kg so I'm not sure if it's cheap or expensive but they're pretty trustworthy.

 

I think this is actually going to work out cheaper than the dry food as well

 

 

i use nixons aswell mate used them for years

the last 18mths mate his prices have been going up

his lamb breast/neck has gone expensive

but like to give mine a warm meal of lamb breast especially when they've just been worked

[Nik_B 3,790]

Yeh I think that's down to the sudden popularity of raw/barf diets amongst pet dog owners....I can count myself in category that to be fair.

 

I had a good chat with him yesterday, he was saying he'd had a call from a couple of vets who asked him to prepare the food a certain way and told him the proportions or muscle meat to offal to organs as they were getting a lot of requests from their customers.

 

I was using skinners which is a pretty cheap kibble but I think there is no way I'll spend close to the £26 per month that was costing me so it's all good and I'm pretty sure Nixons are a quality butcher, We've been going there for 25-30 years for our food.

 

Might have to try the raw diet on meself as well....maybe I'll look less like a bag of shyte lol

[RubyTex 1,957]

When feeding kibble they got a bowl between them left all day and another at night. Now they just get one meal (chicken, minced beef, veggies, brown bread, chicken carcasses etc) on an evening and that's it.

[Nik_B 3,790]

When feeding kibble they got a bowl between them left all day and another at night. Now they just get one meal (chicken, minced beef, veggies, brown bread, chicken carcasses etc) on an evening and that's it.

 

Yeh that's the thing I could leave a whole bowl out all day and he'd barely touch it.

 

It's my fault because I'd feel guilty and put our scraps in in the evening....pretty sure that is what he's waiting for.

 

At least I know now the food he gets is good so no excuses!

[beast 1,884]

i feed my dogs twice a day. they get an hours walk before work in the morning, and i leave them with bones to chew when they get home (i split them up just in case they scrap and once they are finished and ready for sleep the mrs runs them back into the main enclosure together again). i then take them out for at least an hour at night, and they get fed flesh etc when we get back. so they always exercise on an empty belly, and always fill up before they are supposed to settle down.

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

 

I know it sounds like a dumb question

 

I fed mine once a day and usually in the evening. I'd rather feed him twice a day but I found he wouldn't eat his kibble in the morning, sometimes he would pick at it so it got impossible to have a routine of two smaller meals a day.

 

I assume it's probably because he just doesn't like it. Now we're switching over to raw I'm going to try two meals a day again but I was wondering what everyone else does.

 

Last night I tried him on 1KG of minced beef with a smashed up egg and a chicken drumstick and he demolished it in a few seconds and then followed me round the whole evening so he obviously thought he'd been treated ha ha.

 

Cheers

 

Nick

 

2.2lbs of beef and drumsticks ??? How big is your fukcing dog ??? ... To answer the question I feed my dogs once a day last thing at night so that they have a nice full belly and digest their food overnight whilst sleeping .......

My 22kg bitch gets 2lb of mince a day plus turkey necks, pasta and veg.

 

My 25kg pup is 6 months old and gets double that, 4-5lb mince a day.

[RussBoy 77]

Does anyone find that feeding mince makes for less shit than feeding dry buscuit?

[STRANGER 948]

Wag once a week whether he needs it or not.