I’m assuming that most people who visit this site are very concerned with the quality of their food and what goes in to their mouth. I was just wondering what all of you out there feed your pets, cats, dogs, whatever, and why. I think that a lot of the pet food out there is crap, just like a lot of human “food” is crap, and is making our animals fat too.
I add Udo’s oil blend to both of my dogs food. It might be my imagination, but the shepard seems to shed less. Sometimes as a special treat I give them Trader Joes smoked canned salmon. No wonder they listen to me more than my wife.
Hi Erin, I’ve had 19 cats and 3 dogs during the past 23 years. I live in the Chicago area but I have a holistic Vet in Sturtevant, Wisconsin that I deal with. It’s called the Healing Oasis. The phone number is 262-886-1100. They do consultation over the phone for a cost. I also buy natural cat food at PetSmart and use an enzyme powder called Prozyme. This you can purchase over the Internet. Just type in Prozyme and do a search. I finally had 3 of my oldest cats put down last year, ages 17, 19 and 21. Be happy to converse with you if you have any other questions.
Ron
I feed my cat raw hamburger five times a day, mixed with creatine, bcaa’s, and 2 grams of myostat. If all goes well, I’m going to eat him in about 2 years. Cat has a good amino profile.
I give them dried cat food,usually whiskas or Hill’s. I also feed 'em whiskas and sheba can food. On occasion, I also provide them with some raw meat. I never give them any food which would be considered “unhealthy”.
My bird (umbrella cockatoo) gets Harrison’s bird food and also measured amounts of organic papaya, regular mango, regular rotisserie chicken breast, organic broccoli, organic chicken breast, and organic fat free cheese (which actually tastes quite good.) Probably about 2/3 of calories are from the Harrison’s though.
My cat gets Hills. The rat gets Nutro Natural Choice Light dog food as well as various “treat” choices all of which are healthy, mostly grain products but sometimes cheese or chicken. The ferrets get Totally Ferret.
Oh: the ferrets and rat also get Ferretone, which is sort of the Udo’s Choice of oils for ferrets. I may try it for my cat too.
I feed my 4 dogs human grade food. The recipe I use consists of: brown rice flour, oatmeal, white fish (pollock or tuna), ground grean beans, ground carrot or yam, parsley, garlic, sunflower oil, fish oil, a crushed tums and a tsp. of vitamin/mineral mix I get from my vet. I often substitute canned salmon or raw ground beef for the white fish except for one of my dogs who has allergies. It’s fairly expesnsive and a pain in the ass to prepare, but my dogs are lean, muscular and full of energy. Their coats also look much better than they did when on premium dog food.
Gallileo(My Iguana) eats all sorts of greens, fruits and tons of squash.
Not that it’s a big thing to anyone but myself and the bird, but, there’s a typo in my previous answer. Instead of organic chicken breast, it should read organic blackberry-flavored apple sauce. And besides these he also gets some pieces of plums, peaches or other fruits sometimes, generally not organic.
The reason for organic foods being the basis of his diet is that birds have much less ability to safely metabolize things such as pesticides than do most mammals or man, and it’s widely believed that birds do better on organic food.
(Actually, health food people wouldn’t consider the Harrison’s to be organic though it calls itself such, because it includes vitamin and mineral supplements of no doubt synthetic origin, but I consider that of zero importance. The relevant point is that the food ingredients were grown without pesticides.)
I have 5 labs and I feed them a blend of nutro lamb and rice and eagle pack premium select lamb and rice. I also give them white rice, raw carrots and potatoes, fish oil concentrate, olive oil, B complex with vit c, and vit e.
One of my female chocolate labs had a severe UTI as a puppy and ended up with beginning stages renal failure, after trying kd dog food by hills, which she wouldn’t eat, I started to give her whey with cottage cheese and white rice with olive oil. This was all while she was pregnant with 10 pups. My vet and other renal specialists that she consulted believed that she would probably die before their birth due to azotemia. Well she is currently as healthy as a horse and weighs about 87 pounds and is extremely active.
I also weaned all of her pups on whey protein, cottage cheese, and olive oil mix then with the the nutro lamb and rice. All of the pups grew up lean and muscular with beautiful coats. If you are going to breed dogs, better to have lean muscular as opposed to chunky fluff balls, there are some theories that heavy pups lead to increase incidence of hip dysplasia
I also feed my dog Nutro brand, the High Energy variety. He’s incredibly hyper… regular dog food doesn’t have enough calories and makes him really skinny (you can see his ribs). The Nutro stuff also has glucosamine and Omega-3 fatty acids in it. And he really seems to like the taste.
well i make sure my miniature pooodle gets 5000 calories a day, especially when i put him on a cycle. right now he is on tren/winnie, but im thinking about throwing some dbol in there as well. fluffy is by far the biggest badass teacup poodle that has ever lived, and has the best rhomboids and gastrocs that i have ever seen on a dog.
I feed my dog Wellness brand dog food, I get it from a holistic pet store but I have seen it a few other places as well. It is human grade lamb, no corn or by-products. He gets a mixture of the dry and canned. My vet says it is the best. When I got him he had alot of skin problems and allergies which completely subsided when he started eating a higher quality food.
I also feed my dogs Nutro, one’s on puppy (Manchester Terrier) the other lamb and rice (Black Lab). I experimented with making them a specialty diet of meat, oil and whole grains but read too much stuff about not getting the vitamin and mineral proportions right, (I think it was calcium to phosphorus or something. eggs need the shell, meat needs the bone, etc.) They both love the stuff and the look great.
Science Diet. It’s good enough for a pet and better than the typical crap (Old Roy, Purina, etc.). No table scraps or human food for my dog.
Evolution Organic Dogfood is good stuff. Go to www.vegancats.com
Your right about home recipes lacking in calcium and other vitamins and minerals. You have to be really careful when making your dog’s food that you don’t do more harm than good. A crushed tums in their food solves the calcium issue. For added vitamins and minerals I get a pre mixed forumla from a company called MEDICAL. My vet gets it for me. If I had to choose a premium brand I would go with Nutro’s. A friend of mine is a distributor for them. I have seen photos of their processing plant and it is as clean as any human food processing place.
I used to think science diet was good until I realized that the second or third ingredient is corn. my cat is young, very active, playful but is growing in size (no its not muscle)probably close to 15 lbs. she doesn’t overeat so i’m thinking its probably the food with all its fillers. I just bought some food brands called ‘Felidae’, ‘Wellness’, and ‘Azmira’ and there is no wheat or corn in it. As far as whey protein is concerned can you safely give this to cats? How much? thanks.
If it’s not known that there are definitely
ingredients present in large quantity after
the third ingredient, then it is not necessarly accurate to assume there must be a great deal of whatever is listed as the third ingredient.
If the first one or two ingredients are meat
products, isn’t a largely-carbohydrate ingredient necessarily going to come in second or third unless the idea is to have an all protein/fat diet? And what would be the point to having the first four (for example) products being meats? Why would a blend of four meats be better than one or two?
I do not know whether Hills is optimally formulated or not, but rather I’m saying that Erin’s criticism while at first sounding
logical doesn’t necessarily follow at all.