advice please dog food,

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

i only use dry food for keeping my dogs teeth clean,raw red meat tripe or chicken,oily tinned fish does it for my three

 

 

Good for you my friend. Then may I humbly suggest ye take that dry shit Out of the equation? Only that stuff does Nothing to help clean a Dogs gnashers gleaming. It's the flesh and bone that does that

[whin 463]

feed mines on fish meat and some dried but when i had just meat they faired better in the winter when i work them pretty hard , go and rustle a few old ewes youll be doing the farmer a favour , mines love lamb etc luvly jubbly lol

[Simoman 110]

dried food with mince cany get much better.

 

I beg to differ Dry AND raw isn't a balanced diet and by ditching the dry it IS better. Raw cointains all the nutrients your dog requires and is more natural, grain which is a major component of commercial feed isn't natural to the dogs diet and has been linked to problems such as colitis and allergies.

[Guest little lurcher]

i feed a mix of raw and cooked meat and complete , i find it works for mine and im happy with how they perform and look

 

every person has their own ideals, i knew a dog that i was horrified to hear he was fed on the cheapest supermarket tin and iscuit and he looked bloody great with nice teeth too , but it was awful to say he did look so good , went right against the grain

 

i would say more fresh meat than any complete though

[rob the dog 0]

I have recently moved over to raw meat,bones,fruit and veg and the change in my dog is great less mess to clean up, firmer stools and drinking alot less.

 

i will never go back to dried food

[lamp+battery 98]

just a question. can you give a dog a fresh uncooked rabbit or will sum bones stick in dogs throat. i only cook my rabbits and strip them off the bone add to pasta rice and veg. i do use dry food but a 15kg bag would last me a good month and a half.

[Guest little lurcher]

freeze it for 3 weeks to kill worms then defrost and give raw

[lamp+battery 98]

thanks a lot mate happy hunting

[stormrider8 59]

Mine love the fresh caught mackeral, they even eat them straight from the sea when there still flappin around..

[undisputed 1,664]

hi all,

 

sorry if this seems a dumb question, but any advice on dry food, what is the best,

 

I own 2 lurchers,, they go out most nights just mooching for about 1-2 hours but get plenty of fast runs in.

 

currently feeding Kirkland signature, but seems to go through them some times?

also noticed heavy plaque on there teeth.

 

oh and while I am here,, feeding the swift 88 as a general conditioner, any thoughts?

 

cheers,

rob,

 

If your feeding solely dry food chudley's greyhound racer is good...or doctor johns chicken and rice mix is a cheaper alternative. The best is raw rabbit, fur and all dogs are great on flesh diet.

[bullmastiff 615]

just a question. can you give a dog a fresh uncooked rabbit or will sum bones stick in dogs throat. i only cook my rabbits and strip them off the bone add to pasta rice and veg. i do use dry food but a 15kg bag would last me a good month and a half.

 

Yes dogs can eat uncooked fresh rabbit - guts and all!, as Little Lurcher said you can either freeze it (not with the guts in though) or just worm your dogs more regularly and as for the rabbit, pasta, rice and veg - Bugger the dogs, they'd have to fight me for it first!

[lamp+battery 98]

thanks a lot for that. i normaly give them a few rabbit heads a week and they love it. the wife makes a sunday dinner every week for them feed better than me lol.

[rob the dog 0]

I think if we are all honest our dogs eat better than us

[black-spring 18]

Get them off the carcinogenic vet kill and onto a proper, flesh and bone diet. End of problem.

 

thank for all your advice,, have got them on to some real meat and bones at last,,seams to have cured the teeth straight away!

 

one just two more issues,,

 

1, my local village butcher only buys in boned meat!!! ha ha what luck,, (managed to get some bones else where)

2, now i have a deerhound cross who walks around with his dinner with no intention of eating it!!

 

will still feed dry as a base (australian sience) untill get the whole food and food storage sorted!

have also gone back to cod liver oil and swift 88 and pilchards,,

 

(now lets hope this will help them start catching there own food,,, !)

 

cheers all,