Ethical dog food??

[ruthmollymummy]

Just got a two year old collie, looking after her as a favour for bil. Is it possible to feed her a little better, cheaper and more ethically than tins etc?

I feed my dog on a complete dry food. I don't know if it is ethical exactly but it is made locally so doesn't have food miles. I would say that dry complete foods are better than tinned stuff, especially for such an active dog as a 2 year old collie.

Suma do a good vegetarian dry complete flaked dogfood called Wackidog which is pretty cheap. Costs about £8- £10 per month to feed our large husky/alsatian cross - a lot less for a collie I would think! Dog has remained healthy for 4 yrs on it, though we have recently been getting Happidog which is more expensive but a nugget sort of thing rather than flakes to give him a change.
We do a bulk order from Suma with friends once a month (you need to get a minimum order of £150-200 depending on where you live) so get it trade price. So I guess it would be a third more or something in the shops.

don't know how ethical it is but we feed our cat james wellbeloved cat food as we looked at the ingredients and it sounded like something we would want to eat.

they also do dog food

Hmm - wouldn't bother me at all - or dog come to think of it so long as he got regular meals - he'd probably be glad of the variety in fact. But worth checking I guess . . . Come to think of it I think dog regards stays with relatives as a bit like 5 star hotel holidays as they are mostly more enthusiastic meateaters than us and thus have better scraps