Pet foods!

[michika]

Since Diana sort of started on the topic when she introduced her adorable new adoptee, I figure we should continue on it.

I wanna hear about pet food. What do you feed and why? Raw, kibble, mix of both?

I feed kibble, because my dogs need to be on a low-protein diet. Low-protein here actually means low purines, however its sometimes difficult to figure out the purine content of a food, so the blank decision is to look for lower protein foods. I also feed my dogs veggies (carrots, tomatos, etc) as snacks, on top of eggs, wet food, snowballs (a well loved winter treat) and dog treats.

[Whatigot]

I feed kibble.
I have a 6 year old german short haired pointer.
I was using nutro (and nutro max cat for my kitties) and was extremely satisfied with it until I read that one of the major brands of pet food had bought them out and shortly thereafter, a bunch of animals died from eating their wet food (i wasn't feeding wet, but tha was too big of a breach of trust for me to continue using their product on things I would like to keep around for a while).
so now I am trying to find a good kibble to replace the nutro stuff...

I feed my cats orijen, and their coats look better than maxcat ever had em looking.

[EmilyB]

I feed Now!

http://www.petcurean.com/index.php?page_id=161

It was hard to find a lower protein, super-premium dog food. My vet told us to get off of the Wellness Core we were feeding, because he is a believer in the fact that too high a protein affects the liver, and indeed my dobes liver tests were elevated before she had surgery last fall.

My dobe will be considered a senior (7), and my GSD tends to just be too plump, so we chose the senior/weight management variety.

They get it mixed with a small amount of Deli-fresh dog food, and warm water.

A good link for things to avoid in dog food, and all kinds of other good information:

http://www.dogfoodproject.com/index....badingredients

[mseepman]

We feed our dog Eagle Pack Holistic select kibble. All Canadian content (no Chinese crap) and no or little corn filler. We have a miniature Schnauzer which have a tendancy to get fat easy. This food has kept him healthy and happy since we brought him home.

[michika]

I have two Dalmatians, one 100% pure, and the other is questionably pure...until Champion Foods, they make Orijin and Acana, changed their receipes, my dogs both loved them. Now we're bouncing between foods trying to find something that works. Its a huge PITA because my older dog is such a picky eater. We are feeding Go now, which is made by the same people Emily mentioned, although it isn't looking like its the right food for us, it creates a lot of mess, and my older dog now has stupid amounts of gas.

Thanks for the link Emily!

[workn2hard2day]

I have a Blk Lab & a Golden Ret. they both get ORIJEN 6 FRESH FISH with SEA VEGETABLES. I would like to put them on a raw food diet but I just can't get my head around how to do it. I know it would be about 350/mth, that part doesnt bug me so much, I just cant figure out all the portion correctly.

[michika]

I got some great instruction from my favorite pet place, however that was about 6 months ago, so I've pretty much forgotten it. My dogs thumbed their noses at raw food, and when they ate it, they had foul! breath.