Feeding Tinned Food

[neil cooney 10,416]

If I forget to defrost meat or it just hasn't defrosted by food time they get it frozen ... It games them longer to eat but does them no harm ... In really hot weather I feed frozen bones daily ......

Mushers feed their dogs frozen meat / fish all the time and look at the amount of work their dogs are expected to do.

[Lenmcharristar 9,868]

I worked as a chef years back and took pretty much everything going spare for my dogs.

 

I took left overs .

 

Mainly went for cooked veg greens carrots etc not spuds.

 

Any meats from fat off a sirloin to half eaten fishes,chicken anything you could imagine.

 

Only concern of mine was salt..

 

I used to rinse the food but a lot would go be absorbed in cooking process..

 

Dogs were bouncing and it saved a fortune.

 

Now I go for barf and if I get caught short I woukd use a tin as a one off.. Mind a good ratch in Morrisons can often produce some decent meaty bones - offal - fish

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that coffee is one of my favs lol

[steve2507 522]

Some pups are like small children: picky. My pups won't eat their veg when they are young, but they all eat it up as they get older Try adding some tinned sardines to the dry to add flavour, or boiled, ground liver. Keep trying him with new and different things. It won't make him fussy, and will just encourage him to eat a bit more of all sorts of different stuff. Also, if the pup has just left its litter mates, the lack of competition can throw a pup right off its food. Being in a new place can do that too.

 

I take it he has been properly wormed with the right wormers? Not the crap from over the counter.

ye he been properly wormed the lad done a grand job with the litter just a picky pup that wouldn't eat properly for me and had me worried I'll start feeding him what the others get meat wise and see how he goes it's raw chicken on the menu tonight see who he does ?

[Lenmcharristar 9,868]

 

Why do they eat grass kingy

Either the dogs is lacking in nutritional needs or is trying to get more fibre in its diet. Or the no1 cause in my mind is trying to rid itself of intestinal worms. Wolfs don't skin rabbits or any other game. The fur of rabbits for instance acts like a brush to the inside internals of a dog and brushes out any worm eggs or any other parasites.us Humans can try to replicate that of nature by administering drugs. Ie tablets etc. but to no avail just try your best to copy nature as close as can be and you want go wrong.wolfs have been with us for 10s of thousands of years and are pure healthy specimens. It's quite simple just look at there diet.

 

bang on king, nature has the answers, look at the wild dogs of the world and theyre diet is top notch, try replicate it for our own

[roybo 2,873]

I feed raw ,but to be honest I think the owners get more out of it than the dogs.

most will thrive on most food ,the owners just feel they are doing their best by the dogs.

But I'd say most foods will get a dog 90% right it's that bit extra that they get from a balanced diet that makes the difference.

Regardless of how you feed and how much you pay,they have got to like what they eat to get enough to keep them healthy.

So if they won't eat top quality raw or dry ,tin dog food is as good as it gets for a skinny dog,if that's all they'll eat.

A change of habit in feeding can help a fussy eater,a mate had miNE while on holiday he came back eating anything after being a nightmare to feed

[steve2507 522]

 

Some pups are like small children: picky. My pups won't eat their veg when they are young, but they all eat it up as they get older Try adding some tinned sardines to the dry to add flavour, or boiled, ground liver. Keep trying him with new and different things. It won't make him fussy, and will just encourage him to eat a bit more of all sorts of different stuff. Also, if the pup has just left its litter mates, the lack of competition can throw a pup right off its food. Being in a new place can do that too.

 

I take it he has been properly wormed with the right wormers? Not the crap from over the counter.

ye he been properly wormed the lad done a grand job with the litter just a picky pup that wouldn't eat properly for me and had me worried I'll start feeding him what the others get meat wise and see how he goes it's raw chicken on the menu tonight see who he does ?

tucking into chicken on the bone ?

[torchey 1,328]

Aint you got a garden lol

[lurcherman 887 13,253]

Lol mrs do her nut if raw meet on the floor indoors

[Accip74 7,112]

I feed raw ,but to be honest I think the owners get more out of it than the dogs.

most will thrive on most food ,the owners just feel they are doing their best by the dogs.

But I'd say most foods will get a dog 90% right it's that bit extra that they get from a balanced diet that makes the difference.

Regardless of how you feed and how much you pay,they have got to like what they eat to get enough to keep them healthy.

So if they won't eat top quality raw or dry ,tin dog food is as good as it gets for a skinny dog,if that's all they'll eat.

A change of habit in feeding can help a fussy eater,a mate had miNE while on holiday he came back eating anything after being a nightmare to feed

That's a very good point, piece of mind plays a big part when feeding raw..........a decent dog will still perform on the cheapest shite kibble, I've seen it..........but I'm a convert now ;-)

[steve2507 522]

Aint you got a garden lol

full of slugs at the moment ?

[steve2507 522]

Lol mrs do her nut if raw meet on the floor indoors

shes the one who gave him it lol

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Lol mrs do her nut if raw meet on the floor indoors

You should buy her a mop.

 

They soon learn the crack. Dogs eat. They clean up. Repeat. ?

[lurcherman 887 13,253]

Young babys here lads

[Gaz_1989 9,539]

Young babys here lads

Bit of flesh good for their immune systems ?

[lurcherman 887 13,253]

Lol gaz