We feed JWB and Monty loves it!

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Is 5 months too young in your opinion to switch to the Burns diet?

Do you mix the three flavours you buy or feed alternatively from each?

Do you soak the food in water first or feed it dry?

Do you feed additional things such as tripe, Natures Menu pouches etc.?

Hi Magnus,
I do not mix the flavours, they only get one type at a time, don't want to have three bags open at once! I only buy different flavours so newfs don't get fedup of only one flavour. mind you they love it so much they probaboy wouldnt get fedup with one flavour!
I do not soak in water, just make sure plenty of fresh water is always available. To be honest i have about 7 bowls of water available (outside).
I do not feed any additional food, i am very strict on this. They actually do not need anything extra ontop of their feed. But if there is left over veg, rice etc from our food they will get this (as long as there is no salt added)

Burns also cater for puppies, they have different varieties available. I would not hesitate to feed my pup on Burns in future. Obviouosly you would have to introduce it very gradually. But if i were you, i would actually give Burns a ring on 0800 018 1890 and they would be able to advise you what puppy foods they have.
Hope this helps

Yes do ring Burns they are very helpful also they will send you samples

ours are on jwb but i am thinking of changing to AG because it has no added salt and also because they operate a no animal testing policy. (JWB is now part of the pedigree group who dont have a non animal test policy). I wouldnt feed IAMs or Euk because of their policies.

I have been told the AG may make them hyper - has anyone found this?

Having read the posts i am going to look at Burns as well as low protein looks like a good thing for my pair.
claire:-}

I have just bought a bag of Wainrights, I went for JWB but the girl in the shop said it was jsut as good and it had the same ingredients. Has anyone ever used this.

No but we are hopefully gona change our akita to this when we get him(obviously change it gradually), looks like a good quality food for a good price, can you let me know how you and your dog get on with this??

i did some research about it on the net and it has had some really good reviews.

Our Chessie nearly died, his stomach lining was rejecting all food as if it was poison, the only one he could tolerate seemed to be tinned Chappie. He can now tolerate Ocean white fish JWB. We can't mess about with his diet as he can get very ill if his stomach rejects anything. so I have to recommend JWB

Yes
I will let you know how we go, He has had some mixed in his food at tea time and at supper and also I have used the wainrights as a treat and he has eaten every bit. I am going to add a bit more tomorrow. I got the Turkey and rice one.

Hi All,

Our 8 month old Dobermann Monty is currently on the large breed puppy Orijen dog food.
When I first had him at 8 weeks he was on Eukanuba, which I switched to Arden Grange large breed puppy for the reasons normally associated with Eukanuba and Iams etc.
He was fine on the AG, and I started feeding it with tripe and turkey neck chunks to try and build his weight up as he was starting to look very skinny. This worked a treat for the last 3 months but then his poo's seemed to be getting worse and worse so switched to the Orijen and stopped giving raw food.
His poo's are now very good and he seems to like the food (he has only been on it for a week).
If his weight starts to drop off again then I will start to give raw a couple of days a week on top of this.

The Orijen is expensive but from all the research and good things I have heard I think it could be a winner! It comes vaccum packed in foil bags and smells great!

In my opinion Burns is the best I feed my 13 gsd 11 labx and my 17 month rottweiler on burns and they all are looking good. Another plus in my opinion is that burns are against animal testing and none of their products are tested on animals where upon its the complete reverse for science diet.