Best food for a pup?

Roman is on Pedigree Puppy wet and dry food at the moment, 3x a day. He has mainly dry food with some wet mixed into it.
The only reason he is on this is because thats what he was fed on with the breeders and I know not to change diet straight away.

I want to change him onto a good diet (the food hes on is making his poop sooooo smelly, worst poop Ive ever smelt lol) but something that won't break the bank either and is readily available.

I don't have time for making my own food and the BARF diet is too much for my pregnant brain to take in  

Any recommendations?

Here's a list of dry food recommendations :- http://staffy-bull-terrier.com/dry_food there is James well beloved and wraiwrights too which are both good mid priced foods.

Brill thanks

Darcy did well on James well beloved and a few of our members feed wainwrights and there's do well too

I Hear Pedigree is not the best food to feed but Roxy gets it with some dry bakers and then in the afternoon round 4ish I give her raw and she loves it Bones and all  

jmk wrote:I Hear Pedigree is not the best food to feed but Roxy gets it with some dry bakers and then in the afternoon round 4ish I give her raw and she loves it Bones and all  

Bakers is worse than pedigree.


As for the original post, i feed wainwrights and my dog looks amazing.

jmk wrote:I Hear Pedigree is not the best food to feed but Roxy gets it with some dry bakers and then in the afternoon round 4ish I give her raw and she loves it Bones and all  

I'm afraid that you are actually feeding the worst food imaginable (Bakers) along with one that isn't far behind (Pedigree). 

Bakers is full of nasty additives known to cause hyperactivity and even cancer! There's also only a tiny amount of meat products in it!

OK Thanks for that I will have to change it thanks for the heads up..

Hi, we had the same problem with Harley, the breader fed him pedigree and after some falled atemps we tried royal canin, he loves it and has been fine on it, not over expensive and is cheaper if u buy bigger bags from internet.

Yeah I know pedigree is not the best option but I had to keep him on it as I didnt want to upset his tum.
Thanks for the feedback

raw mince is cheap and quick, and liver, and raw chicken wings. although the chicken wings disappear in a nano-second and I wonder if I've actually fed them  they also have wainwrights as a 'filler' and pets at home scoop treats cost about 2 pounds for a weeks worth  

jo garnett wrote:raw mince is cheap and quick, and liver, and raw chicken wings. although the chicken wings disappear in a nano-second and I wonder if I've actually fed them  they also have wainwrights as a 'filler' and pets at home scoop treats cost about 2 pounds for a weeks worth  

You know I have never thought about feeding raw meat. My other half will not go for that at all I'm afraid... he won't eat meat himself and I would bet money his response would be "Whats wrong with biscuits?"  Me and him have massive differences in opinions  

I used to feed my lab on Science Plan with Tripe mixed in and my Dogue used to get Beta again with tripe (and a tin of rice pudding once a week). Its been ages though since I had dogs so I'm not up to date on whats the best these days.

As I said ideally it needs to be easily accessible. I am house bound pretty much (Andy will do the walking after Romans had his jabs) so ideally something I can order with my Tesco shopping... I'm thinking maybe the James Well beloved?

I order raw mince, liver and chicken wings from Asda every week, along with all the cat food (swear the delivery men think we're a rather strange household!!)

jo garnett wrote:I order raw mince, liver and chicken wings from Asda every week, along with all the cat food (swear the delivery men think we're a rather strange household!!)

How do you prepare it all? And can a 11 week old pup start on wings? So you blend it up together or just feed say mince one meal and wings the next?

Mines only 14 week and she loves chicken wings and as done from being 10 weeks old also loves Bones from the butchers dont blend the wings just give um raw well I do  

I feed them a different one each night. Raw mince one night, liver the next, chicken wings the next. (Maybe chop the chicken wings in smaller bits though for a pup) Sunday, we (the humans!) have a cooked chicken so they get the leftovers (but NO cooked bones for the dogs) It's sort of evolved over the last 18 months. I know it's not perfect, but they're very happy and healthy  

You can buy raw food for dogs already mixed up with all the good stuff in ready prepared which is great if you're short on time or you can't face handling all the various organs and grose bits!! Usually sold in bags or tubs frozen so easy to store.

HI im new to forum but my puppy was on pedigree wet food also and her poo was same after she had settled in to new home i changed her food to nature diet got it from petshop £14.50 for case of 23 . its much better than pedigree hope this helps . my pup doesnt really like the dry food ...

kandydragons wrote:

jo garnett wrote:I order raw mince, liver and chicken wings from Asda every week, along with all the cat food (swear the delivery men think we're a rather strange household!!)

How do you prepare it all? And can a 11 week old pup start on wings? So you blend it up together or just feed say mince one meal and wings the next?

you raw fed pups the same as adults no need to blend or mince anything, that's what their teeth are for

have a look here:
www.preymodelraw.com

kandydragons wrote:

jo garnett wrote:raw mince is cheap and quick, and liver, and raw chicken wings. although the chicken wings disappear in a nano-second and I wonder if I've actually fed them  they also have wainwrights as a 'filler' and pets at home scoop treats cost about 2 pounds for a weeks worth  

You know I have never thought about feeding raw meat. My other half will not go for that at all I'm afraid... he won't eat meat himself and I would bet money his response would be "Whats wrong with biscuits?"  Me and him have massive differences in opinions  

I used to feed my lab on Science Plan with Tripe mixed in and my Dogue used to get Beta again with tripe (and a tin of rice pudding once a week). Its been ages though since I had dogs so I'm not up to date on whats the best these days.

As I said ideally it needs to be easily accessible. I am house bound pretty much (Andy will do the walking after Romans had his jabs) so ideally something I can order with my Tesco shopping... I'm thinking maybe the James Well beloved?

 So do me and my other half.. But I pay Hugo bills and his health comes first! Have a look at Eden , it's home made xx

I'm vegetarian but have recently changed to RAW for Daisy's benefit, I;m coping fine! maybe your OH can be persuaded  I'm mostly feeding the pre-prepared mince but also trying to introduce some bones for her teeth, so far chicken wings and turkey neck!

I did the same as above, I used natural instincts to start off, then introduced bones and offal x