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Best wet food? Dog with sensitive stomach

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JulietBravoJuliet · 06/07/2014 18:56

Big dog is not food orientated in the slightest, and is slightly underweight. She's usually fed on Fish 4 Dogs or Purizon. At the minute, I'm having to feed her 3 times a day as she's on medication which requires this, so I'm having to be creative with what I feed her to get her to eat it all up! She's been having sardines mainly, mixed in with her kibble, but it's a bloody expensive way of doing it, especially as the pup smells fish and suddenly doesn't want his dry food Hmm

I bought a tin of Lily's Kitchen from the Co-op earlier, which they have both wolfed down with kibble mixed in, but at £2.19 a tin, it's again not cheap. I noticed my local Poundstretcher is selling Naturediet for 99p for a 390g tub which seemed reasonable - is this a pretty good food? Big dog has issues with grain in dog food, so needs to be gentle on her stomach, but I've not got an endless vat of money to spend on mega-expensive stuff!

Planning on keeping up feeding part wet/part dry as she's eating much better and I think it will help her get a bit of weight on (currently a couple of kg under what she should be).

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CastilianHhhhidalgo · 06/07/2014 19:11

NatureDiet is good (does have rice in it though) but there seem to have been some issues recently with quality control.

Wainwrights wet trays (not the pouches or tins) are pretty good, they also do a grain free version now and it's a little cheaper than NatureDiet.

Zooplus sell some excellent European tinned foods very cheap. I've recently tried both Rocco Classic and Rinti, very impressed with both. They're just meat, no grains or other fillers. I use it as a topper for dry food and my lot go absolutely nuts for it, they love it.

GobblersKnob · 06/07/2014 19:15

Naturediet is good I have just started using it, I haven't had any problems with the packs though I know there were some in the past.

Much cheaper to get it from Gjwtitmuss though, works out at 75p a tray.

MrsVamos · 06/07/2014 19:15

Would also recommend Wainwrights or Symply.

JulietBravoJuliet · 06/07/2014 19:16

Yes I was just looking at Rocco on Zooplus and wondering if it was any good as it's a good price. Also been looking at the Markus Mühle cold pressed dry food as that looks pretty good.

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toboldlygo · 06/07/2014 19:47

I have also been impressed with some of the tinned stuff from Zooplus. Nature's Menu tins are cheaper than Lily's Kitchen but do contain rice. Fish4Dogs do a BOGOF offer on their salmon mousse pouches fairly frequently.

Probably a contentious offering but when we're away racing and mine need something palatable and easily digested I feed Butchers tripe mix tins - decent meat content, no additives and less than 70p a tin. Wouldn't use it as a sole diet but as a topping it's useful, tripe seems to agree with most dogs and it keeps weight on.

marne2 · 06/07/2014 19:53

The vet recommended chappie when my pup had colitis, I was a bit wary at feeding something that is considered ' a cheap dog food' but after trying 100 other things we gave it a go and it was great, his colitis cleared up almost straight away, I have now moved him back to dry food and all is ok, my other dog has wainwrights and natures choice ( depending on where I go shopping ).

JulietBravoJuliet · 06/07/2014 20:24

Yes, vet recommended Chappie to me once before for a stomach upset, and she was ok on it, but O.M.G. the poo!!! There was mountains of it compared to what I'm used to Grin

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