Feeding Tinned Food

[skycat 6,173]

What would you suggest to a pup that won't eat anything but tinned food sky cat , I hate the mass produced rubbish but the pup I have here won't touch anything but ? My other 2 only eat raw and now and again they will get dry which is alpha feed

Have you tried feeding a quality dry food such as Iams or Purina? The more expensive dry foods are meat based, which means that meat is the main ingredient. Alpha is, I believe, cereal based. You can mix a bit of tinned food in to soaked dry food, which will give it the flavour the pup is used to. Then gradually reduce the amount of tinned food. How old is the pup anyway?

[peterhunter86 8,627]

 

What would you suggest to a pup that won't eat anything but tinned food sky cat , I hate the mass produced rubbish but the pup I have here won't touch anything but ? My other 2 only eat raw and now and again they will get dry which is alpha feed

 

Have you tried feeding a quality dry food such as Iams or Purina? The more expensive dry foods are meat based, which means that meat is the main ingredient. Alpha is, I believe, cereal based. You can mix a bit of tinned food in to soaked dry food, which will give it the flavour the pup is used to. Then gradually reduce the amount of tinned food. How old is the pup anyway?

 

 

Some of them top brands are as bad as the cheap ones royal cannin was putting feathers in and saying it was chicken

[steve2507 522]

 

 

What would you suggest to a pup that won't eat anything but tinned food sky cat , I hate the mass produced rubbish but the pup I have here won't touch anything but ? My other 2 only eat raw and now and again they will get dry which is alpha feed

Have you tried feeding a quality dry food such as Iams or Purina? The more expensive dry foods are meat based, which means that meat is the main ingredient. Alpha is, I believe, cereal based. You can mix a bit of tinned food in to soaked dry food, which will give it the flavour the pup is used to. Then gradually reduce the amount of tinned food. How old is the pup anyway?

the pup is 9 weeks there abouts ,he is heavy saluki based so I was expecting a picky pup

[tb25 4,627]

Aye mines a half x steve.looks well thin lol

[Chid 6,493]

Aye mines a half x steve.looks well thin lol

Thought your pup was a lurcher x lurcher .. So how can it be a half x ??

[steve2507 522]

Aye mines a half x steve.looks well thin lol

it looks awfull when they like that I love a fat pup . This pup is eating loads now but of tinned stuff which tells me it's not getting enough goodness out of the tin if he is hungry all the time I've started adding dry into it on the hope it will fill it up and he is eating the dry I would prefer him on raw

[gnipper 6,426]

Have you tried tripe?

[tb25 4,627]

Half lurcher mate

[mhopton 807]

Our lass will feed them egg boiled rice and other things like tinned mackerel with tomato sauce but not the stuff full of brine

[slipper 116]

I was feeding all sorts of stuff, loads of fish like mackerel sardines mashed up with brown bread or pasta

Or pigeon breasts which I cook with veg and beef gravy or lamb fat

Or minced lamb pork or chicken with pasta and cheap chicken wings and thighs from aldi

[dodger 2,754]

I remember we used to feed our pet mongrel dog on that butchers tripe tinned food or any other tinned food if they didn't have that in from the super market with a mixer biscuit when I was a kid n he used to go everywhere with us that dog on our little adventures n missions he was never in so must of done well on it..

 

My old man n his wife have always fed there collie on tinned food not sure which one mixed with pedigree mixer biscuit n that's always in good nic full of energy n a glossy coat but them collies can do well off most foods can't they..

 

Also remember as kids my mates parents used to get him vitalin for his lurcher the one that looks like rabbit food n also tinned meat from Kwick saves he used to soak the vitalin n mix it with the tinned food the dog loved it n did well on it to..

Edited September 5, 2015 by dodger

[Stud dog 632]

The problem you have is who ever started feeding the tinned food in first place

[neil cooney 10,416]

JMHO but you could go in to a lads yard and looking at his dogs know what he's feeding them.

IMO if someone thinks their dogs look just as good on tinned food as they do on raw then they should take a trip to Specsavers.

[J Darcy 5,871]

 

Aye mines a half x steve.looks well thin lol

it looks awfull when they like that I love a fat pup . This pup is eating loads now but of tinned stuff which tells me it's not getting enough goodness out of the tin if he is hungry all the time I've started adding dry into it on the hope it will fill it up and he is eating the dry I would prefer him on raw

 

You want to give it some raw rabbit/chicken/venison. It will eat that.

[nans pat 2,575]

them chicken wings in icelands good gear 900grams 2quid,packet of uncle bens rice boiled with them then poured over a drop of dry,this pup has a back like an ironing board with it,