What's everyone feeding nowadays...

    • Gold Top Dog

    What's everyone feeding nowadays...

    Just curious. I'm trying to rotate more often and not get stuck on one brand, one formula.. Juno ate Orijen Adult for almost a year straight. Liked it a lot, but the local prices jumped, so that kinda lit a fire under my butt to try something else, lol. Tried Taste of the Wild for a bit, but always had to mix something in. J's not a fan, and she is NOT a picky eater. Trying Nature's Variety Instinct now...she likes it...not sure about results yet. Her poops seem pretty loose though.

    I'm not up to date on current dog food trends or politics. :)

    Whatcha feedin'?
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    I feed mostly raw. But the current "kibble" on the go for puzzle toys and "emergency meals" is Innova Adult Small Bites. I don't have problems with switching foods, and as I feed raw I just switch brands each time I buy a new bag of food. Keeps it interesting (as interesting as extruded kibble can be I'm sure!!).

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    we were doing Taste of the Wild... until I let the boyfriend go food shopping. Now they're eating Blue Buffalo again (he swears I said Blue.... lol). Which is fine, they do well on it. No real complaints, except the price jump it took a while ago (hence the switch...)
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     Nature's Domain Salmon for breakfast and Honest Kitchen Thrive for dinner, here!

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    Echo gets Tuscan Natural Simply Pure Lamb/Rice

    Lexi and Darby are getting Now! Senior.

    Poppy the cat gets Evo.

    All 4 get warm water plus a bit of crockpotted meat/fish/organ mash. 

    As much as I "dislike" kibble, I have to admit all of them are doing as well/better than they were on raw. 

    I may rotate with the other TN formulas and Petcurean foods and maybe THK once in a while.  Really it comes down to a holistic type food that for Echo is around 24% protein 15% fat and for the bichons 24/10.  The lower the fat the better for them since they have chronic pancreatitis/liver/triglyceride issues. 

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    shamrockmommy
    The lower the fat the better for them since they have chronic pancreatitis/liver/triglyceride issues. 

     

      Jessie was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis two years ago, and she also has many food allergies. For those reasons, she is on Nutro Natural Choice Venison and Rice. I tried California Natural Low fat Rice and Lamb for five months and she did terrible on it, so I switched her to the Nutro and she has been doing great. She is fed small amounts four times a day to avoid over stimulating her pancreas;

     At 5 A.M., she gets 1/2 cup of Nutro topped with 1 1/4 ounces of baked turkey cutlets.

     At 10 A.M., she gets 1/2 cup topped with a lightly cooked egg white.

     At 2, she gets a 50/50 mix of 2 canned foods; Wellness Turkey and barley stew and Hill's i/d.

     For supper, she gets the same as breakfast.

      For treats, I combine a pound of 96% lean ground beef with some pureed carrots, apples, and blueberries. I also add an egg and a small amount of bread crumbs to hold the mixture together. That is spread on a baking sheet, covered with foil, and baked in a slow oven. I cut it into squares and freeze it.

     

      I do not rotate foods; my vet warned that a change in her diet can cause an attack. She seems happy and eats every meal right down.

     ETA; Miss Juno is a cutie!

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    still feeding dog food. Just like last time. *giggles*

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    Same here Gina.  LOL

    Still Taste of the Wild Salmon for the Hooligans.  RX Hills JD for the Budman

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    We are a raw house except for those days when I forget to defrost meals.  Then we are a Honest Kitchen house.

    I do use kibble for training treats.  We usually rotate between Acana, Nature's Variety, & any samples that I may have picked up at a dog show/event.

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    Juno gets horrible diarrhea from raw bones. Not raw MEAT, but like, chicken bones. Explosive diarrhea. I really wanted her to be raw-fed, but I don't know how to get around that, lol. I'll probably home cook when I have a bit more money (I homecooked for Cherokee a loooot, know wayyy too much about doggy nutrition lol) and a bit more kitchen, but right now it's kibble. Just wanted to know if there were any great kibbles I hadn't heard of or considered yet.
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    Chelsea, would you feel 'better' if you did a crockpot meat topper for her kibble?  I can't just plop down a bowl of kibble. I add warm water and a spoonful of crock potted meat/fish/organ mix and everybody's doing well.

     

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     No toppers here..thankfully the dogs don't care, lol.

     We rotate now and then, but we usually stick with Taste of the Wild (varying flavors, but everyone likes the lamb), sometimes Blue Wilderness, and we just tried the Earthborn Holistic's new bison grain free. The latter has gone over extremely well...even Aesop Pickypants didn't do his usual new food balk. It also didn't smell as "dog foody" as some foods, for whatever that's worth


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    I always add water (I physically can't give dry food...it's a thing I have from yeeeaaaars ago when Cherokee had crystals in her urine), but if I add "toppers" on any sort of regular basis, Juno starts getting picky, so I have to ALWAYS have toppers, which I can't deal with. I might just start doing one home-cooked meal, and one kibble meal. And then I don't have to feel bad about buying slightly cheaper kibble (Orijen and Instinct are expennnnnnsive!), and the home-cooked won't bankrupt me.
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    Sandy's a raw fed girl so no help there. Lol. But Maze was on Nature's Variety Prairie until she started having a reaction to it (don't ask. She's special). So now she gets NRG Buffalo. It's a Canadian made dehydrated raw.
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    Jetta gets fed Royal Canin because of low fat/calories in certain formulations, and it works with her food allergies.

    Piper eats Wellness small breed.

    The newborn pup eats formulaStick out tongue