Variety

I give my dogs a great deal of variety, I personally don't feel as though any one food is 100% complete and nutritionally balanced.  That's just me tho. Just like with myself I believe in variety...it's not healthy for a person to eat the same thing day in and day out...so, therefore I try to give my dogs as much variety as I get. 

My dogs rotate between Nature's Variety-freeze dried, kibble, canned.  Canidae-kibble and canned.  Go Natural - kibble, Natura - kibble, canned.  NRG dehydrated foods.  I rotate between all the different protein sources they offer for all the foods...except with Cassie she does good on the Salmon, Venison and Lamb but not beef or chicken she jsut gets a bit scabby...but, nothing like before...she used to break out.  We give her all different protein sources of canned tho...she does well on all canned foods.
Athena only gets the grain free variety of foods for her HD
We give them all raw meat - Lamb, beef, chicken, whole eggs shell and all, partridge, Moose, Deer, organ meat.  I try to get free range animals...I have a few friends who raise cows, chickens....my brother hunts...I have to buy the lamb so I'm not getting free range lamb.[&o]  I give them different veggies, fruit (especially wild berries, I freeze some from my own yard which I know are pesticide free), organic yogurt, ground flax seeds, different oils including fish oil, canned wild salmon, canned sardines.

I also give my healthy leftovers mixed with their food.  My dogs are doing fantastic on this variety.  We feed them a rotation, most dinners are raw and breakfast is kibble mixed with canned and freeze dried or dehydrated.[]

ORIGINAL: inne

How much variety does your dog's diet have and why?   

I like variety, I think it is good.  My dogs have been on a number of kibbles,as well as ground veg, raw meat, ground fruit and eggs.

Paula

Mine only get Purina One kibble, but I vary the meats/veggies i cook for them.  They get fresh caught baked fish or canned salmon or mackeral, chicken legs, chicken liver, gizzards, ground turky, calf liver, sweet potaotes, green beans, peas & carrots, squash, broccoli, apples, pears.  I make a pot of "chicken stew" once a week (it is cooked for 24 hours so the chicken leg bones will go to mush) and I added different meats and veggies with the chicken.
 
I started cooking for mine just because I thought they would enjoy it, but I also know they are getting a good quantity of meat and cooked veggies.  Because I am not sure just what they get with the home cooked, they get about 2/3 kibble and 1/3 home cooked, and also a multiviramin, fish oil, EsterC, and vita. E.

I use Eagle Pack only!
But for variety, I feed different formulas each week.
I also add slightly cooked meat on top...that meat is either pork, beef or turkey. And when I slightly cook that meat,,, I add baby food veggies,,,,different ones...or canned pumpkin.  I have recently cooked down chicken thighs and added veggies and fruit to it,,,,and put that ontop of her EP. I will continue doing that.
That is what Bubby gets for variety!
Why???   Because it makes me feel better!  I belive she couldn't care less,,,but I do it for me!

I usually have 3 different brands that i rotate on a daily basis.They either get raw,homecooked or canned and raw green tripe at least 4 times a week mixed in to their meals,very similar to cally's routine/meats. My dogs wouldnt miss a beat if they went to live at her house,as they would be fed very similarly to what they do at home []

I rotate different commercial and fresh foods because i think dogs need variety the same as us to be in optimal health,and i do think they get bored eating the same food day in day out.I try to give them as many different variations of as many different foods as i can,you cant go past fresh meat and veg,and each one has different nutrients to offer.

They rarely eat the same thing two meals in a row. Why? Because I wouldn't want to eat the same thing all day, and because I really believe that variety is essential for optimal nutrition. Every food has a different nutrient value. I do not buy the same brand, or shop at the same store, twice in a row. Green Giant aparagus is grown in different fields than Walmart brand asparagus.

I'm really weird about variety, for all of us.

I'm also really interested in variety, especially varying the protein/fat ratios....is there any health benefit from doing so? I don't vary my dog's diet too much but I rotate my cat between Innova Evo, Solid Gold Katz-n-Flocken, and some occasional homecooking.....I figure if there is any nutritional deficiency in any food, rotating makes up for it, but I don't have any proof.

Hah, actually, the animals that get the most variety in my house are my puffer fish and my hermit crabs...the crabs are going on 3, 4, and 6 years respectively, and the puffer is 3, although he will hopefully make 15-20 (amazing, eh?)

Ella gets a variety of meats.
Sometimes she gets ground meats of sorts, other times boned meat, muscle meat, and the different types of meat: Turkey, chicken, beef, lamb, fish, pork. Sometimes I feed kibble. Rarely.

I used to switch between a few good brand of kibbles all the time, but then I found Nature's Logic.  I was so impressed that now I just switch between formulas of the Nature's Logic. 

I also give Nature's Logic Lamb cans and sometimes Natural Balance. 

He also gets raw, usually Nature's Variety either Lamb, Venison, Rabbit, or Beef, but right now he is eating JJ Fudds Beef.

I used to switch between a few good brand of kibbles all the time, but then I found Nature's Logic. I was so impressed that now I just switch between formulas of the Nature's Logic.

ORIGINAL: jojo the pogo

I just picked up a 4 pound bag of Nature's Logic (my first) to add to my rotation (along with a bigger bag of Evo RM, also my first).  Because I only have one dog and have more than one bag of kibble open I do not like to buy > 25 pound bags of kibble. 
 
I wish Nature's Logic had a fish based formula and more size choices for bags of kibble. 

ORIGINAL: DakotasDoode

I used to switch between a few good brand of kibbles all the time, but then I found Nature's Logic. I was so impressed that now I just switch between formulas of the Nature's Logic.

ORIGINAL: jojo the pogo

I just picked up a 4 pound bag of Nature's Logic (my first) to add to my rotation (along with a bigger bag of Evo RM, also my first).  Because I only have one dog and have more than one bag of kibble open I do not like to buy > 25 pound bags of kibble. 

I wish Nature's Logic had a fish based formula and more size choices for bags of kibble. 

They have a duck and salmon formula.  They also make a sardine oil, which is supposedly better than Salmon Oil, athough I'm not sure why.  Their canned foods are great too.

They have a duck and salmon formula.

ORIGINAL: jojo the pogo

I looked at the so called Duck & Salmon.  The ingredient list would seem to dictate a different name however.

The first 5 ingredients  Duck Meal, Millet, Chicken Meal, Chicken Fat, Salmon Meal

I use Natural Balance Kibbles, either venison and brown rice or sweet potato and fish.  For her morning meal, I mix a couple of tablespoons of Natural Balance canned in with the kibble just to give it a different taste.  She loves it, licks the bowl clean and her coat actually glistens.........