Diet Help

Hey People,

I am getting more and more confused the more research I do.

As you may be aware I brought Barney home (8weeks) on Saturday. He has settled very well and is great.

However, the Breeder was feeding him Pedigree Dry, which, I understand from my pre puppy research on this site is not good.

I intend to change his Diet and am interested in the Raw Feeding. However in order to make sure I get things right I have seen this Nature Diet Raw product range that seems to cover all the angles.

I have not seen this supplier mentioned much on the site and thought I would canvas opinions.

Any advice on changeover methods / timing would also be appreciated.

I just want to do what's best for my new Best Friend.

I'm not sure this will help at all but I have a 4 month old who was being fed raw minced chicken twice a day from the breeder, we brought him home and started mixing the minced chicken with dry food as the Vet & petstore both told us they get all the nutrients they need with dry rather than raw which only has some, and then within 3 days had him completely on dry, now he eats dry (Hills Science Diet - but I'm in Aus and not sure if you get that there ?) and I either mix tuna chunks, sardines or olive oil with it. He very much loves his treats of rump steak & scrambled eggs tho    There's so much conflicting advice, at the end of the day I believe it's about what is working for you both. Good luck! Someone with more experience will be along soon to help

Hi Tony,

I heard puppy need to change diet slowly but personally if you want to change from dry to raw do it straight away if not then start mixing raw into normal food. We didn't like what breeder was feeding him therefore we changed to better quality dry food straight away. Zeus took well and no issue whatsoever for changing his food. Then we discover local pet shop is selling frozen raw meat which we started to mix with dry food. Zeus loves it and notice that he doesn't like dry food anymore. Around same time we saw documentary about dog food which made our mind up to raw food diet.

We are using Basil's Raw dog food (http://www.basilsdogfood.co.uk/) also carry on feeding local shop frozen meat. Zeus loves it and his coat became soft and lovely! Basil's food is comes with Beef, Lamb or Chicken with mix veg. Looks like good quality food and deliver next day if you order Tue,Wed and Thu. We are happy with food/service and might buy more from them in the future. (We bought starter pack which comes with Beef x 4, Lamb x 4 and Chicken x 4)

Hope thit is help!

Hi Tony
I feed Natural Instincts raw food.
It seems to tick all the nutrient boxes   Toots loves it and seems to be very well on it   

Once you get into it a DIY raw diet is really easy   Have you seen this thread?

https://staffy-bull-terrier.niceboard.com/t14787-raw-diet

Thanks for the advice guys. I have pretty much made up mind Raw is the way to go. Now I will decide on a brand until I am confident enough (if ever) that I won't cock up a DIY Raw diet.

I'm afraid i won't feed it, it's a low quality food IMO and turns to slop when defrosted, I DIY raw and feed whole animals and pieces

One of the big points of feeding raw is the dental and mental workout, the dental is obvious chewing large pieces of meat with bones keep teeth clean, but dogs get a mental workout with chewing. A dog releases hormones that make them feel happy and 'chilled' when they chew - hence why most dogs chew, so i provide them with that with their raw diet

I'm just over a week changing Ledger over to raw and certainly recommend, we are just using the Natures Menu chicken mince at the moment (the large 2kg bags that actually look like mince as oppose to the small rectangular packs which were just mush) for convenience as P@H keep well stocked an i only have space for just over a weeks food for him but I have ordered a new freezer so can buy in bulk from DAF which will work out cheaper and mean I can have a more varied diet for him and also take advantage of all the freebies you can get at the butcher