Food Question – Orijen, Raw Diet Etc.?
Hi :]
Another food question – i get sick of seeing them x]
You might want to eat me after hearing this (Americans/Canadians anyhow) – we are currently feeding our puppy James WellBeLoved (actually you may not even have it over there..) well on the DogFoodAnalysis site it is a 3 star food.
It’s first 2 ingredients are: Rice, Turkey Meat Meal.
I’m a member of a Shih Tzu forum (mostly UK members) and they think that it is a good quality food. Over here we don’t have Canadian brands such as Orijen available (other than online) so most people feed either raw diet, JWB, Eukanuba, Royal Canin etc.
I enquired about raw feeding on the forum and a few people feed raw – ‘Natures Menu’ nuggets (link: http://www.naturesmenu.co.uk/products/fr…
I thought that raw was..feeding cuts of meat and a lot of effort but this is effortless, natural food in nugget form. Anyone in the UK had these (or US, wherever) and would you consider them a healthy diet for my Shih Tzu?
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Raw isn’t supposed to be effortless. Premade has stuff your dog doesn’t need or food mixed together that are sometimes fed separately like organs and muscle meat.http://www.rawfeddogs.net http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/rawfe…
meaty bones, raw meat and organs for the raw diet. thats it unless you do prey model where you dog is getting the whole animal like a whole rabbit guts included fur or no fur depending on your dogs preference.
I will give other premades credit though over Natures Made at least they add ground bones to the mix. Plus by not using premade you know 100% what you are feeding to your dog.
If you can’t or won’t feed raw…
Look for a food with meat as the first ingredient. Dogs don’t need all those other fillers like rice, run away from anything with corn in it.
I buy Orijen online for my dogs, they do a puppy food too!
We can only really get that, Solid Gold, Timberwolf or Eagle Pack Holistic here in Ireland……
I like your shi tzu…
http://www.canz.com
i personally feed Solid Gold Hund-n-Flockin all stages.
but other good ones are Canidae, Innova, Blue Buffalo…etc.
not sure what you can get in the UK. all i can say is to google
“human grade pet food in the UK” and see what you get.
forgot to add…pedigree is disgusting food full of fillers and poor meats. you want food that uses “human grade” meats. pet grade is basically anything that is not considered fit for human consumption…including deseased tissue.pet food companies are full of crap when they say they use “choice cuts of meat” what they use is left over cuts from the crap we cant eat. im sure not feeding that to my dogs….this includes, purina, pedigree, science diet, Iams, Eukanuba (which is owned by the Iams company, who are KNOWN to do animal testing).
My Shiba Inu is on an organic kibble called “Lotus” for puppies and is from Canada. You can go to their site. The pet store I go to recommended it to me out of all their food. Since I’ve switched to it my puppy has firmer stools. I add a half a spoonful of raw chicken or beef to the kibble to make the kibble more interesting. But I am really happy with the Lotus. I even tasted it mylself comparing it to his old California Natural kibble which tasted very bland (Just took a bite out of each-tastes more like a cracker). The raw food I get is from the pet store’s freezer and has ground in bones, cartilidge and pure meat which they said is better than any canned food any day. They also have freeze dried versions of the raw for treats.