What do you feed your dog?

[lovemelovemedog]

Just wondering if anyone cooks for their dogs and if so what do they put in it? I cook chicken mince with carrots, potatos, beans, pumkin, rice and pasta. My dogs love it and throw all the dry food on the floor to get to the last scrap of it. lol.

[tessa_s212]

I'd love to be able to feed raw or cooked. Just a homemade diet. But I don't have the time or money for that(I am only 15 and still living with my parents). My choc. & white parti cocker has seizures. Just recently (maybe last month) I found out I(my parents) were feeding our dogs basically a bunch of stinky dog poo. We feed Mainstay which is Purina. I also found out taking an epileptic dog off grains can either eliminate or reduce seizures. Just tonight I have finally convinced my mother and father to switch Cocoa to Nutro Lamb and Rice Adult formula. (which took about three weeks of constant nagging and Cocoa having another seizure today ) It still has grains in it but I am hoping this will help. I'd change to an even better food than that, but since I am in a dinky place in Northwestern Ohio...there isn't a whole lot of activity/stores around here. The nearest place or Eagle Pack and Canidae is in Toledo. So, I will just be happy with Nutro.

[bellababy]

I feed my dogs Blue Buffalo dog food. Occasionally...okay rarely, I will cook them chicken and rice but that is only on special ocassions.

[opokki]

My dogs eat Timberwolf Organics. I give them some people food on occasion.

[Dax]

I feed commerical dry food plus left over "healthy" human food like vegtables.

[Moo]

Dry food: 40% Innova lamb and rice preformance; 60% First Mate - Premium Plus Potato and Fish hypo-allergenic low activity formula. (Yeah, high activity plus low activity, why not go for moderate... That's just Kirby's thing.)

Plus small additives like carrots, tomatoes and broccoli.

[Dobified]

We feed a completly raw diet, and some cooked leftovers. They are fed a combo of different protiens such as Beef, chicken , liver, pork ( on oaccsion) lamb and sometimes bison and wild game. They are feed this along with a mixture of raw veggies and fruit, vitamins, minerals, kelp, milled flax. cod liver oils, sardines, canola oil, olive oils, sunflower oil etc.


They don't get this all at once, they do get meat , some bones and vegies along with some vitamins and some oil everyday. we mix it up just like you would your own diet.

They are more healthy now then they were before we started this type of feeding.

[.Little Texas.]

Ok, well Chihuahuagirl has given me some valuable info. I now feed Harry and Ninka dry food and soft food (Butch and ekenuba (sp??) ) and one egg a week. It makes their coats so shiny, and THANKS CHIHUAHUAGIRL!! That was really good info, and I appreciate it here for all the helpful ppl on this forum!!

[Blaze]

Lilly has a variety of foods and she'll never eat anything for 2 days in a row so I'm constantly giving her new foods. Her basic diet consists of a high quality kibble and some sort of meat/s like chicken, lamb, pork, salmon, tuna etc plus she gets 1/2 a cup of oats or brown rice each day and she always gets vegetables added (usually broccoli (sp?), carrots, potatoes or cauliflower) and she'll also get things like cottage cheese, low fat natural yoghurt and tofu plus her absolute favourite food is vegemite so she usually has a little bit of vegemite in her kong. I don't give her real bones but she will have rawhide bones or pigs ears for a treat occasionally but generally if she wants a treat she just gets a raw carrot (which she LOVES anyway!) And she also loves fruit so she's always trying to eat apples, bananas, melon or some other fruit that I'm eating. She's pretty fussy but she loves most of the food I give her! The food she absolutely won't eat is soft dog food or dog roll and she wouldn't eat the kibble either if I didn't make her!

[Lessica Jake]

Bailey eats Kibbles & Bits.
Before anyone jumps down my throat about how bad it is, just relax.
Kibbles & Bits is the only thing that she can eat without getting violently ill. We've tried "higher quality" foods, and she ends up with bloody stools, vomiting, generally miserable.
She also gets some leftovers; cooked veggies, rice, mashed potatoes (her favorite), noodles, sometimes a bit of gravy.