What type of dog food do you use?

[TracyK]

Have just been astounded at the number of choices at Pets at Home!

Want to go down the dried dog food route - but which one?

Have a collie/spaniel cross - 2 yo with no special dietary needs.

We get Wagg. We have a staffie and a springer spaniel/staffie cross so loads of energy. We always try to get the one for working dogs as they have 2-3 hour walks and its great.

Royal Canin - we get it from the vets. Its the breed-specific one, I doubt it really makes any difference but its what the dog was used to when we got him so we stuck with it.

I saw the bags for working dogs - which mine is SUPPOSED to be - but then I thought - she's not really going to be working or too long a walk (me being a lazy cow!) So far - she's been getting half hour in the morning, hour in the afternoon and 10 mins at night.

Arden Grange, it's great but pricey.

Burns dry dog food.

DP's newfoundland cross eats homemade food (not as much effort as it sounds).

Usually either sardines in oil/reduced mince/any meat going cheap (the meat gets fried up a bit first), then mixed with oats, any leftovers (but not potatoes/onions/too much tomato), and warm water. If he ever gets commercial dogfood its Vitalin which is cheap and fairly unprocessed.

DP is of the opinion that a lot of commercial dogfood is processed gack and I have to say I am inclined to agree, especially with tinned stuff as you are paying for all the added water. His dog is looking pretty good on it, he's a 9yo newfie/alsatian/lab cross and really healthy, no hip or back problems and a gorgeous shiny coat.

Science Plan - from the vet

James Wellbeloved dry food. Keeps your dog flatulence-free!

Burns along with all our left overs

Burns. No farting, less and more solid poo.

James Wellbeloved dry food. (Supplemented by our leftovers.)

Definitely Burns or James Wellbeloved. Both have better quality ingredients than most dried foods and its true, you do get less poo and wind with them.

Of the two, Pets at Home tend to do more regular offers on Wellbeloved.

Autarky-Feed our 2 yr old terrier this

Go with the dry food-healthier and much cheaper imo.

barf (raw meat)- get prepacked portions delivered in bulk. Very healthy and very little poos which is even better.

pero for my black lab and everyone comments on how lovely her coat looks and what great shape she's in

My 2 yr old is now on Chappie complete, he used to be on Autarky (my old collie x who died at 15 was on it for years and did really well) but he went off it and he loves the chappie which isn't too expensive and is low fat. He was on royal canin for the first year of his life.
My puppy is on James wellbeloved, I can't believe its supposed to help with wind - he has awful wind, really eggy & stinks the whole room out and he's only tiny. I might try him on burns when hes older but i don't want to change his food when he's only tiny (he's 11 weeks).
Aaargh, he's just done one now - he's sleeping on my feet, arrgh!

another james wellbeloved here - he came with about a million kg of charnwood milling and when that was gone I switched to Hills and then to James Wellbeloved

he did well on each of those, have mainly made changes for my convenience/£££

(sometimes he gets bored with it and I jazz it up with pilchards or cheese or gravy or even just soak in a little hot water first)

ANother vote for Burns. Occasionally mix it with a drop of gravy.

lol at this

I have a old dog ..have tried loads of different foods,from expensive dried to cheapo tinned ,meat and the only ones that don't give her the runs are complete ones like iams.
Only problem is she hates them.Goes for days without eating..spits food all over the floor.

Best dried foods are meant to be Burns - and then James Wellbeloved after that

I feed my dog raw (barf)/ natural food, tho and he looks great on it - clean teeth too

we get cobbidog lamb and rice off our local pet delivery man ,its quite cheap ,about £18 for a massive sack and my dog does very well on it ,always getting lots of comments about how fit he looks ,shiny coat etc . Apparently its made at the same mill as james beloved and has exactely the same ingriediants ,it just doesnt have the expensive packaging ! like the dog cares

James Wellbeloved. For years now, very good imo.

Used to use Eukanuba until I found out it was made by Proctor and Gamble .

The idea of a company with one of the worst records for testing on animals hawking pet food turns my stomach sightly tbh.

They make Iams too.

Iams used to make my springer loopy. Too high in protein.