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What brand of dog food do you feed your pups?

joshua1970

joshua1970

I've gone through a variety over the eyars. settled on Canidae for years, but noticed some quality control issues a few years abck

found Orijen about a year or so ago and couldn't be happier.

grainless, high end food, My saint went from eating about 5 1/2 -6 cups of Canidae a day to about 3 cups of Orijen. and the mines in the minefield are 1/3 the size they used to be.

a link to their website to read about ingredients etc (not affiliated, aside from being a very happy customer):

http://www.orijen.ca/orijen/about/

I occassionaly give them a taste of my own meals, or some Merrick canned food (the grammy's pot pie and Wingdings are their favs) and some freeze ried liver cubes or dehydrated sweet potatoes as treats

so what's on your pups dinner plate?
 
Trouthunter

Trouthunter

3 year old Field Spaniel who was raised from the start on Camidae All Stages. Generally happy with it. Due to supply challenges recently I changed to Nutri Source chicken and rice formula. During the food transition phase - which also was a very hot and humid stretch of weeks here this year - she dumped / replaced major hair. I chose to stay with it for one (maybe 2) more bag(s) to see how it goes.

Might give the Orijen a thorough investigation - I am open since my reliable supply of Canidae was interrupted!
 
joshua1970

joshua1970

Trouthunter said:
3 year old Field Spaniel who was raised from the start on Camidae All Stages. Generally happy with it. Due to supply challenges recently I changed to Nutri Source chicken and rice formula. During the food transition phase - which also was a very hot and humid stretch of weeks here this year - she dumped / replaced major hair. I chose to stay with it for one (maybe 2) more bag(s) to see how it goes.

Might give the Orijen a thorough investigation - I am open since my reliable supply of Canidae was interrupted!
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HIGLY recommend it been using canidae since about 98-99... even had it shipped in when my local stores didn't get the premium food thang, and it was a much smaller company. I just noticed too many quality control issues. dogs getting runs, bags smelled different (like they went bad) HIGHLY recommend Orijen - it's pricy but the dogs eat 1/2 as much so it works out. :)

trouthunter eh? me too. tho I'm long overdue to wet a line.... want to catch a muskie on a fly. tied up some patterns and everything, jsut no luck yet.

demaro said:
I just started them On Taste of the Wild. Sometimes I give them Blue Buffalo.
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good foods!!!!! Merrick makes some really good wetfoods for special occasions :)
 
DSB

DSB

My dog is alergic to anything with beef or chicken. We've been very happy with California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato.
 
joshua1970

joshua1970

Nick Danger said:
I've fed my dog Wellness brand for most of her life. She's 14 now and doing just great. I highly recommend this brand. No wheat, corn or soy. Excellent ingredients. They have a grain-free version too, if that's important to you.

http://www.wellnesspetfood.com/recipes.aspx?pet=dog&ft=1

Nick
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wellness is good food - I've not gone teh grainless route until I switched to orijen, and I'm thrilled with it. so are the dogs!

DSB said:
My dog is alergic to anything with beef or chicken. We've been very happy with California Natural Herring and Sweet Potato.
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glad to hear it, my old GSD (RIP Richter) had very bad allergies, the only food she could eat was lamb/rice Avoderm... that was many years ago before the super premiums were available. tho she did fine with Canidae when I found it. part of me wishes canidae had their sh*t together, but i wouldn't have found Orijen if they had lol
 
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PMT

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fast14riot

fast14riot

I'm so glad to see so many premium food mentioned here! I manage a pet store and have to deal with feeding issues balanced with budget for customers every day. Fortunatley our "junk food" section sits rather idle most of the time.

Radar here gets Taste of the Wild Pacific Stream (salmon formula) daily and a half of a can of Tripett 3 days a week. If you choose to suppliment with canned food I strongly reccommend you try it. It has only 4 ingredients for the original, and maybe 6 for the venison recipe.

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From what I have heard talking to my reps, Canidae is now bagged in house, no longer by Diamond pet foods. This was part of the supply problems and also the recalls by Diamond in the past made some distrubution suffer.

Orijen is a fantastic food, you can call the company and they can tell you what farm the ingredients came from. Another comparable food is Evo, one of the few red meat foods available. Also Natures Variety Instinct is a very good system. I have been considering swithcing to Instinct which has a raw line of foods and also a dry. Their system is designed so you can use the dryfood with any of the proteins in the raw food and switching between them without the digestive upset.

Basically, if your dog is happy and healthy eating Ol' Roy (or other commercial brands), switching may not always be the best thing just because the food is "better."


-Xander

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dieselfuel79

dieselfuel79

I have 2 Miniature Pinschers. They've been on Natural Balance- All stages since they were old enough to eat dry food. Very healthy and shiny coats. Other owners of the same breed cannot get over how solid and muscular my guys are.
 
Omak

Omak

My dach originally was on blue buffalo small puppy, but he would go a day here and there without eating so we assumed he didn't like it, tried a couple other BB flavors (not puppy but small breed) and he did the same thing. We assumed it was BB but we moved to Royal Canin adn then to Nutro and he still doesn't generally have much interest in eating. Bags say 1 cup of food for him/day and he eats usually about a half or less. Some days he eats it all some days not. SO, right now he is on a mix of Royal Canin Dachshund, Royal Canin Skin formula and Nutro Ultra (I don't remember if he is on puppy or not). He turned 1 year old 2 weeks ago now.

He stays skinny and muscular so I'm not worried he is eating too little. With Dachs you have to watch their weight so they don't have spine problems so it's okay with me he doesn't eat a lot! I might switch his food when these three start dwindling down so I'll be watching this thread.
 
J

JustAnotherDude

We had our canine babies on a raw-food diet for the last 10 years of their lives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_feeding We used the BARF brand and some of its knockoffs, we bought marked-down meats and offal meats at the store, we fed them appropriate trimmings and leftovers, and treated them to things like canned salmon mixed with vegetable matter, etc.

June (rottie/chocolate lab mix, 110 lbs) lived to 14+. Daisy (chow/golden retriever mix, 55 lbs) had to be put down this year at a shade over 16 years old.

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Haggises

Haggises

After trying various brands of dry, finally settled on Whole Earth Farms Adult Dry Dog Food. Got fairly good meat to carb ratios and doesn't break the bank either (half the price of the Blue stuff....).
Dog likes mixed with canned, so give her a variety of various cans: NAture's Source, Canidae, Nature's Variety, Nutro etc etc. Whatever catches my eye in the pet shop at the time.
 
73mountaineer

73mountaineer

We have been keeping our Field Spaniel pup on Taste of the Wild since we got her at 9wks old. She is about 15 wks old now and loves the Pacific Stream formula. Grain-free options are limited around here, but that is the diet that she has had since she was weaned so that is what we are sticking with.
 
njpaddy

njpaddy

Saw some vets on the news yesterday talking about the increase in dog and cat cancers. One of their recommendations was to feed pets only high-end food without by-products. They didn't name specific brands.
 
heybatter

heybatter

Taste of the Wild Bison/Buffalo and then every other day or so I mix it in with some Innova EVO 95% protein wet food for variety. She seems to love it. I used Canidae for several years as well.
 
joshua1970

joshua1970

I too am glad to see so many here feeding their furkids top notch foods. it's a little more expensive, but they are worth it!


I used to prepare the BARF diet in the mid 90s for my GSD Richter - who was allergic to almost everything (darn American GSD AKC standard breeding practices) fortuntely her hips were fine... but back to the point, the old school BARF (bones & Raw Foods) diet took more time to prepare then than my own meals! So glad to see that there are commercial varieties of it these days- buying all those chicken backs always got me interesting looks at the butcher counters LOL and Instinct raw/dry is a great system indeed- the treats I give my pups are the instinct grain free treats. also I give them a raw marrow bone here and there - i never give a cooked bone as only cooked bones splinter.

give em all extra skritches to boot!!
 
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