What do you feed your dog?
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Sistema1927
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Little Rusty, our rescue from last summer, and now fully recovered from the heartworms that he had when we found him, really like the Sam' Club Member's Mark "Wild Caught Salmon & Pea Recipe".
It is cheaper than similar foods, and gets pretty good ratings on the dog food review sites.
It is cheaper than similar foods, and gets pretty good ratings on the dog food review sites.
Rammer Jammer
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I've seen dogs eat turds and carrion but never fruits or vegetables.
If it makes you feel better buying overpriced dog food go for it.
A 33 lb bag is about $66, or about 12.5 cents/oz. He gets fed 2x day, a total of 2.5 cups per day. Liquid weight would be 20 oz. I'm not sure what the dog food weighs per cup, but will use that as worst case 20 oz. The bag lasts more than a month, so I know the true weight is less than 20 oz per day.
20 oz works out to $2.50 per day, plus the occasional table scrap. The cheap dog food is 6.3 cents per oz. So we spend an extra 6.2 cents per oz/$1.24 per day on him. We don't begrudge that.
That has gotten us a 10 year old buddy who is happy, active (runs and swims), and has no health problems beyond a touch of arthritis in his hips.
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Don't have a dog.
Too much math!!!
That Stella & Chewies is the co. that we get the freeze-dried venison patties. I put half a tincture of 1000Mg CBD on one as it soaks right in...she loves them.
Our 14 1/2 year old German Shepherd Lily began developing water retention in her hind legs, some diarrhea, occasionally vomited...looked bad last Xmas. Vet wasn’t much help, was kind of counseling to put her down as she has bad arthritis. But she seemed happy, so I was determined to see what we could do. My research indicated she might have pancreatitis, from the decent but fatty dry food and table scraps we always treated her to on occasion.
I switched her to air fried sweet potatoes, carrots, a little regular potato, mixed with boiled and rinsed 80% lean hamburger meat and one egg. Twice daily. She recovered fully, still suffers from her rear quarters arthritis but does well on Novox and Tramadol. She may see 16
I switched her to air fried sweet potatoes, carrots, a little regular potato, mixed with boiled and rinsed 80% lean hamburger meat and one egg. Twice daily. She recovered fully, still suffers from her rear quarters arthritis but does well on Novox and Tramadol. She may see 16
wheelgun28
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Our current dogs eat Whole Earth Grain-free and Chicken-free recipe. One of them is allergic to grains. If she eats them she will get itchy and start chewing her fur. The same goes for any treats, always chicken and grain free. Our vet said it is very common for dogs to have an allergy to chicken and grain.
One of our old dogs had health issues including pancreatitis. We had to feed her a low to no fat diet. I would trim cook chicken twice a week. We would also add oatmeal and pumpkin along with some Royal Canin low-fat prescription diet can food. I used to say I made more chicken than the Colonel. In bad weather, I could make low-fat beef too, boiled ground, or sometimes very lean cuts from the store.
One of our old dogs had health issues including pancreatitis. We had to feed her a low to no fat diet. I would trim cook chicken twice a week. We would also add oatmeal and pumpkin along with some Royal Canin low-fat prescription diet can food. I used to say I made more chicken than the Colonel. In bad weather, I could make low-fat beef too, boiled ground, or sometimes very lean cuts from the store.
Buddy used to like scrambled eggs, bacon and toast, of course he was a 19 pound Shih Tzu.
I feed my lab "Diamond Naturals". I have heard very good reports on natural/raw foods but for me it's prohibitively expensive. I find it a bit strange that when we were all younger the dogs got table scraps or whatever and did fine but today we spend a fortune on specialized foods.
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We lost our 13 year old Golden Retriever on Sept. 20th. We mostly fed him a 50-50% mix of Costco Adult and Wilderness weight maintenance formula dog foods. He did very well on those and always seemed to gobble them down. The last few months when he stopped eating dog food (as he was failing) I'd BBQ him a steak almost every day. We also bought roasted chicken from Costco as these were the only two things left he would eat. When he stopped eating these, we knew it was a matter of a day or two.
