What's The Best Diet

[wendy]

After Finley bad experience with the injection I am really looking into all aspect of his care - what do people think is the best diet - I have been led to believe that Hills science plan is the best, however when I have been researching about injections I came across this statment from the canine care group

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]Commercial diets should be carefully chosen. Your companion is at the mercy of your good or poor judgment in selecting foods. Cats and dogs which have free access to the outside can to some degree supplement their diet. Otherwise, they are totally dependent on you. Science diets and Hill's dog and cat food products are not good diets. They use chemical preservatives that have been shown to cause problems in some animals, and they use by-products, which are words on the ingredient label that need to be avoided at all costs. This generally means food not utilized for human       consumption. If you feed a carefully selected commercial food, some supplementation with fresh food is necessary to maximize your companions' health. Raw poultry, beef, lamb, or rabbit and occasionally liver should be added to the diet at least three times per week, and fresh vegetables in small amounts should also be offered.[/I]

What do people think - I want the best diet for Finley, we would like to show him if we can, both our other dogs were fed on Wafcol.

Wendy

[PennyB]

Like you after a scare with Wilf I looked into diets and decided that Burns and Naturediet were the best so in the end all my pets now get Burns (including the mogs). Its also ethical as well (as some petfoods aren't)

[Silver Surfer (indiesnan)]

Yep its Burns and Nature Diet, for us too.    Well when i say us, i don't mean literaly.    

[Gilly]

I use Burns, naturediet & butchers trip mix    I also use the AMP natural frozne products, such as the raw tripe & the raw mince beef heres the website Prize Choice. You can buy them from Pets at Home in the frozen section. If you go to the burns website Burns they will tell you who your local retailer is as not everyone (including PAH) stock it.

[Sharon]

Burns here too    

[Birtles]

JWB here

[niv]

i use pedigree chum for pups and iams puppy dry food any coments of the food i use meaning good or bad?  

[Kim]

Well I am using Hills at the moment with raw tripe & all mine seem to be thriving    

[Gilly]

The raw tripe does go down a treat...if you've got a strong stomach      

[suki1964]

niv Posted on Sep 7 2004, 08:30 PM
 

i use pedigree chum for pups and iams puppy dry food any coments of the food i use meaning good or bad?   

Both brands are popular and are not "bad". The reason so many people on this forum go for naturediet/burns/jwb is that they dont have additives, colourents and E nos that "supermarket" brands tend to be full off.

I fed my last cocker on pedigree complete and it suited him - no problems whatsoever . I only changed brands with this pup because over the years Ive become very worried about whats been entering the food chain and the effects they have on us and if Im not prepared to eat these things it follows I dont feed my animals .

So for us its naturediet and JWB with the odd raw chicken wing to make things interesting

[Miss Poohs]

Hhhhhmmmm food for thought there. Vahri and Rufus are both on Hills. Vahri is on the light diet and Ruffy on the puppy version - have to say though Ruffy is often not nice to ne near!!!!

Might rething when restocking comes around.  

[Ollies Mummy]

I obviously seem to be the only one using Autarky - a dry complete natural food for working dogs...

They used to sell it in some Tesco's but now we get it from a local Animal Feeds place in 15kg bags.

Ollie seems to like it the best from the ones I've tried and doesn't give him an upset tummy and doesn't seem to be a "windy pops" no more!!

 

[bluesmum]

I use Nutro, I used to feed Blue on Autarky but as a fussy eater I found I was having to mix a bit of everything with it just to get him to eat!  but since changing to Nutro he is heartily eating and has even gained a little weight too    

[Cathy]

I feed Burns. I moved Jazz onto burns from approx 12 weeks old and haven't looked back since. He coat is shinny and she is FULL of energy.

She is a on the lean side, which they say is not unusal for Burns, but I wouldn't change of anything now.

Cathy

[Laura]

I feed Naturediet to my 2.  The chicken Naturediet has a higher percentage of chicken in it (60%)  than the majority of chicken nuggets we eat ourselves!!