What do you feed your dog(s)?

[Relique du Madde]

Our dog get's some kind of kibble... but they like eating oranges and avocados that fall from our trees.

 

[catsclaw227]

We feed our dogs the good stuff from Costco, alternating periodoically between the salmon and the chicken and lamb.

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No corn at all, sweet potatoes for filler, etc. Dogs just have trouble digesting corn and wheat, though mine LOVE fresh popcorn and carrots.

Good for you. Most of the dog food with corn filler is lowest grade Monsanto corn that they can't feed people. But because livestock and pet feed have different regulations, they can use the rejected corn from human products.

{edit}Had a slanderous, non-grandma-friendly political opinion about Monsanto, but removed it due to site rules.{/edit}

Look into some of the organic dog sausage products. Some of them are really good.

 

[Flatus Maximus]

We go with dry kibble (Science Diet) -- just that in the morning, but mixed with pumpkin in the evening. They love the pumpkin! It also make identifying turds in stealth mode a bit easier.

 

[MacMathan]

My empathy for those of you with recent passings.

Our English Mastiff is fed a mostly raw meat/bone diet, with mushed veg that is in season, eggs, yogurt, and supplements to balance it out. She also tends to get whatever leftovers that are canine appropriate or those she can find that we have not put away

Sidenote anyone watching Westminster tomorrow?

 

[Elf Witch]

my Italian Greyhound is allergic to wheat and corn so I feed him a special diet that uses potato as the filler but it is way down in the list of ingredients. He has never eaten kibble no matter how much we tried to get him to he would literally starve himself. And if you have even seen an Iggy they have no extra body fat so losing weight is a huge deal.

I feed him a brand of organic wet food that I buy from a specialized pet store I can't remember the name right now and I am to lazy to go look. We also cook for him when money is tight and he gets boiled chicken, potato. yogurt, green beans and we add a ground up doggie vitamin.

My poodle eats a dry kibble usually Blue Wilderness. She also gets tiny spoonful of the Iggy's wet food.

I feed my cats high quality food as well. My experience has been shown me that feeding high quality food saves money in the long run. The animals just seem to be healthier so less vet visits other then routine or accidents and they live longer.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

We are, however, on the short list for a BC puppy from Visions.

The breeder has been sending out litter updates w/photos. Damn, puppies are cute! Mom is going to have a devilish time picking just one, and she only has about a month before she has to decide.

 

[catsclaw227]

Unfortunately, we are moving out of our huge home into something more reasonable. We have talked about a puppy... we like big dogs, but our Darwin did produce a MASSIVE amount of hair - a Furminator brush proved it. If we rent a townhouse, what decent sized dog will proved us what awe are looking for? Large sized, good with children, easy to walk. Am I looking at a Bullmastiff?

 

[Cor Azer]

The breeder has been sending out litter updates w/photos. Damn, puppies are cute! Mom is going to have a devilish time picking just one, and she only has about a month before she has to decide.

I know! We got both our Cotons from a breeder, and had to forcibly stop ourselves from visiting her website, afraid we'd want to grab a few more from her.

 

[Thunderfoot]

My daughter's gentlemen callers....

Just kidding, I couldn't resist. I'm actually a cat person.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Personally, I like most critters people keep as pets, except arthropods (other than hermit crabs). We've had gerbils, fish, cats & dogs.

But my cats died back in the 1980s, Mom has been buying dogs since I went to college, and my Dad had to get rid of his aquarium when he moved his office. So all we have now goes "bark bark."