Yora dog food - insect based

[ArabellaScott]

Hello, all.

I've got a 9 week old pup and am currently feeding Yora dry food twice a day, and a meal of raw meat and a bit of veg at midday.

It seems to be nutritionally roughly the same as other dry dog foods - with a much, much lower CO2 footprint.

Has anyone had any experience with it? I'm delighted if I can successfully lower the environmental impact of the dog, but want to make sure she's getting a good diet, too.

Bump. I’m interested in this too!

Placemarking.... can I ask where you buy it, and is it wheat free? Ours has allergies but does appear to like insects when they're free range

If you want to reduce the impact, befriend a butcher. We feed our dogs for free on mostly food waste due to sell by dates etc. And the body parts that humans throw away such as lungs. Start by asking to buy bones and see where it takes you!

Great idea, whisky, thanks!

Jesus, I bought it online, mail delivery. Afair it uses more oats and potatoes then wheat, but I can check...I don't see wheat listed in ingredients but it doesn't say wheat free.

Oats and potatoes are just fillers, perhaps the food is a bit of a gimmick? Although insect protein is an interesting idea

There are some quite interesting comments on allaboutdogfood.com about Yora.

I fed it for a bit but couldn’t cope with the volume of poo. I swapped to canagan (Uk made so lower airmiles etc) and the volume has halved

As far as I can see, whisky, most dry foods have an amount of filler - often wheat. Yora's just using potatoes & oats. I could be wrong!

Thanks, Getitdone, I'll have a look.

Interesting, Puckymup - I don't really know what to compare it to as the pup's so new! There's a lot of poo, but she eats a lot.

Perhaps look for a food without fillers as they just cause extra poo! We raw feed meat, fish and some blended veg and have a very low poo output with low odour. To the point where you can leave one in your walking bag/coat pocket by mistake and not notice. You can't do that with kibble fed dogs lol

Is it a grain free food? If so look into recent concerns that grainfree kibbles May have a link to heart disease.

This is so interesting. My DM grew up with a family dog who lived outside in a kennel, was only allowed in the kitchen, he was toilet trained to go in one spot in the garden which DGM disinfected every day. The dog never had 'dog food' but lived off scraps. My DM is in her 70s now so we're talking late 1940s into the 50s. That ddog lived to 14, never saw a vet, was a mongrel and my DM still misses him. No fuss with food or anything but a very much loved pet.

Thanks, whisky and small steps and fairydust.

I know, food scraps would be grand, but we don't leave all that much!

I think I'm also a bit anxious about doing something terribly wrong and feeding it the wrong stuff - including feeding her too much or changing it too fast. Ive not had a dog since I was a child, but I know they ate absolutely everything. I should chill out a bit!

I will def try the butcher in the week, and maybe do 2 meals just real food - the dry food is especially handy for training, as that all seems to be largely food-based rewards- I can't fill my pockets with raw chicken.

My DM is in her 70s now so we're talking late 1940s into the 50s

Bare in mind that food in the 40’s and 50’s would have been much less processed and messed with than today’s food.