Dog food

[Old Dragon]

That site has most of the foods I've heard of, and a shed load that I didn't know about, but it doesn't seem to have any info on Earls. What are the ingredients and nutritional composition on the pack Mel?

There are quite a few decent foods to choose from and, as with fish food, it doesn't have to be the most expensive to be a healthy choice. Just avoid the really cheap junk that's full of crap ingredients and additives.

[johnsb00]

or the expensive crap stuff like i was feeding

[Old Dragon]

also found some good reports from pero sbt as its formulated for staffies i ordered a trial pack from there site
its a starting point in the search for the best

We would have to get two packs and mix them, SBT x GSD

The list of ingredients on that one reminded me, I forgot to mention the Yumove tablets she's been getting for the last year or so. The poor old dear forgets she's not a puppy any more, especially when she's tearing around dad's garden with his dog.

[johnsb00]

i may purchase some yumove for myself

[mel]

That site has most of the foods I've heard of, and a shed load that I didn't know about, but it doesn't seem to have any info on Earls. What are the ingredients and nutritional composition on the pack Mel?

There are quite a few decent foods to choose from and, as with fish food, it doesn't have to be the most expensive to be a healthy choice. Just avoid the really cheap junk that's full of crap ingredients and additives.

Here goes ..

meat and animal derivatives - turkey 4 % lamb 4% -, cereals , vegetable protein extracts , minerals , oils , fats , various sugars , derivatives of vegatable origin .

then the usual added vits and minerals

analytical constituents

protein ....7 %
crude oils and fats 4 %
crude fibres 0.5%
crude ash 3 %
moisture 81 %

Just typed it off the tin , what a farce i need reading glasses had to hold the tin at arms length to read it

No more info on the tin or online but at 33p a tin its to cheap to be good food ?
No problem changeing to a better brand if needs be but just asked and she has been on this for 2 years and its the one she likes before this is was "butchers" wet food in various varieties .

It also says on the tin a medium 10 kg - 20 kg dog 2 - 4 cans a day ?
Ellie is 16.5 kg (iirc) and gets ONE can a day with a brand mixer about a handful (not a complete food) and one egg and a carrot or 2 for breakfast and she is the proper weight for size age apparently .

Its Mrs Mels dog really not mine , i know that sounds awful and i love her to bits but dogs are not my thing but i would never see her short of attention or a walk if the rest of the family was too busy for her daily park runs .

If the food is deemed crap for long term health we will change it , no doubt i will be under fire for poking my nose in and somewhere , somehow it will cost me more ...lol..

[Old Dragon]

Here goes ..

meat and animal derivatives - turkey 4 % lamb 4% -, cereals , vegetable protein extracts , minerals , oils , fats , various sugars , derivatives of vegatable origin .

then the usual added vits and minerals

analytical constituents

protein ....7 %
crude oils and fats 4 %
crude fibres 0.5%
crude ash 3 %
moisture 81 %

I wouldn't want that to be Mistie's main diet but the Pedigree stuff she has half a tin of a day isn't much better, it's only for a bit of flavour though, we wouldn't feed her that exclusively.

Just typed it off the tin , what a farce i need reading glasses had to hold the tin at arms length to read it

I've had to use reading glasses for a couple of years now, my close-up kept getting further away until it was further than my arm could reach.

its the one she likes

Kids like burgers and ice cream, that nasty combination of fat & sugars that's so addictive but really unhealthy.

It also says on the tin a medium 10 kg - 20 kg dog 2 - 4 cans a day ?
Ellie is 16.5 kg (iirc) and gets ONE can a day with a brand mixer about a handful (not a complete food) and one egg and a carrot or 2 for breakfast and she is the proper weight for size age apparently .

I don't know how they get those figures, the tins and the Burns recommended amounts are ridiculous, if we followed them Mistie would be a barrel with legs. Even on much less than the recommended amounts her weight had gradually crept up over 6 years to 31kg so she's been on a diet and is now back to a healthier 27kg.

[CFC]

CHAPPIE is far and away the best of the cheaper foods. Even the vet agrees. Recommended for sensitive tummies.

Compare that Earle food to Nature diet Mel, Nature diet is 60% meat.....same with the others I mentioned.

[Feline]

I feed Google on Royal Canin Medium Adult. He's got a very sensitive digestive tract and gets diarrhoea really easily. The Royal Canin keeps his poo firm and also low quantity because most of what's in the food is digestible rather than waste. When I first got him he was on Hills puppy food, which I kept him on but just couldn't get his poo firm. the second I changed him to the Royal Canin it fixed the problem.

Because of my job I do have a lot of bias in what i think is good and bad in the dog food world, and I think you can read an awful lot of crap on the internet about it a lot of which is wrong. But the old saying 'you get what you pay for' to a certain extent is true, good quality ingredients and nice cuts of meat cost a lot so if a food is cheap you can be sure it's full of the rubbish not the best. Whatever you pick try to go for a food with nice oils added, they seem to make a genuine difference to skin and coat health and joints too.
Flippin eck I sound like a pet food advert

[CFC]

Firm poos for the win.

Before you have a dog, you can't imagine having a really serious, interesting adult conversation about poo.

[johnsb00]

I feed Google on Royal Canin Medium Adult. He's got a very sensitive digestive tract and gets diarrhoea really easily. The Royal Canin keeps his poo firm and also low quantity because most of what's in the food is digestible rather than waste. When I first got him he was on Hills puppy food, which I kept him on but just couldn't get his poo firm. the second I changed him to the Royal Canin it fixed the problem.

Because of my job I do have a lot of bias in what i think is good and bad in the dog food world, and I think you can read an awful lot of crap on the internet about it a lot of which is wrong. But the old saying 'you get what you pay for' to a certain extent is true, good quality ingredients and nice cuts of meat cost a lot so if a food is cheap you can be sure it's full of the rubbish not the best. Whatever you pick try to go for a food with nice oils added, they seem to make a genuine difference to skin and coat health and joints too.
Flippin eck I sound like a pet food advert

OK lara cards on the table
as a dog lover with a professional insight in to dietary needs of canines
what would you recommend for a 9 year old staffi with hyperactive tenancies (my diagnosis with no input from 't' vetanry)