donski Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 I used to cook up my small dog a gourmet home made feast once a month and freeze it and feed it daily. We now have a mastiff and there’s no way I can keep up such a labour-intensive, freezer-filling indulgence. Please tell me what the ABSOLUTE best commercially available soft food on the market? (No Heath-issues). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twodoggies2001 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Donski, I know you asked for the best commercially made soft food, but won't you consider feeding, instead of you cooking up a home made feed, totally raw? I find that the best. If you put down commerially produced and raw in two bowls next to each other, they would discard the produced and go for the fresh. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebanne Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 What do you mean by soft food? I think Nature's Gift is an ok tinned food but no way would I be feeding a mastiff much of that. Is this a pup? If so did the breeder not give you a diet sheet? Such a large breed needs a very good diet. I'd be asking the breeder or other owners about diet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donski Posted October 20, 2019 Author Share Posted October 20, 2019 I was considering BARF if I can get it locally . I’m guesing that comes under the raw category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mischie Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 I give mine a mix of good quality dry food with dog mince mixed in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandgrubber Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 There's no best dog (or for that matter, human) food. Dogs, like humans, are omnivores and do well on a variety of diets. And like humans, dogs tend to be healthier if they're kept slim. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine_72 Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Can you clarify what you mean by soft diet? My top picks for commercial diets are: Prime100 rolls (cooked) Prime100 spd raw Proudi raw patties Big dog raw Frontier pets, dehydrated raw, just add water before feeding. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PANDI-GIRL Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Hi @Christine_72 Frontier Pets for a Mastiff, can you imagine the monthly feed bill, 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine_72 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 On 10/25/2019 at 4:24 PM, PANDI-GIRL said: Hi @Christine_72 Frontier Pets for a Mastiff, can you imagine the monthly feed bill, True. I always forget to factor in what size dog we're talking about lol I have one 8kg dog, who is pretty easy and cheap to feed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Best Dogs! Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 I've found the Canidae brand is frequently on sale for about $100 for 20kg* at...it was either Best Friends Pet store or PetBarn. On this kibble, I've found I can actually feed my dogs less as they can gain weight quickly on it...which is downright unusual for my dogs! Previously I was feeding assorted high protein high fat diets to help keep the weight on and in excessively large meals. But on Canidar I could actually reduce the amount I gave them, making the bags last longer. I'm very pleased with that, health weight has been a challenge! And on the side once a week I pass over all the local stores to see if there's any mince meat on sale. Last week I grab 10kg for $15 because the store had ordered too much. Split them into tupperware (I ran out of tupperware haha!) and then I mix them in with the kibbles. This combined with the meats I already had is likely to last about month being mixed into kibble (noting they get lots of pure meatball training treats and dehydrated treats) Sometimes I grab Black Hawk and Science Diet mobility on a good discount too. My general aim is for 20kg bags at about $90-100, either on sale or through a voucher. * But one time it was 20kg with an extra 10kg on top for free and I died from delight at that find! $100 for 30kg!!! Wow! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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