Feeding Whippets

[kirs]

My Whippets are on James Wellbeloved.I feed them once on a morning and once late afternoon with a bit of butchers mixed in.They seem to do an awful lot of poos throughout the day.What food reduce this?I don't want to feed BARF!

 

[meddling]

My Whippets are on James Wellbeloved.I feed them once on a morning and once late afternoon with a bit of butchers mixed in.They seem to do an awful lot of poos throughout the day.What food reduce this?I don't want to feed BARF!

put up with the poo then! Barf is the only feed that really cuts down on it! as it has no bulking agents like commercial dog food!

 

[alilemur]

Not sure weather to reply to this considering the controversial nature of feeding on this forum, but here goes!...

My girls also did LOTS of poos, sometimes 3 each on each walk and whatever was in the garden. I recently changed their diet (due to fatty Buffy putting on weight) having fed a variety of biscuits and Butchers meat tins for a long time. They now have some minced tripe and chicken or lamb, with a chicken wing cut into 3 (all raw) in the morning, and more of the minced stuff at might, plus the odd bit of food scraps here and there and some raw nature diet chunks with veggies. Oh, and occassionally a small handful of James Welbeloved lamb and veg biscuits just before bed if they hassle me for food.

I was a little sceptical of the raw thing (& especially terrified of bones), but they do very little poo now, and its nice and firm carnivore stuff, not runny at all. And they have a lot less wind! The bonus is that they LOVE the food. Their eyes nearly pop out of their heads when I get it out for them and they clear their plates in record time. No more smelly tins to wash up and recycle. No crusty old leftovers they don't fancy anymore. Just empty plates and happy girls. They crunch the raw chicken bones with ease (I don't give them the big end one though).

The new diet is so much less hassle than it seems, as I just get the next day's food out of the freezer while I am giving them their breakfast. Easy. You can even buy the mince in Pets at Home.

Thanks to some of the people on this forum for suggesting a raw diet in the first place and for giving me a few more details about supplements, quantities etc.

This is my experinece anyway. Maybe it will help someone else.

Alison

 

[Janimal]

I Dont want to Feed Raw........please can I ask why??

Its so simple...you dont need hoards of room to feed it...I buy enough Raw to last a fortnight then replenish...and defrost it each night

ready for the morning...

Its not a hard diet to feed as some people may think....and my new pup is loving it at only 9 weeks old. :thumbsup:

dont knock it till you try it Id say.

 

[hellybobs]

Raw isn't for everyone.

My girls used to be on raw for alot of years then 1 of them stopped being able to digest it and it was actually making her ill.

I moved them onto Origen which is a complete dry food, it doesn't have carbs or any of the fillers thats in other completes.

My 2 do at most 2 poo's a day and they as small as they was when on the raw diet.

It is an expensive food but I think well worth it.

 

[rls22]

Most ppl will know we are big fans of raw feeding and wean our puppies on to raw and they're happily munching on chicken wings at five/six weeks old. However, I do accept that for whatever reason raw just isn't for everyone and consequently did our research into the complete foods available and we now recommend Fish 4 Dogs to those with our pups who don't wish to follow the raw route.

Bella has a meal of Fish 4 Dogs every day as well as her normal mince/tripe/bones etc. She clearly much prefers her meat and bones but will eat the F4D and she's a picture of health and her poos are good.

 

[teachtrinity]

I do think the better the food, the less waste gets produced, hence why dogs on raw food do poo less

I was like you, didn't want to feed raw, I didn't think I had enough freezer space, I wasn't sure where I would get it but when we went to stay at a friends house where her dogs were on raw, mine ate raw too, loved it and pooed much less.

I do however use a complete food for them occasionally for when we are out for the day etc I use Barking Heads food

this website is really good as its an independent dog food analysis and review site, not all food are on there but it does give really good information and a star rating for those that are on there, worth having a look at :luck:

http://www.dogfoodanalysis.com/

 

[haycroft]

i feed mine redmills..tracker/racer..cheap to buy and last for ages

raw if and when i can get it..(not both together at the same time,you are allow to mix with the tracker) havent abig freezer space either

my two do great on this,solid poos twice a day or so

my two will eat anything..ok they prefer the meat..i also feed eggs(we have hens)fruit and veg

my two are in fab condition and sparkly white teeth..another good reason if you can feed raw and bones

 

[kirs]

Ok have started them on Nature diet frozen meat which contains veg and bones etc.Am I not to give them any James Wellbeloved as well?If not seems an expensive way to feed them but I don't have a clue and where do you get raw chicken wings for dogs from?Going to start counting poo's now!

 

[annmarieandcris]

Asda sell raw chicken wings in the fresh section

 

[Esty]

I am considering switching to a more raw based diet but worry how you can be sure of the quality of the meat. I am naturally suspicious and worry about 'animal grade' meat :unsure: How can you be sure that the meat you give them hasn't been pumped full of antibiotics and vaccines, and the animals in question haven't been eating a really artificial diet themselves? Can anyone recommend the best place to source raw? Would I be better off just finding a good butcher - it's all a bit alien to me as I was veggie for years and now only eat organic chicken and fish.

 

[Janimal]

All farm animals at some point need vaccines and antibiotics....I work on a 750 acre farm and my husband in Animal Health too...

the meat is all graded before being sold

.....I buy my raw food from a local pet shop who buys it direct from Durham Animal Feeds...where it is packed into

bags....tripe lamb beef chicken...I just mainly go on what the meat looks like andI dont tend to buy the chicken because it ends up looking like a watery paste

so dont bother with it....but my chicken wings come from Asda...I buy 3 cartons a week...they are about £1.80 per box.

 

[jinnyfizz]

I think it must be more difficult sourcing good meat when you are in a more urban area than I am :unsure: but it's so easy feeding raw. You don't even have to open a bag/packet/sachet/can

If you have a good butcher who you trust then that is the best place to buy. I get all the dog meat and bones from my local butcher (10 miles away :wacko: ). They have their own farm and source the rest of their meat from local farmers. They write up on a chalk board which farm (and type of cattle for beef) that the meat comes from each week

The rabbits they supply are netted, not shot, and supplied to them by a local warrener (shame I didn't get to him first :lol: )

The chicken wings are from a local chicken farm which I know practices good husbandry. I do occasionally buy Tesco saver chicken wings if I run out, but I freeze them as usual before feeding (and I don't like doing it because they are more expensive than the butcher!!)

The dogs catch alot of their own dinner too .......... pheasants from the shoot over the lane which come into my fields , the occasional rabbit and mice too!

I can pretty much guarantee that there is nothing chemical in the wild food around here :thumbsup:

 

[twinkletoes dylan]

my 3 get a chicken wing or necks pieces or supermarket lamb neck stock bones for breakfast and for tea mixer with modest amount of supermarket mince usually beef sometimes turkey or pork if it's on offer, the wings and poultry necks come from the freezer of my local petshop about £3.50 for a big bag lasts about a week and the mince is £2 800g tray, also leftovers and veg but not gravy it's too salty, i tried the petshop mince in blocks but found it too mushy i and they prefer human grade mince, supplemented with grass, livestock poo and whatever they find on their walks lol

 

[Whippets Rule]

interesting stuff....my dogs are all now on James Wellbeloved Duck and rice or Ocean white fish and rice...Badger also has some tinned food as he's getting skinny in his old age......only one of my dogs does more than two poos a day..four of them poo once first thing and again after dinner..only little Bill poos four times a day but he gets his food split into three meals and he's only a pup.

I'd like to feed raw but when i've tried, they all get the runs( Zoe can't have raw due to her pancreatitis)and because we both work, i can't keep coming home to liquid poo everywhere....they all loved chicken wings( apart from Badger who wondered what the hell they were for)but they hadthe most awful runs whenever i fed them.

I like the sound of the Fish 4 Dogs food so i might see if i can get some samples to try.

i guess as usual different things work for different people.