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Re: eating habbits
The advice not to make a dog food switch all at once is spot on. They can get really sick with a complete switch all at once. Eww, your carpets could suffer too... One way to keep them from getting bored with a food is to feed a main staple for 50%, and mix it with something else that you change up. At the moment my staple food is mixed with Solid Gold Wolf King. The next bag in the cupboard is Evo Ancestral diet. What those foods have in common is they are grain free so the switching around and using a staple for 50% of the meal is Ok and nobody is getting bored! At the moment my dogs have the absolute best coats they've ever had too, which is great going into the heating season. The dryness can really do some damage to skin and coats. I attribute this to the grain free portion of their diet. The coats are all in show shiny condition.
Adding a little oil might make it tastier, little being the key word, otherwise loose stool could happen.
You can always try soaking the food too. I always soak my dogs food, and never feed it dry. Adding a portion of canned always makes it extra yummy especially if you add warm water and mix it up and soak it before serving. Yes, I said serving, lol..sometimes I feel like a doggie diner!
Anyway, for one dog even a 1/3 can added isn't so cost prohibitive and makes it tasty.
You do not want to feed just straight canned food. the protein content is usually around 8% and the canned is high water content.
Otherwise the broth idea is great..low sodium of course.
Actually...anything in the fridge is fair game too, and I often cook scrambled eggs, throw in the little bit of canned mixed with my 50 50 mixture and oh my, I has some happy 4 legged campers! And leftovers. I never feed them straight though, they might want that all the time so I mix the leftovers in the food that I soak and stir it all up into one big batch of goodies. Yep, veggies, you name it...they love it!
I once had a Doberman named Kaiser von Cupcake. He lived to age 14. You never saw that dog eat a tortilla chip that was plain. He'd look at you like you were nuts if you offered him one that way! IT HAD TO HAVE DIP!
The funny thing about Cupcake's longevity? I worked in an upscale supper club and brought home 5 gallon buckets full of prime rib, steak, gravy, rendered fat and all kinds of stuff we threw in there and I fed that 50%. Kaiser lived longer than any Doberman I know of and he was never overweight but I was observant of portion control.
And the <span style="font-weight: bold">number one dog food feeding tip</span> I can offer is to stay away from the grocery store varieties. Cheap ingredients (ie: imported grains) are laced with rat poisons (the grains), which is what makes having a surgical procedure risky at times. The rat poisons in the imported grains will cause animals to bleed out during and after surgeries.
The Rachael Ray food mentioned is GOOD. The only other grocery store variety food that I know of that is any good at all is Purina ONE. It happens to be a good one, but shy away from the other Purina brands. Diamond makes a wonderful staple food which is what I use for my 50% staple and that is Diamond Natural Chicken & Rice. I'm not saying the other Diamond brand such as Diamond Maintenance is good, just the Natural. Diamond foods also makes the Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul brand and that is probably the best bang for the buck on the shelves for the premiums if you price per LB for what you get and that food is loaded with all kinds of good stuff and veggies too.
The advice not to make a dog food switch all at once is spot on. They can get really sick with a complete switch all at once. Eww, your carpets could suffer too... One way to keep them from getting bored with a food is to feed a main staple for 50%, and mix it with something else that you change up. At the moment my staple food is mixed with Solid Gold Wolf King. The next bag in the cupboard is Evo Ancestral diet. What those foods have in common is they are grain free so the switching around and using a staple for 50% of the meal is Ok and nobody is getting bored! At the moment my dogs have the absolute best coats they've ever had too, which is great going into the heating season. The dryness can really do some damage to skin and coats. I attribute this to the grain free portion of their diet. The coats are all in show shiny condition.
Adding a little oil might make it tastier, little being the key word, otherwise loose stool could happen.
You can always try soaking the food too. I always soak my dogs food, and never feed it dry. Adding a portion of canned always makes it extra yummy especially if you add warm water and mix it up and soak it before serving. Yes, I said serving, lol..sometimes I feel like a doggie diner!
Anyway, for one dog even a 1/3 can added isn't so cost prohibitive and makes it tasty.You do not want to feed just straight canned food. the protein content is usually around 8% and the canned is high water content.
Otherwise the broth idea is great..low sodium of course.
Actually...anything in the fridge is fair game too, and I often cook scrambled eggs, throw in the little bit of canned mixed with my 50 50 mixture and oh my, I has some happy 4 legged campers! And leftovers. I never feed them straight though, they might want that all the time so I mix the leftovers in the food that I soak and stir it all up into one big batch of goodies. Yep, veggies, you name it...they love it!
I once had a Doberman named Kaiser von Cupcake. He lived to age 14. You never saw that dog eat a tortilla chip that was plain. He'd look at you like you were nuts if you offered him one that way! IT HAD TO HAVE DIP!
The funny thing about Cupcake's longevity? I worked in an upscale supper club and brought home 5 gallon buckets full of prime rib, steak, gravy, rendered fat and all kinds of stuff we threw in there and I fed that 50%. Kaiser lived longer than any Doberman I know of and he was never overweight but I was observant of portion control.
And the <span style="font-weight: bold">number one dog food feeding tip</span> I can offer is to stay away from the grocery store varieties. Cheap ingredients (ie: imported grains) are laced with rat poisons (the grains), which is what makes having a surgical procedure risky at times. The rat poisons in the imported grains will cause animals to bleed out during and after surgeries.
The Rachael Ray food mentioned is GOOD. The only other grocery store variety food that I know of that is any good at all is Purina ONE. It happens to be a good one, but shy away from the other Purina brands. Diamond makes a wonderful staple food which is what I use for my 50% staple and that is Diamond Natural Chicken & Rice. I'm not saying the other Diamond brand such as Diamond Maintenance is good, just the Natural. Diamond foods also makes the Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul brand and that is probably the best bang for the buck on the shelves for the premiums if you price per LB for what you get and that food is loaded with all kinds of good stuff and veggies too.
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