Your Dog's Daily Diet

Casey: Yorkshire Terrier, 15 years-12 lbs
Zoe: Field Setter, 5 years old (soon 9/2)-33 lbs.
 
Forgot to mention the ages and weight last time.  Needless to say, ABADY "classic" formula, 24/7.  No other additives or supplements.  Food and water always available.  On average I think they eat about combined maybe 1 1/4 cup per day.  My metal scoop (soup can) maybe holds little better than 2 cups and I do that about every other day maybe.
 
 

Tango, 4 1/2 year old Border Collie/Toller mix (36lbs): Just under one cup of Orijen kibble (AM), and a little under a pound of raw (PM) daily.

Dance, 4 1/2 month old Toller (20lbs): 3lbs of raw daily, give or take some. I just put whatever looks about right in her bowl and it sustains her weight well.

Morgan, 22 month old Rottie (65lbs): 4 cups of Canidae Lamb & Rice daily.

Winston, 9 year old Dobe (84lbs): 2.5 cups of Canidae Lamb & Rice daily.

My dogs are all fed twice a day. Sometimes they (the kibble fed dogs) get canned food on top of their kibble (Canidae or Cal.Natural), pieces of apple, pureed fruits and veggies, plain yogurt, or a whole egg. They always get water mixed in with their meal. Dance gets a couple of supplements too (Vit. E and salmon oil) and Winston gets glucosomine.

i also like giving a wide variety of things... so... every day it's not the same... nor is this week's veggie mush the same as last week, etc.
 
today this is what she had (mind you...she is a very picky eater)
 
15lb westie
 
afternoon time: offered a whole chicken wing, ate half....then a few hours later ate the other half.
 
evening time: offered her a mixture: raw ground turkey with veggie mush (cucumber, green beans, parsley, carrots, strawberries, a little garlic) a few pieces of liver (i have to cook the offals cause she wont eat it raw) gizzard, and some green tripe.  Then I add in some yogurt, salmon oil, vit e, and some missing link.  She only ate two bites of this....so it got trashed.
 
night time, she finished the other half of a huge beef rib.... stripped it clean.
 
Sometimes she wont touch ANY of her food.....and that's the day i feel I have to resort to a kong filled with kibbles to get all the essentials.  1/4 cup TWO, some freeze dried liver and some peanut butter.
 
Everyday is something else on the menu.  Sometimes instead of ground turkey, she gets ground beef.  The veggie mush always varies depending on what I have on hand.  Then occasionally she gets fish cooked since she wont eat it raw.  She also gets a raw egg occasionally.
 
I havent gotten her to eat other kinds of meat like raw rabbit meat, pork or veal yet...but I just started doing a modified raw feeding...so we're starting out very slowly.
 
So instead I compromise and give her innova evo canned turkey/chicken, beef, venison, and rabbit.
 
My motto is variety is key.

Maggie - 57 lb. 11yo Springer Spaniel mix:

AM:  3/4 can Merrick's (any that are grain free), 1/4 can Nutro Healthy Dessert or a soft homemade treat (because her sister gets it, so she has to have it too!)

PM:  1 patty Nature's Variety Raw (flavors are rotated nightly), 1 tbsp plain yogurt

Dolly - 58 lb. who should be 50 lbs. 5yo English Bulldog:

AM:  1/2 cup Nature's Variety kibble (currently Venison, but rotated every bag) with a little organic beef or chicken broth, 1/4 can Nutro Healthy Dessert or a soft homemade treat to hide her phenobarb pill

PM: same as Maggie

Nightly treats for both dogs:

Either 1/4 Nutro Healthy Dessert or a soft homemade treat (Dolly's hides her evening pill)

Jeez....I am amazed the amounts being fed to smaller dogs[8D]..............ok...I am feeding dogs that weigh over 65lbs.....the biggest 119......mine get Canidae....my portion of all meats, eggs, cottage cheese, fish...canned or fresh....my feeding routine depends on the how much exercise took place during the day.

I change what/when I feed alot, but here's what I'm doing right now:
 
I'm rotating several kibbles and am using any of these at any given time: Avoderm Baked, Natural Balance Fish and Potato, Castor and Pollux Natural Ultramix, Bil Jac, Blue Buffalo, and Maxximum Nutrition (only the lamb and rice formula, which is waaaay superior to the other formulas.) 
 
For supplements I use: Salmon Oil, 8 in 1 Multivitamin, and either Missing Link or Show Stopper, whichever I feel like buying. Axl gets NutraJoint because he's gotten a bit stiff.
 
I give them all home cooked meals 2-4 times a week depend on how often I feel like cooking. They also get some table scraps and leftovers.
 
Everyone except Axl gets a couple of raw meals a week, depending on what I happen to have on hand. They at least get one recreational bone a day, if nothing else.
 
Ogre, Axl, Culley, and butter get 2 meals a day. Pepito gets 3 because he has a fast metabolism and needs to eat often, and Chief gets 4-5 because he's a puppy.
 
Chief eats primarily goat grain (see his thread, he's perfectly healthy and chooses not to eat kibble.) But I make sure he eats at least a few small RMB's a day and takes some fish oil and a multivitamin.
 

Beauty - 7 year old 50 lb. Lab mix

In the morning she gets half a can of wet food with her joint supplements  and vitamin E pill hidden in it.
In the evening she gets a bowl of water (about 1 1/2 cups) with 1 tsp. fish oil and a little of her "Plaque Off" water additive.  She doesn't like to drink water, so I use the fish oil as an incentive.
Dinner is 1 cup of kibble (currently California Natural fish - I rotate brands every 3-4 months). She usually gets part of her dry food either from a treat-dispensing toy or by doing tricks for it, or just running after pieces of kibble when I throw them across the room.

Sophie - 18 month old, 28 lb. Beagle mix

Her diet is much simpler - 1/2 cup of dry food twice a day.  Right now she's eating Canidae, but I rotate brands for her just like I do for Beauty. She gets a fish oil capsule after dinner and vitamin E once a week.

I have 2 GSDs.  Chazz is 7.5 years old and 75 lbs.  Buck is 2.5 y.o. and 100 lbs.  Being shepherds, I always want them on the light side so it's constant adjusting  to keep them just right.
 
They both eat Timberwolf Organics but different formulas. 
Buck gets the Ocean Blue - 1.25 cups 2xper day. 
Chazz gets 1.25 cups 2xper day of the Elk and Salmon. 
 
They each get 1 sardine per day and I add sweet potatoes and other veggies to their bowl so the amount of kibble is adjusted down according to the additives. I also adjust up or down depending on whether or not they look like they are losing/gaining weight as well as their activity levels. 
 
During the winter they are sometimes lucky to get 3/4 cup 2xdaily.  If I can't get them out to exercise and they start looking like they have shrunken heads, I cut way back on their kibble.

Rah is an almost 2.5 year old male doberman, and weighs 92.8 lbs as of wednesday.
he is mostly raw fed, and when he eats raw its one meal a day, anywhere from 3-5 lbs at a time. Every morning he gets 3000 mg fish oil, Vit E, 300 mg simplicef for his chronic pyoderma - in half of a piece of string cheese, as well as glycoflexx and dermastrength.

1 day a week he eats kibble rather than raw food, on training days (Wed ) - he eats about 1 cup of EVO in the morning on wed ( to prevent him from vomiting from his empty stomach, poor baby)  and in the evening after class again another cup (to tide him over, since he wont be eating until thursday pm.

he also eats a multitude of training treats each week. on average we go through 2 packs of string cheese, and at least 2 packs of all natural, hormone free, uncured chicken hot dogs (super spendy but they are the only ones i can handle putting in my mouth!), and then there are the random pieces of my own meals he eats and his unnatural obsession for yummy chummies...

tyler is almost 11 yo male doberman and his regime is changing since his hips are getting much worse. he weighs in at a very slim (VERY) 68 lbs.
he eats 2-2.5 cups of EVO in the evening, or sometimes 1 cup twice a day. he gets half a string cheese in the morning to take his soloxine (0.8 mg twice a day), his etogesic, and his glycoflexx treats. currently twice a week he also gets adequan injections. tyler also gets xanax and/or valium as needed for thunderstorms, tramadol for additional pain control, and some other things here and there (homeopathics and herbals). 3-4 times a week he gets raw instead of kibble, depending on if the RMB's are things he can chew. he also is allowed to clean out all the cat bowls each night after they are fed

300 mg simplicef for his chronic pyoderma

That's ok for everyday? Teenie's skin is headed the direction of ick, lately. I've been thinking about asking for some simplicef to clear it up. I probably will, soon. The Clorhexidine baths are a pain, and aren't helping as much as they used to.

Houndlove - I love the idea of filling a stripped marrow bone with peanut butter and freezing!!!! My girls will love that!! I'm gonna clean up their bones from last night and do that! They are gonna go nuts for it!! Thanx for the idea!! Any others?????

Kaiser 2.5 y/o GSD and Wyatt 1.5 y/o rhodesian ridgeback both get about 2 cups of canidae per day. If Kaiser wants more, he gets more. I try not to let Wyatt eat more than that. They get some of whatever i eat for dinner...they really love peas!! I try not to overdo it on the treats, in fear that they'll get fat, but they like blue dog bakery treats, and any other little goody i happen to pick up. Oh, they are obsessed with wellness venison wellbites!

is it ideal? no - i'd love to not have to have him on antibiotics for the rest of his life - but the minute i take him off, his coat suffers and he breaks out with another staph infection. such is the life of a blue doberman- tyler needs periodic courses of meds, but nothing like rah. rah's pyoderma gets to be so bad that he actually chews his left hind leg raw - simplicef is the only antibiotic that has helped him.

ive been meaning to take him to one of my colleagues for a holistic consult, but the last one told me nothing helpful that i hadnt already tried or used, so...

i havent put him on steroids and i hope to avoid it - and part of it is the constant battle with CDA, which he does have.

Abraxis is a 10 y/o chow. She eats Eagle Pack Enhanced Maturity, which was meant to be a transition food to get her from Kibbles n Bits to a better food... but she didn't handle the change well and she's doing great on it now, so I'm not going to press my luck by changing again.

Boomer is a 2 y/o pit bull. He eats Eagle Pack Holistic Select Lamb & Rice with salmon oil.

Wylie is a 5 y/o lab who had elbow reconstruction surgery. He eats a rotation of Eagle Pack Holistic Select, Nature's Variety, Canidae or Eagle Pack Natural. He also gets salmon oil, Knox Nutra Joint, L-carnitine, taurine, glucosamine and MSM.

Shy is a 12 y/o sheltie mix. She gets either Bil-Jac dry or Eagle Pack Holistic select with salmon oil.

Rotten is a 9 y/o rottweiler. She gets any of the above mentioned brands with salmon oil.

They all get a morning meal of Nature's Variety raw medallions frozen in their Kongs. The kibble is their evening meal and is usually topped with a spoonful of canned food - EVO 95%, Canidae, Eagle Pack, Nature's Variety or Solid Gold.

rah's pyoderma gets to be so bad that he actually chews his left hind leg raw - simplicef is the only antibiotic that has helped him.

Teenie's starting to lick raw spots on herself, too. I don't know that it's pyoderma. I don't know what it is. Last I had it checked, I shaved it with a #40 and the vet said it looked like staph, and to try clorhex. It got better, for a bit, but the scalies are back and she's licking herself raw, again. I'm tempted to run an allergy test on her, but with her other issues, money is pinched.

The holistic vet I took her to gave her a bach blend that really helps. He also suggested that I use a choke chain, and Hills C/D for her bladder issues, so.... eh. I don't really believe in training collars for untrained dogs, especially when they have disc disease.