Dog Food
 

Just curious about the group on dog food and supplements, (I have no connections to any dog food or supplement companies).
I feed my two Brittany Spaniels:
Morning
1. 1/2 slice of cheese (use this to hide medication if any)
2. Large Milk Bone

Evening
1. Nutro Beef or Chicken dry dog food
2.Tea spoon of Dynamite supplement mixed with dry dog food
3. Table spoon of virgin olive oil
4. Then little warm our cold water depending on the weather (just to enough to soften the dry dog food)

I avoid table scraps if at all possible for my dogs.

I would appreciate your thoughts and ideas on dog food.

For my 3-year old setter I keep it simple: two-cups of Natural Balance (salmon and sweet potato) in the morning and two-cups in the evening and a McDonald’s double cheeseburger for the Sunday afternoon trek back home.

I gave up on Purina, Eukunaba, and other big name foods years ago. Too much junk and fillers. Since then nothing but lean, high energy, allergy-free dogs and cleaning up the back yard is like picking up stale Tootsie Rolls. Only single-protein, grain-free foods for us.

I feed my dogs Solid Gold, the Leaping Waters version made with fish, grain free. Due to my Labrador’s bad seasonal allergies my vet has me add coconut oil or olive oil and some wet canned food for extra fats to cut down on the inflammation and it has worked wonders. My cocker just gets the Solid Gold and a little wet food. I also give them a spoonful of canned pumpkin for the fiber and as a vegetable.
Tim

It is pretty interesting how dog food has changed in the past 10-20 years. I can’t believe how much better all of my dogs have responded to being on single-protein grain-free food. I have tried the single protein food from CostCo which has about the same % of the same ingredients as Natural Balance but with a slightly higher % of fat and is ~ half the cost of NB.

Purina Pro Plan High Protein . Cup in the AM. Cup at 5PM exactly - she tells me it's time

I feed Pro Plan performance to my Labs. My two year old Nellie who hunting 3 to 4 days per week gets 5 cups per day and will still barely maintains her weight of 53 lbs. My10 year old less active gets 2 cups per day.

All of my setters have done well for years and have lived long healthy lives on Purina Pro Plan Performance 30/20. They get all they will eat free choice. Most of the time I wish they would eat more. During a hard running season they loose weight. They just do not eat much. Seems the harder they run the less they eat.

Ditto John Dallas. Purina Pro-Plan 1 cup 6 a.m. and 1 cup at 5 p.m.

She gets an extra cup at noon on hard-hunting days.

Costco’s dog food nearly killed her 3 years ago. It was fine for her first 2 years but unbeknownst to their customers they changed their supplier to a source in China. She lost 10 lbs. in as many weeks even though we increased her intake.

Be smart guys - I am now.





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We have used ProPlan for many years with good results. Some of our dogs have had allergies (Gordons are prone to them) and we've used the sensitive skin/stomach version. We've moved to night feeding to help prevent any gut-torsion issues. Elaine sometimes doctors up the food with something to get them eating when they balk and are tired of the same thing (she does that with me, too, but I seldom balk at eating...unfortunately).

I had allergy issues with the last two english setters using Pro-Plan

the breeder we got Tweed (our new setter) from recommended we try this brand,

https://muenstermilling.com/products...erfect-balance


both dogs are on it and seem to be doing very well