Diana  Offline
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Lab Names: Mallie, Fish, Tom, Bondy, Mia, Ruby & Otter!
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 Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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Forgetting the panel on the back, I would quite honestly advise strongly against mixing complete and tinned food except for occasional purposes to get the dog to eat up if its been ill.....
Compete food is just that, complete. Adding anything other than water to it unbalances it. I appreciate some like the idea of meat for dogs, and fine, feed meat and biscuit mixer, NOT complete food...
You are also paying out a fortune for nothing really - you are using the meat like sugar on cornflakes trying to make the complete taste more appealling, BUT you are training your pup to need this to happen for the rest of its life... OR switch to meat and biscuit.
Complete food is so easy and all those millions of pounds of research are wasted if we add lots of something else just for the sake of it 
SO, really, I would have a think. Your dog doesn't like its complete food hugely. Its not suprising when the other choice is yummy meat, and tinned meat is like tinned conrred beef, all the rubbish they couldn't get away with in any other form they splodge it through a machine and pack it with 75% water into tins.
Ok if you decide on meat and mixer thats fine.... Pedigree Chum tins are better than most others but are still pretty poor compared to dry puppy complete food. But you must use the Puppy formula for now, until around 6 months like complete food... not the adult formula. And get puppy small bite biscuit for the time being if you go the meat and biscuit route. You will get a LOT of poo because you will probably need a couple of tins a day plus biscuit.
BUT if you go the complete food route and you could feed a better quality one for still less money than buying daily tins, the pup will soon come to realise this is it and like it or lump it. Its not like tempting a fussy human child to eat by adding this and that, this is a dog and what you do now, like with kids and their eating habits, will follow them to adulthood.
A quality dry complete food for a 15 week old puppy would be about 400gms a day. A decent sized coffee mug, if you measure is around 100gms... so around one and a third per meal three times a day...
Di
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