What kind of dog food do you feed your dog?

**slowtypinwoman** · 12-31-2003, 11:35 AM

We feed the puppies Puppy Chow and Lucky gets dog Chow Visa gets Pedigree packets.
We spend way more than I thought we would on dog food. I think it will be better though when the puppies are on regular food. I have been getting coupons off E-Bay for the puppy chow.
We have Laika and Karma ~ Dobie puppies 66 and 64 lbs.~ 7 months old
Lucky~ mix breed and dumpie 100 lbs~ 4 years old
Visa ~Westie 20 lbs~13 years old
Bobo ~ cat 4 years old
Porkchop~cat 2 years old

**Guest1** · 12-31-2003, 11:44 AM

Zoë eats Kibbles & Bits Mini Bits.....and anything else she can get her chops on!! ('cept the cat food - ButterKitty eats Purina Cat Chow and Zoë if she gets too close to the bowl!!

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I'd love to find coupons for either of them! I'll start checking on eBay!

**Mom23boys** · 12-31-2003, 12:02 PM

Our lab eats Pedigree.

**guest2** · 12-31-2003, 12:05 PM

Our dog eats whatever is on sale or I have good coupons for. We have one cat on a special diet and his special urinary care cat food is expensive.

**seadream** · 12-31-2003, 12:12 PM

Our dogs eat Iams as one of the dogs has a weight problem and I couldn't find weight control in any of the other dog food, every but that.

The cat gets Friskies

**couponchic** · 12-31-2003, 07:35 PM

Until recently, Sparkie ate Purina Puppy Chow with Healthy Morsels, but now he is eating Purina Dog Chow with Healthy Morsels. I also buy him Pedigree pouches occassionally if i can get it free or cheap.

**Jayne** · 12-31-2003, 07:40 PM

Our three eat Pedigree dry dog food....our golden retriever,Hyacinth, is on a diet, we cut her back to only two cups a day and she has lost about 15 lbs...she has so much more energy and she is so much happier

**KKCondrey** · 12-31-2003, 09:26 PM

Speedy eats Trail Masters (that is when Rocky isn't eating it instead of her cat food....lol)

**PrairieRose** · 01-01-2004, 02:16 AM

Heidi eats Science Diet but it's funny cuz my ddad feeds his dog the off brand of the upscale food from Wally World and she really prefers it to Science Diet......(she's like me she has no taste lol)

**Crunchy** · 01-01-2004, 06:45 AM

G'day y'all!

Years ago, I came across Juliette de Baircli Levy's The Herbal Handbook for the Cat and Dog. It's put out by Faber, and is continuously reprinted. Read it and you'll see why.

de Baircli Levy started out as a conservatively trained vet, and then realised slowly that most vets were living in La La Land back then, and some still are doing so.

She toured through the Middle East with only her champion Afghan Hounds as company, and talked with a lot of gypsies, discovering their methods for feeding and curing their animals. Eventually, she was so good, she was teaching them.

As she puts it: what dog would, out in the wilderness, sit in front of a campfire of its own making, and cook meat? It's unnatural for the animal and yet we persist in feeding these devoted creatures of ours unnatural (cooked) food.

I have followed de Baircli Levy's advice and my dogs have always prospered by it.

It's also cheaper, short and long-term. The lack of vet's fees, the sheer pleasure exuding from a healthy dog, is a wonder to behold.

If you are thinking about getting a dog or cat, read the book first, perhaps your local library will have a copy.

I realise this is hardly what most people would have been expecting from a reply post on this subject, but I feel a great passion about this.

**Lori Biever-Launder** · 01-02-2004, 02:23 AM

Crunchy do you feed BARF (Bones and Raw Foods) as a diet? I couldn't quite figure out if that's what you meant.

Gypsy eats Nutranuggets as well as raw meat scraps and a few table scraps.

Our cats? Sophie is on a horrendously expensive diabetic diet food and Harvey eats the feline Nutranuggets.

**Crunchy** · 01-02-2004, 05:07 AM

Dear Lori,

I'm sorry, I have no knowledge of those products, as we live in Australia.

As to the diabetes, I'd seriously check out the book, it may well give you guidelines of some use.

Hope it helps.

**pip** · 01-02-2004, 12:59 PM

We feed our dog and cats Iams.

**Crunchy** · 01-04-2004, 02:18 AM

Sorry, should have replied properly!

Yes, it is a raw food diet, within reason, but it also has mixed cooked grains, herbs, etc. in it, as this is the best of what would be in a herbivore's stomachs, in a seme-cooked condition. Yes, I know, it's a bit on the enough-to-turn-my-stomach, too. Just don't query too closely what goes into our processed food!

Get the book! Get the book! Please, please, get the book!

Alternatively, check out Google. You'll find some interesting information, and the fact that she has had a film made about her life.

Dominus tecum,

and woof,

**PrairieRose** · 01-04-2004, 03:26 PM

Crunchy I'm sure you're right about what dogs and cats should be fed as opposed to what we actually feed them. I occaissionally will give my poodle a fresh meatball of hamburger and she lurves that. I just love the convenience of packaged food for her.....I'm lazy.....