Nowt wrong with thatdemographic wrote: Sun Dec 25, 2022 2:18 am I just take Cerburus up on the fells and let him take the occasional MTB rider, it works out quite well as his coats great.
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Buy some meat and 'hand cook' it yourself (but not bone), it'll be cheaper and your dog will thank youAnt wrote: Sat Dec 24, 2022 7:20 pm Thanks so far. We currently use 'different dog' brand, which say's it's hand cooked and it's not cheap!
My lot go through 14kg of raw meat and 10kg of dry food per week, if I had the freezer space they'd be fed only meat.
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Our hound is on Eukabana stuff and Petslovefresh chicken slow cooked food. It is pricey, but she is healthy and has tons of energy, which means I have to walk her, which means I'm loosing weight and have more energy myself so I can have a beer and a good meal and it does not pile on the weight!
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My old dog would eat anything. I mean anything. Once he came back looking suspicious, and had white bogroll hanging out of his mouth. Dirty bastard.
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Rice and grain gives our new dog the shits. When he was a pup, even things that have eaten grain such as chicken gave him runny shits and constant itching. Hence the DIY deer hacking. It's definitely the cheapest and almost certainly the highest quality way of feeding him. We have 4 freezers though.
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We’ve recently swapped our lab from Dr Johns Hypoallergenic chicken and rice to chappie tinned and dry food as recently the poor bastard barely had a solid shit on the old food.
Granted it is costing us much more each month but we are also saving around £10 per week on chickens to cook for him as he needed the Dr J stuff supplementing to eat it* and a similar amount on prokolin to try to tame his guts. The change in diet solved his shit right out
* this should have given us a clue but it was highly rated and we chalked it up as we’d made a rod for our own back by spoiling him with extras in his bowl.
Granted it is costing us much more each month but we are also saving around £10 per week on chickens to cook for him as he needed the Dr J stuff supplementing to eat it* and a similar amount on prokolin to try to tame his guts. The change in diet solved his shit right out
* this should have given us a clue but it was highly rated and we chalked it up as we’d made a rod for our own back by spoiling him with extras in his bowl.
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I have a customer wit a springer. She was making its food what consists mostly of chicken and rice. Reason being all the expensive foods she tried made no difference. After another bought of shitting through the eye of a needle with blood it was the vet who said put him on Chappie. Now six month in Alfie is shitting normal and a happy little pooch, well apart from the farts.Silly Car wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:47 pm We’ve recently swapped our lab from Dr Johns Hypoallergenic chicken and rice to chappie tinned and dry food as recently the poor bastard barely had a solid shit on the old food.
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The vet we take ours to reckons that dry foods much better for his teeth as we were feeding him half and half dry/wet.
He's not right keen on just dry so gets maybe 7/8 1/8. Dry to wet.
Seems healthy enough to me anyway.

He's not right keen on just dry so gets maybe 7/8 1/8. Dry to wet.
Seems healthy enough to me anyway.

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One after every meal keeps the teeth healthydemographic wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 11:40 pm The vet we take ours to reckons that dry foods much better for his teeth as we were feeding him half and half dry/wet.
He's not right keen on just dry so gets maybe 7/8 1/8. Dry to wet.
Seems healthy enough to me anyway.
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Our vet also recommended it, thankfully the farts have settled now he’s on a mix of wet and dry food. The changeover period was rather fragrant and should really have been time to coincide with Christmas to mask the effects of sprouts and stuffingFelix wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 11:10 pmI have a customer wit a springer. She was making its food what consists mostly of chicken and rice. Reason being all the expensive foods she tried made no difference. After another bought of shitting through the eye of a needle with blood it was the vet who said put him on Chappie. Now six month in Alfie is shitting normal and a happy little pooch, well apart from the farts.Silly Car wrote: Mon Dec 26, 2022 10:47 pm We’ve recently swapped our lab from Dr Johns Hypoallergenic chicken and rice to chappie tinned and dry food as recently the poor bastard barely had a solid shit on the old food.
