What do you feed your cocker?

[Jude]

I feed my two on tinned meat. Occassionally they get scrambled egg.   Other times I give them chicken and rice just to vary their diet.  As they have a tendancy to put on weight I have cut down on biscuits with their meal.  Both are not that bothered by food - which is unusual for cockers isn't it?                    

[Averil]

Barney our nearly 9 week old puppy is still on the same food the breeder gave to him. He has four small meals a day that consist of 1/3 of a mug of purina puppy food and 2 - 3 good sized teaspoonfuls of pedigree puppy lamb and rice or chicken and rice; but since we have had him (nearly a week) he has had quite soft poos and now and again very runny messes! Is this OK?
I'm not sure if he is getting too much wet food or whether its because he is sneaking of now and again when I have taken my eye of him for a second and has eaten some grass and leaves of plants.                    

[*Jay*]

If Barney is on exactly the same food that he was weaned on, it is unlikely that the food is causing his soft poos. If you introduced him to the moist food, you could decrease the amount that you are giving him(giving him more of the dry to compensate) and gradually increase it over the space of a week if he seems to be okay. It is common for pups to be quite loose when they go to their new home, so it could just be that but if he's anything like mine it is prob due to the fact that he's eating things he shouldn't As long as he's drinking and is bright and bubbly, I wouldn't be overly concerned but if it perseveres, you could take him to the vet for a check-up.                    

[Averil]

Thanks Gill, Barney has been on the dry food and the tinned food since coming from the breeder, I have not introduced any new food to him so I think you could be right about the soft poos being something to do with eating things he shouldn't. Today he has only been in the garden to do poos and wees only and not too play (due to the rain, cause' he doesn't like it!!) and touch wood his poos have not been so soft and runny  .
What a lovely topic of conversation                      

[Tess]

Tess eats Beta puppy food. at least I think it is, it comes in a plain plastic bag from my local'sell everything' shop. I live in the country. She wolfs it down. I have just upped her to two handfuls a feed, 3 times a day, she is 12 weeks old Sunday and has her final jabs monday, thank goodness.                    

[angelad]

We feed Cooper on Chudleys Original complete and he loves it. We tried a lot of diferent foods before we settled on this one. He loves it, I just put water on it about 1/2 hour before giving it to him.                    

[LouiseH]

We are all on NUTRO here! Recently converted and loving it.
Nice shiny coats and healthy dogs. Also no hyperactivity in my very excitable boy which is great :-) I put that down to colourings and addititves, which of course are not found in NUTRO. Sorry, theres no going back for us  

www.nutro.co.uk                    

[Pammy]

Ditto - we're a Nutro family;) supplemented with something nnice to add a bit of taste, chicken fat, raw beaten egg, cooked lamb and veg etc etc - but primarily Nutro.

Pam n the brady bunch!                    

[bobby]

Hi
I'd like to change Bailey and Tia over to Nutro but can't find anyone that sells it.
 is there a web site that sells it?

Claire                    

[Jane S]

Hi Claire

Have a look at http://www.nutro.co.uk It gives the free phone number which you can ring & order your Nutro direct from the company. They are generally very efficient & deliver within days of you placing your order.

Jane                    

[LouiseH]

The cheeper way to obtain is directly via nutro and they can take credit/debit card payments over the phone or a cheque in the post. But you can order it from

www.animalinstinct.co.uk and www.bluepet.co.uk