Recommend a complete food and slowfeeder bowl for a basset, pls?

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Can anyone suggest a good food for a basset?

We have recently taken one on and she is eating supermarket own canned meat and biscuits. She was also being fed pizza and chips / curry etc by he old owners. Obv we have stopped that bit!. She is 5.

She is permanently hungry (on a diet) and also produces LOT of poo. She gulps her food and I'm worried about bloat as we are not near a vet.

Can anyone suggest a good (not toooooooooo pricey) complete food and are the slowfeeder bowls useful , please?

I feed my bassets Burns, it's well known for not putting weight on. I think Chappie is the best of the canned foods, although it smells disgusting but vets do recommend it. Poor basset being fed pizza

Chappie do a dry diet too.

I tried one of the Kyjen Slo-Bowls (specifically this one) for one of my whippets and found it to actually be too effective. It took ages for him to get everything out of it and one a few occasions he decided it was too much like hard work and left some food.

He now eats from one of these and it's just enough to take the edge off how fast he can eat (in his case it's to stop his finishing his own food and then stealing everyone else's ).

I've also heard good things about the Green Feeder, though I've not used one myself.

This is a great site for researching dog foods, both dry and wet. I don't have bassets but I feed my lot a combination of Millie's Wolfheart dry food and Wainwrights grain free wet trays. I would highly recommend both and MWH are very good at advising which of their foods is most suitable for a particular dog.

I use the purple Kygen slo-bowl for my staffy/bully cross. She used to hover two packs of Natures Diet down in nano-seconds and still be after more food. With the Kygen it takes her a happy 20-30 minutes of savouring the same amount of food and using her brain to get at it resulting in a happier dog.

She will be producing a lot of poo because its poor quality food and she isn't needing all the fillers and crap it contains. My dogs are raw fed now but when they were on kibble they had Millie's Wolfheart or Lukullus.
I used a slow feeder when they were on kibble from Pets At Home, not sure which brand they are but its a green one with a circular pattern like a maze. Good Luck with your new doggie friend!

Look at Zooplus for good quality complete foods. I used to get Lukullus from there and it's was only £30 ish (this was few months ago so not sure of price now) for a bag which would last a month for both dogs.

Markus Muhle is another good food.

I feed my bassets on CSJ CP18 complete food (for less active/older dogs) - one is nearly 10, hence the 'older dog' food, and the other is 6, so he gets a bit more in his bowl. They both have some sardines, or probio yogurt, or chicken bits, or hardboiled egg on top, every so often for interest. CSJ is a working dog food, so no frills, VAT free, and good value, I think - my dog sitter who's a show breeder put me on to it, and her hounds are in amazingly good condition, and aren't even on the CP range. Over the years I've found my dogs seem to do better, digestively and behaviourly, on lower protein kibbles - I tried everything with the younger one, from Wafcol to Burns to Fish4Dogs to Skinners, and this has been the best.

The younger dog is a bit of a gobbler, so I put a couple of Kongs in his bowl to make it a bit harder for him to eat around.

Good luck with your new doggy friend! Bassets are so lovely to have around (if a bit stinky).

Oh THANK YOU all.

You have given me lots to look into!

She is just lovely but had had an awful diet I think as she was 38.5kilos when we got her.
4 months later and she is 32K but permanently ravenous poor old thing.

I would like to feed her a good quality complete food with a bit of chopped protein on for interest (great idea wildfig)

My budget is quite low so I'll look into the CSJ and the others and make a choice.

I will go for a slow feeder as she gulps frantically and I'm scared silly of bloat (miles from Vet).

She is stinky today, we went for a walk and she ate her own body weight in sheep poo when I wasn't looking. Bath night tonight!

Aw. Bassets have 'feed me' faces! But you can get it to work to your advantage: they're very food-motivated, so even though they're not the easiest dogs to train, the potential to win more food will focus her surprisingly quickly. Try teaching her a couple of easy tricks to 'earn' kibble (take it from her daily portion). Mine will give left and right paws, and will 'stay' and nudge my hand - if there's something in it for them.

If your budget is low, and you can't get hold of CSJ, Skinners Duck or Salmon and rice is a good cheapish food. Lidl do tins of sardines in tomato sauce for 39p, and I always have a few tins of Chappie in the cupboard in case of stomach upsets - it's good and bland.

I feel your pain with the sheep poo. Just wait until she discovers any foxes in your neighbourhood...

Ah, yes, fox poo.............