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What kind of food do you feed your Cav?

Adelya21

Adelya21

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I keep hearing many people on here say they feed their dog quality food. what do you feed your dog? wet or dry? name the brand and where you purchase it.

My dog currently eats instinct dry and wellness core canned but riht now he is mostly eating the dry. I want to switch to orijen dry soon.
 
Sonny is 7 months and I feed him Natural Balance Duck and Potato formula. It was what our breeder started Sonny on and he seems to do well with it and really love it so we have just never changed.
 
Lucky and Sparky both get The Honest Kitchen (Force variety, which is a grain free chicken). Lucky also gets their supplement "Perfect Form"

Lucky had chronic issues with diarrhea and soft stools and he is soooooo much better on The Honest Kitchen.

The Honest Kitchen is essentially a dehydrated raw food. I fed Frozen Raw for a few months prior to trying The Honest Kitchen. I'd highly recommend that as well, I just changed for convenience because I have limited freezer space and wasn't able to get to the pet store always every week and a few times the store didn't have the variety of frozen that I wanted to I had to go to another store or try a new protein (which because of the stomach issues I wasn't fond of doing).

Anyway, I highly recommend The Honest Kitchen. I asked my groomer to stock it and I get it from her.
 
Barney is currently on Wainwrights dry and natures:menu wet which is fed whilst training or from a kong while I am trying to socialise him with the cats, he gets about 100g of the dry and only a couple of teaspoons of the wet to seal the kong!! I am trying to source Wellness Small Breed Healthy Weight in the UK but it's not easy to find, if I don't get it by the time the Wainwrights is finished, I will be using Orijen. Barney came with a bag of Bakers :mad: and the most horrendous poo, I didn't even try to wean him off it, just put him straight onto a decent food and he has improved from day one (now day 15 :) )
 
RAW! Chicken wings, necks, lamb hearts, mince - Bella used to scratch like crazy and I looked at her skin and it was very flaky and someone suggested a food allergy. I started feeding raw just over a week ago and she doesn't scratch half as much as she used too and the dandruff is still there but it is clearing up.
 
How easy do you find RAW to manage, do you store it in the freezer and defrost the night before? I'm tempted but not sure I could handle the mess, do you need to feed any vitamin supplements with it?
 
I feel either James Wellbeloved or Wainwright dry mix, but I also feed some raw like chicken, liver, hearts, kidneys etc every so often. I like to mix things in with their dry food as well such as fat-free organic yoghurt, egg or sardines.
 
Fish4Dogs for my trio, Only since we changed to this food has Maddie had an interest in what she is eating that lasts more than 1 bag, and no more colitis. Yay! It suits Pippin as well, I think the fact it doesn't have rice has contributed to his yucky eyes clearing up. Rosie loves the puppy food, so a thumbs up all round.
 
barnacles said:
How easy do you find RAW to manage, do you store it in the freezer and defrost the night before? I'm tempted but not sure I could handle the mess, do you need to feed any vitamin supplements with it?
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Usually I buy in bulk and freeze and take it out the night before or 2 days before and defrost in the fridge. I separate it into freezer bags (a meal per bag).
 
hi

when i first got louie at 8 weeks old the breeder was feeding him on jameswelbeloved so for the first 9 months he was happy eating but then he went of jameswelbeloved then i tried all the dog food in the suppermarket and he will only eat cesar chicken and turkey flavour and bakers compleat and fresh cook chiken
he will not eat veg or fruit
 
lindylou said:
hi

when i first got louie at 8 weeks old the breeder was feeding him on jameswelbeloved so for the first 9 months he was happy eating but then he went of jameswelbeloved then i tried all the dog food in the suppermarket and he will only eat cesar chicken and turkey flavour and bakers compleat and fresh cook chiken
he will not eat veg or fruit
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I generally find that dog foods from supermarkets are pretty poor quality, the one exception would be Harringtons but even that is mediocre. Bakers contains chemicals which are banned in human foods as they are proven carcinogens and also chemicals which are banned in baby and infant foods because they cause blood disorders. There are lots of really good quality foods that don't cost much more... although that is easy for me to say if he genuinely won't eat anything else. I have found all my dogs will acquire a taste for fruit and veg eventually, especially carrots which also act as cheap dentastick xx
 
barnacles said:
I generally find that dog foods from supermarkets are pretty poor quality, the one exception would be Harringtons but even that is mediocre. Bakers contains chemicals which are banned in human foods as they are proven carcinogens and also chemicals which are banned in baby and infant foods because they cause blood disorders. There are lots of really good quality foods that don't cost much more... although that is easy for me to say if he genuinely won't eat anything else. I have found all my dogs will acquire a taste for fruit and veg eventually, especially carrots which also act as cheap dentastick xx
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Harrington used to be in the same kind of league as JWB and Wainwright, however they recently changed their ingredients to less than 4% meat from 20% without actually telling anyone. Someone who fed it finally noticed so people are now aware. It's a shame because they were a affordable brand with decent ingredients and now they're right back to the same league as Wagg who they also produce!
 
I give my lot raw in the morning usually Natural instinct as it has the veg and everything already in it. The evening they get a small amout of Skinners Duck and Rice.A couple of mine used to get colitis alot but i have found using the Skinners they dont anymore. They also get bones when i have a delivery but i dont have room in the freezer to keep them
 
Thank you for all your replies! wow, I havent heard of many of these foods! I tought I did some diligent research on dog food before we got our pup but I guess I am going to look more into some of the brands you all mentioned.

Lani, I think you are the only one from the US so I will google yours first lol.

We buy our food from pet supplies plus a chain pet food and supplies store. The ones we feed him received great reviews from sites like http://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/ but it may not be as good as some of the food that you guys mentioned.
Lani said:
Lucky and Sparky both get The Honest Kitchen (Force variety, which is a grain free chicken). Lucky also gets their supplement "Perfect Form"

Lucky had chronic issues with diarrhea and soft stools and he is soooooo much better on The Honest Kitchen.

The Honest Kitchen is essentially a dehydrated raw food. I fed Frozen Raw for a few months prior to trying The Honest Kitchen. I'd highly recommend that as well, I just changed for convenience because I have limited freezer space and wasn't able to get to the pet store always every week and a few times the store didn't have the variety of frozen that I wanted to I had to go to another store or try a new protein (which because of the stomach issues I wasn't fond of doing).

Anyway, I highly recommend The Honest Kitchen. I asked my groomer to stock it and I get it from her.
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That dogfoodadvisor site is great! The kibble brands I've fed are: Orijen, Acana, California Natural, Innova, EVO, Fromm, Nature's Variety Instinct, Canine Caviar and Annamaet. Some other brands of dehydrated/raw: Ziwipeak, Addiction, Nature's Variety medallions.

Of all these I'd say my favourite are Orijen, Acana, Canine Caviar and Ziwipeak. All are good brands, though. I've also fed a ton of canned food brands and really like Blue Buffalo Wilderness cans. (These brands are all available in the US, btw. I used to live in Canada :) )
 
yes ! I love that site. another one I use as well is http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com. Orijen is one of the best I hear I plan on gradually switching my pup even though instinct has excellent reviews as well. My pup doesnt like wilderness! I told my brother to feed his dog, not a cav, that and his dog loves it! My dog is so picky with food!
lucidity said:
That dogfoodadvisor site is great! The kibble brands I've fed are: Orijen, Acana, California Natural, Innova, EVO, Fromm, Nature's Variety Instinct, Canine Caviar and Annamaet. Some other brands of dehydrated/raw: Ziwipeak, Addiction, Nature's Variety medallions.

Of all these I'd say my favourite are Orijen, Acana, Canine Caviar and Ziwipeak. All are good brands, though. I've also fed a ton of canned food brands and really like Blue Buffalo Wilderness cans. (These brands are all available in the US, btw. I used to live in Canada :) )
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I used to use the dogfoodanalysis site as well, but it's not as comprehensive and isn't updated often, so I've switched to dogfoodadvisor now :D

Oh I forgot to mention that I've fed Taste of the Wild before and the dogs do really well on it! It's on my rotation list right now :) Haha, my Papillon Cadence is really picky too.. but I don't bother coddling him anymore so he has to eat whatever I feed or go hungry. His choice!
 
You know thats really good you dont coddle him! lol. I have to muster up the courage to do this! mine will just watch me put the food in his bowl and we say eat (he knows what it means) and he will just look, smell it pretend he will eat and then run after us. we used to have to stand there until he ate from his bowl now he wont eat it until we put it in on the floor or feed by hand. but we stopped feeding by hand. we just got scared at a certain point bec if he didnt eat he could get sick so we fed by hand now enough is enough lol. theres nothing wrong with his bowl. he will eat wet food just fine or human food when we give him some chicen or carrots etc but NOT dry food.
lucidity said:
I used to use the dogfoodanalysis site as well, but it's not as comprehensive and isn't updated often, so I've switched to dogfoodadvisor now :D

Oh I forgot to mention that I've fed Taste of the Wild before and the dogs do really well on it! It's on my rotation list right now :) Haha, my Papillon Cadence is really picky too.. but I don't bother coddling him anymore so he has to eat whatever I feed or go hungry. His choice!
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Oh Cadence does the same thing ALL the time! I'd put the bowl down.. he's sniff and walk away.. LOL. When he was a puppy I used to mix in wet food, add in yogurt and all that but after a while he'd refuse to eat any of it, so I decided well buddy you're getting that and that's the end of it! Nowadays he will eat at night when he's REALLY hungry and can't afford to be picky anymore, lol.

Have you only been feeding him one type of food so far? It COULD be that he doesn't like the food.. if that's the problem you could try feeding him another brand and see how it goes.. but if he's done this with many different foods, then yea.. he's just being picky! LOL.

It's MUCH easier to have a glutton dog, really! Lyra LOVES food and will eat absolutely EVERYTHING I feed her with gusto! I love it. She is so efficient that she finishes her food within 2 minutes.. Even less if it's raw (because I feed ground raw, so she just licks everything up within a minute, LOL) or canned!
 
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