Dry Food Poll

[Skruffy n Flea]

i answered your poll but it didn't allow for several answers per question: that's a forum thing, not yours :)

i feed a raw recipe that i make up [for both my dogs and one cat] and i supplement with VIP grain free. every 6 or so days tho, i'll feed each over the next 24 or 36 hours either bbq chicken, roast lamb or vip's grain free sausage or nature's gift or wellness grain free, all supplemented with a small amount of vip's grain free dry.

i chose vip grain free because i was happy with the ingredients

[SueM]

Wellness, all my dog do well on it, did try VIP grain free for a while but two of my dogs had issues on it.

[LisaCC]

Answering for my old lab that recently passed.

He was fed Wellness which he did well on, but he did best on Pedigree Light and Mature, we only stopped feeding it due to lack of availability.

These are the only foods he could digest with his Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

He also got a Carrot every afternoon and chopped up for training treats as he loved them.

He only got meat when his IBD was not flared up, then it was raw or cooked chicken a few times a week and big raw beef bones once a fortnight or so.

When IBD flared up he was supplemented with Kangaroo meat and mashed potato.

[Bjelkier]

The Samoyeds and Lab are on Kirklands All Natural and the Havanese is on RC JR but he seems to prefer the Kirklands.

[AussieDog]

My Blue Heeler is on Royal Canin Hyperallergenic Prescription dry food with a little bit of Hills Science ZD mixed in.

My Lab X is currently on Holistic Select. He goes through a 15kg odd bag every 6-8weeks and get's whatever premium dog food is on sale at the time. Previous bag was Wellness. He get's a bit of Natures Gift wet food mixed in.

I also have some of the Vets All Natural Grain Mix stuff which they get every so often when I remember to make it up.

Edited May 1, 2013 by AussieDog

[Scottsmum]

I've always fed my dogs on commercial wet and dry. Our Rotty cross lived to just over 15 on nothing but Pal his whole life and my Foxie girl lived to almost 15 on a mix of what ever was going cheap from the supermarket at the time - she finished off her last 18 months on ID wet and dry and cooked chicken veg and rice.

My new man is MUCH fussier then either of them ever were and also gets quite stinky (in terms of general body odour - not gas so much) when he's on regular supermarket food. So far (in the 9 weeks he's been home) we've tried

Hills Mature Small bites - he was stinky and went off them within a week of being home

VIP dog sausage (yes - I know, not dry) he was stinky and went off them within 3 weeks

Homecooked - I worry about the nutritional balance and I am time poor

Ziwipeak - Seems to enjoy it but can go whole days without touching it - body odour almost gone, eye goobies cleared up

VIP grain free from Woolies. Seems to really enjoy it. Early days yet but goobies and stinky don't appear to be present.

Hoping to settle into a good quality dry to supply nutritional needs with raw, RMB and home cooked to supplement / add variety.

[Guest Ams]

As a Rescue I have fed Science Diet, Canidae, Black Hawk, Advance, Royal Canin, Eukanuba and supermarket brands. Thanks to the generosity of Artemis we are about to try some of that. With a few exceptions the dogs do well on any of the top quality foods. During the 2011 floods I had to feed supermarket food to them and it took me months to get fur and condition back on the dogs that had reactions to it. Just recently I've had a few bags of Supercoat and Supercoat puppy donated. Whilst some of the dogs showed no reaction, several dropped coat (ie the coat snapped off at skin level) within two days of me starting to feed it. It will now take me months to get their coats back again.

I have had one dog allergic to Science Diet and several who will react to the source of protein (as in some good with chicken but not fish and vice versa) but this is rare. For the most part, as long as I feed a quality kibble they do okay.

[JRG]

Ten dogs here at the moment.

The young ones get Eukanuba Puppy, the older ones Canidae and the seniors Iams lite.

All get the occasional egg, raw green veg, bones, chicken necks etc as available. They also they have apples and/or oranges (which they LOVE)almost every day.

[bridgie_cat]

I have one girl with sensitive skin so did my research and on some recommendations got the 3 best skin support foods for her to try and based on our very scientific tasting trials in the kitchen :laugh: best game ever btw :laugh: the tastiest was Royal Canin derm support followed by hills science diet sensitive skin and last was eukanuba sensitive skin food.

If not for the sensitive skin issues however I would be continuing on black hawke lamb dry as this is one dry food all my dogs have been truly excited about (would happily use this as treats for training where they are usually a little bit pickier)

Suppose we mostly base our choices on what the dogs like to eat (from a selection of foods I feel are a decent brand with good ingredients etc)

[Airedaler]

I use Supercoat mainly. I also find the dogs do very well on Uncle Albers and Great Barko but found the gas produced was a problem from these so reverted to Supercoat.

[Taliecat]

We've fed canidae- fish and VIP grainfree. The canade my two had terrible gas and condition wasn't too good on VIP.

Have just changed them over to black hawk. So hopefully they do well on it.

[Leema]

I feed a bunch of different dry food to the dogs that come through rescue - pretty much anything donated I will use.

For my own dogs, I feed raw, but will feed them pretty much any dry food if I forget to defrost. I normally have Advance, ProPlan or Uncle Albers for my own dogs, but these foods are selected with no real thought. I hear Advance and ProPlan are good, while Uncle Albers I've used and have had dogs do well on it (especially dogs that I struggle to put weight on).

[oakway]

V I P grain free.

I use it because it is a great product and the dogs do well on it.

It is so easy to purchase it at Woolworths when you are out shopping.

Other brands of dog food I have used are usually only located a long way away from where I live in a specialist dog outlet. :)

[Guest hankodie]

Canidae grain free here. Love it, my 7.5 old GR is doing very well on it. Previously fed him Holistic Select large breed but unfortunately it caused lots of tummy upsets which is why I made the switch. The only downside is the availability - I have to have it shipped which can sometimes be a pain.

[sandgrubber]

I'm feeding ProPlan at the moment. Several people I know use and like it, including the breeder of a dog I owned long ago, and it's been relatively cheap lately. The dogs are doing well on it, but they have done well on many brands. Hoovers with no allergies. I change brands pretty often. Too many options to make sense of in the US.

I feed fruits and vegetables, and occasional bones and eggs, but NOT generally at meal time, so I checked Other.