Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 1:00 am Post subject: Good tinned food to use as mixer with Burns
I did post this in the Chappie thread but it's not entirely relevant; so I created it's own thread.
Well like some of you know, I fed Chappie for well over a year. I recommended Chappie very much so on the forum and would still do so - because it definitely got Frank through a difficult period with his tum. Even though I'm a firm believer in "if it aint broke don't fix it", I felt guilty every time I bought a bag in the pet-shop and walked past the "Burns" and "Arden Grange" and "James Wellbeloved" stacks to get to the till!
I uhhmmed and ahhhhed about switching my dogs from Chappie despite the steady results for Frank - previously we've had very bad results with Frank on other food; but after hours of reading through the ingredients of practically every dog-food available I decided to give Burns Pork & Potato a try.
The dogs are just through their first 7.5kg bag of Burns Pork & Potato and we're now on our first 15kg bag. So far; so good - if it isn't my imagination Frank's coat seems to be softer and more dark chocolate.
The only problem we're having is that we used to feed 1/2 tin chappie mixed in with the dogs chappie dry; and now they're being a bit picky over dry burns! I've tried soaking it with vegetable stock but they're still not super-keen. They are eating it; but they don't seem to enjoy it as much as chappie, and Frank's food theft seems a bit more "determined" of late.
At £1.80 a pop for Burns wet; this would put our monthly food costs up quite ridiculously if I started buying this - and we've already increased our budget more than twice just by buying the burns in the first place So at the moment they are having Winalot tin mixed with burns... but now I feel like I'm feeding them Gordon Ramsey and mixing it with Mcdonalds.
Any suggestions? Hubby is not impressed thus far and is bleating about going back to Chappie as the dogs seem to enjoy it more!
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Buddie has a spoon of the wainwrights trays in his tea. Sardines mixed in with lunch at weekend. He loves his food a bit wetter but other meals he has wainwrights dry, salmon and potato. Wainwrights trays are 4 for 3 pound. Not sure that helps. His coat is amazing since we started this regime. He was on Eukanuba and although poos were good he had dreadful puppy dandruff.
Luna yums down her food but I did in the past when adjusting and she wasn't as keen mix anything from a spoon of scrambled egg, fish finger, gravy, chicken, apple, pear, plum, peach, rice .... in fact anything leftover from my dinner in with it. And I mean tiny weeny bit so as not too upset the balance but just give it more scent. If I had any dog wet food in then she might get a tiny spoonful of that maybe but nothing too substantial added in and nothing specially bought in. Then if I forgot or didn't have anything to mix in with it she seemed to yum it down anyway!
What about a gravy thing to pour on the dry rather than adding wet food - I read an advert for the Vets Kitchen range that TV Vet Joe Inglis - did you see Vet school when they were all training it was quite a few years ago now him and that Emma, Trude and Steve, they all turn up in TV and magazines now and again - anyway he's got this new range and it has 'sauces' the website is petskitchen.co.uk but you can get them in supermarkets and boots too. We can't use it as Sam's allergic to chicken and all contain chicken but it might be the equivalent of tomato sauce for children for your two's dry food! I think there are three - a digestion one, a joints one and something else I can't remember.
I was going to suggest Butchers Tripe too. It's wonderfully stinky and the dogs love it. However if that doesn't agree with Frank, then I'd go back to a bit of the wet Chappie. I've known dogs live all their lives on tins of Chappie and revoltingly healthy dogs they have been .
You know what... I think you are making a rod for your own back! There is no NEED to put wet food in. You are wasting your cash and pandering to the dogs! If you want to feed them the dry, then just present it. If they don't eat it, bring it up and wait till there next meal. Sounds like Frankie is playing you like a drum.
So my advice either feed one or other! Save yourself the hassle!
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hi
Lola has always been on dry and max on wet , Tried to get him on dry but
no matter how slow he just couldnt handle it and after being diagnosed with stomach ulcers vet advised keep him on wet so i started with butchers but anything that smells to much he wont eat so he on winalot
Lola started to sit by him at feeding time desperatly hoping he would leave a bit so i started to mix a bit with her dry food the begging at max stopped . The best bit though was her coat after a couple of weeks became so shiny and soft everybody was commenting the only thing that had changed was her food so i keeping the winalot and she loves it
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So at the moment they are having Winalot tin mixed with burns... but now I feel like I'm feeding them Gordon Ramsey and mixing it with Mcdonalds.
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