senior dog food

lozza84 · #1 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 09:03 PM

whats the best senior dog food out there ? this is for an old collie. thanks for advice

#2 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 09:07 PM

What are you feeding at the moment and do you need one to help with weight loss?

lozza84 · #3 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:16 PM

not my dog but hes on winalot wet stuff

no not really for weight loss just condition if there is such a food.

sequeena · #4 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:22 PM

Hi there! I have a collie cross who is extremely fussy but she will happily eat Nature Diet and Chappie wet

She's 13 btw!

lozza84 · #5 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:26 PM

oh great i might try that then, its my mums dog and his coat looks awful just now and im sure that food is not helping matters

thanks sequeena what about dry stuff ? like a complete food, my pups are on RC and both love it, is there a senior for that ?

sequeena · #6 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by lozza84

oh great i might try that then, its my mums dog and his coat looks awful just now and im sure that food is not helping matters

thanks sequeena what about dry stuff ? like a complete food, my pups are on RC and both love it, is there a senior for that ?

Candy doesn't like dry though I do sneak in a handful with the wet and she doesn't notice

I give her either Arden Grange senior or chappie because she can get a dicky tummy.

I just checked the RC website and they do a mature food.

Medium Mature Dog Food | Royal Canin

I don't like their ingredients though;

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Dehydrated poultry meat, maize, rice, wheat flour, animal fats, maize flour, wheat, hydrolysed animal proteins, beet pulp, fish oil, vegetable oils (soya and borage), yeasts, fructo-oligo-saccharides, minerals, sodium phosphate, yeast extract (source of manno-oligo-saccharides), egg powder, grape extracts (source of polyphenols), green tea extracts (source of polyphenols).

AG senior...

Natural Premium Senior Dog Food from Arden Grange

And their ingredients;

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Chicken Meal* (min 23%), Whole Grain Rice (min 23%), Whole Grain Maize, Dried Brewers Yeast, Beet Pulp, Chicken Fat*, Fresh Chicken (min 5%), Egg Powder, Fish Meal*, Linseed, Fish Oil*, Minerals, Vitamins, Nucleotides, Prebiotic FOS, Prebiotic MOS, Cranberry Extract, Chondroitin Sulphate, Glucosamine Sulphate, MSM, Yucca Extract, L- Carnitine. * Preserved with mixed tocopherols and rosemary extract.

It's probably a hell of a lot cheaper than RC too! If you're going to pay the price for something good I would go with AG. If he has a sensitive tummy I would probs go for chappie

lozza84 · #7 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by sequeena

Candy doesn't like dry though I do sneak in a handful with the wet and she doesn't notice

I give her either Arden Grange senior or chappie because she can get a dicky tummy.

I just checked the RC website and they do a mature food.

Medium Mature Dog Food | Royal Canin

I don't like their ingredients though;

AG senior...

Natural Premium Senior Dog Food from Arden Grange

And their ingredients;

It's probably a hell of a lot cheaper than RC too! If you're going to pay the price for something good I would go with AG. If he has a sensitive tummy I would probs go for chappie

ok thanks! i will do some research before i advise my parents

you're collie x is gorgeous

mums dog is simliar except hes long haired and hes 17 !!!!

did u know collies can live til thier 20 yrs old !!

sequeena · #8 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:36 PM

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Originally Posted by lozza84

ok thanks! i will do some research before i advise my parents

you're collie x is gorgeous

mums dog is simliar except hes long haired and hes 17 !!!!

did u know collies can live til thier 20 yrs old !!

Aw thank you!!

Oh wow he's doing well isn't he??

I've no doubt Candy will live until about 20 she's so full of energy she's like a 2 year old!

lozza84 · #9 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by sequeena

Aw thank you!!

Oh wow he's doing well isn't he??

I've no doubt Candy will live until about 20 she's so full of energy she's like a 2 year old!

ah i hope so ! and i hope mums dog does too

Road_Hog · #10 (**permalink**) 11-01-2010, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by lozza84

whats the best senior dog food out there ? this is for an old collie. thanks for advice, his coat looks awful just now and im sure that food is not helping matters

To be honest most senior food isn't a lot (if any) different to ordinary food. The idea of senior food was that it had less calories and protein than normal food, as an older dog didn't need so much of either (on the assumption that it is less active). Unfortunately most of the run of the mill brands that you buy in the supermarket (you've named one in your post) have so little protein/meat (the minimum legal requirement) that they're perfectly okay from a protein/meat content for older dogs anyway. As far as the dog's coat goes, that is probably down to the quality of the ingredients in standard dog food. Are we talking greasy matted coat that smells doggy? If so, better quality food will stop the doggy smell, the greasyness and the matting and you will end up with a dog that you can pet/smooth and don't need to wash your hands immediately afterwards to get rid of the greasy feeling.

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