Budget food

[stillstanding51]

Dr John’s Silver?
Anyone use it? How do you find it?
Asking for a friend who needs to cut back costs Plus dog could do with loosing a kg op two
Thanks

Look on the allaboutdogfood website they show you the nutritional value as a percentage and ingredients carbs, meat etc as a pie chart easy to compare the quality of most dog foods. the price per day they quote is always on the high side so don’t let that put you off.
you said the dog needed to lose weight I may have drawn the wrong implication but i read it as then it would be ok to feed a lesser quality food. You would be better feeding less of a higher quality so the dog gets fewer calories but still getting all its nutritional needs.

It is not great food but the Dr Johns Grain Free is a par to Wainwrights and similar but is more expensive than the silver and gold.

Dr Johns silver and gold are very carb heavy and not really great food. This food will not really help with weight loss.

What sort of budget can they afford?

Look at Chappies - wet and dry. Our vet suggests it for sorting upset stomachs when Hills is not a good fit.
I don’t currently use it but have in the past.

I feed one of mine on dr johns titanium.

Everything else flares his allergies but this for some reason. I’ve found it better than wainrights and skinners for mine. It wasn’t about cost for me rather it was recommended by a few others who had good results but it’s cheap and works really well.

Dogs are omnivores, feed what works for the individual. Meat content isn’t the be all and end all.

"Cheap" food is often made of fillers and can often work out more expensive in the long run. You'd be better off (generally speaking) buying a good quality food but feeding less of it.

Also worth considering that the long-term impact of a poor diet can be very expensive.

You can always bulk out meals with cheap veggies, fruit etc.

This. Dogs need protein not fillers so you need to feed more and then they put on weight.

For example my dog would need double this food compared to her normal high protein food. It would work out the same price.

Cheap food is largely a false economy.

One of my Skyes lived for seventeen years on DrJohn’s Silver. She’d had trouble growing a coat & another exhibitor recommended it, being lower in protein than th one she’d been on, her coat grew amazingly. She was also very healthy, only ever visiting a vet for boosters in all her life. One of the reasons it is cheaper than others is that it’s one of the “working dog foods” which aren’t subject to VAT.