what do you feed your staffy?

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I have a 2yr old female staff who ive only had 2 days.

planning to wean her from table scraps to raw feeding (natures menu)

was just curious as to what other staffies out there eat?

hoping a good diet will help her itchy/scrathy sking and sores :(

I had to treat her for fleas so maybe its due to them? her fur was filthy! the scabs are really thick making it hard to brush her properly because i keep catching them and then they bleed.

she chews at her lower back and top of back legs (where most sores are) and she has sore inverted nipples.

a friend of mine said that feeding raw to a SBT may give her the taste for blood??
i did read a thread about a staff turning food aggresive once put on raw?

thanks for your reply :)

Could also be her diet making her itchy, peppa gets awful scurf on anything but James well beloved sensitive food

Please please please don't listen to people who say a raw diet will cause your staffy to go around eating people because you have given them a taste of blood.
Mine eat the James well beloved food as well.

Have you seen the vet about the scabs/itching etc? They should be able to give you some advice.

A good diet may well help her issues - table scraps are very unlikely to meet a dog's nutritional requirements.

I feed my staff orijen dry and nature diet wet trays because I don't have the set up to store enough raw to make it practical or cost effective. She looks amazing compared to when we adopted her. Her coat is a completely different shade and much thicker now.

Tantrums is right - if you want to feed raw do, the taste for blood stuff is old wive's take nonsense (like lock jaw). The food aggression you heard about was probably possessiveness because he/she was enjoying their food got the first time! You can usually address it with appropriate training.

Im guessing a diet of people food, cheap dog food and being covered in fleas has contributed to her skin condition!

she has such bad flatulence too....

she will be seeing the vet next week, in the mean time im giving her a better diet to try and help.

ive been lurking in the dog house for a while and did read a thread about a scratchy dog (not sure of breed) where burns dog food helped?

another dog (a westie) got colitis on raw. I know each dog reacts differently to food and it will be trial and error. but just trying to see in general what most staff eat.

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She was fed scraps by previous owner.

she is on natures diet with a mixer and some free flow mince mixed in - will slowly make it more mince and wean over.

she has a very thin dull coat so looking forward for the day she shines :)

ive seen orijen come up a few times, may look at that next time im at the shop.

tbh she is still registered with the previous lady, who is entitled to PDSA so she has agreed to get her sorted before i register her as mine.

so the previous owner made the appointment for next week. why she hasnt been to get her seen sooner is beyond me!

Sounds like you've dramatically improved her diet already then. If she gets treated by the vet and good food she will shine!

Moving home is quite stressful even for a resilient dog though so the improvement might not be quick.

Funny actually but peppa isn't a farty dog at all. She does drop the odd one, but only every couPle of days. Old staff used to fart like hell though, made our eyes water, especially when he had escaped and followed bin men to the pub for lunch where they used to feed him pie and buy him half a guiness. Not daft that dog!

with any luck the better diet will make farty dog less painful on the nostrels

Yeah, he was ace, bin men used to bring him home to sleep it off and we came home from school to find him in his basket snoring with the window open and a foul smell wafting from his arse. My mother despaired :0)

Small children

Pantone behave! You know folk don't like it when we comment on the child eating habits of our staffs. ;0)

Dame pantone beat me to it!

Feeding Burns used to help DD2's arse. It also reduces, er, "output", so cleaning the garden was much easier.

That was "dear dog". I just realised DD is usually daughter.

Which proves I have sons.

haha i have a few small children i could spare if any one runs out

yea the out put at the moment aint that great! hope the new diet will make it an easier task.