Daisy's Mom
Well-known member
Hi Everyone,
I'm just curious as to what all of you feed your Cavs, especially those of you who feed commercial foods (but please answer either way, of course, as I'd love to hear how many of us home-cook for our dogs.)
Daisy's breeder fed Purina Pro Plan Natural Selects Turkey and Barley dinner. I fed her that and then TRIED to switch her to numerous other more premium brands, including EVO, Wellness, Merrick, etc. No go. She literally will not even try any of them, though I dearly wish she would eat them. The ProPlan Natural Selects really does have a pretty good ingredient profile, though, so I guess I should just be happy with that since she eats it pretty well. It has no corn, and has lots of seemingly high quality meat listed as the first few ingredients. My latest attempt is Canidae Chicken and Rice. She doesn't like it either, so far at least.
She will not even try canned food, of ANY brand. It's like it grosses her out. She went on an eating strike last summer (resulting in ultrasounds, barium series, blood tests, etc), and the vet eventually kept her overnight and was amazed that she would not eat any of the 5 types of canned food he put in front of her. I eventually got her eating again by feeding her the Satin balls linked on this site several times. She really liked that, thank goodness! Picky little booger!
I sprinkle freeze-dried liver powder on her dry food, and she won't eat it without it (spoiled, I know). I also give her one chub of freeze-dried Nature's Variety Praire almost every day (lamb, venison, or beef). She eats those fairly reliably, but doesn't really seem to love them.
She also gets left over meats (if they're prepared in a healthy way) and vegetables occasionally.
So, what about you? Anybody feed Canidae? I've heard some good things about it online, and some scary things, too, unfortunately.
I'm just curious as to what all of you feed your Cavs, especially those of you who feed commercial foods (but please answer either way, of course, as I'd love to hear how many of us home-cook for our dogs.)
Daisy's breeder fed Purina Pro Plan Natural Selects Turkey and Barley dinner. I fed her that and then TRIED to switch her to numerous other more premium brands, including EVO, Wellness, Merrick, etc. No go. She literally will not even try any of them, though I dearly wish she would eat them. The ProPlan Natural Selects really does have a pretty good ingredient profile, though, so I guess I should just be happy with that since she eats it pretty well. It has no corn, and has lots of seemingly high quality meat listed as the first few ingredients. My latest attempt is Canidae Chicken and Rice. She doesn't like it either, so far at least.
She will not even try canned food, of ANY brand. It's like it grosses her out. She went on an eating strike last summer (resulting in ultrasounds, barium series, blood tests, etc), and the vet eventually kept her overnight and was amazed that she would not eat any of the 5 types of canned food he put in front of her. I eventually got her eating again by feeding her the Satin balls linked on this site several times. She really liked that, thank goodness! Picky little booger!
I sprinkle freeze-dried liver powder on her dry food, and she won't eat it without it (spoiled, I know). I also give her one chub of freeze-dried Nature's Variety Praire almost every day (lamb, venison, or beef). She eats those fairly reliably, but doesn't really seem to love them.
She also gets left over meats (if they're prepared in a healthy way) and vegetables occasionally.
So, what about you? Anybody feed Canidae? I've heard some good things about it online, and some scary things, too, unfortunately.