For the dog's health i'd stay with plain fresh meat and mixer. Cheaper and i know exactly what is in their food. Have a quick read on my last post.

I think it depends alot on what suits the dog - the dog is bound to have the final say! I don't know much about raw feeding that lots of people have mentioned, but I know the nutrient levels and calorific values would have to be thought out to ensure a balanced diet is given. I would worry about bones and how they could cause injury and what comes out the other end too!! My two are quite happy on their complete Arden Grange anyway.

I've found a brilliant new food called joe jacks. You can get it through their website - called joesnaturalpetstore - and my lab has never looked healthier. I have also just found out that they sell their wet food through Tesco, but don't understand why the dry isn't there as well. This is great as I can get extra trays when I forget to order

A very lovely lady at Arden Grange sent me some samples for Ted - have been slowly introducing them to his food, and so far so good!!

So what's the opinion on the muesli type cereals?

I used to feed Vitalin muesli type food to a previous dog and he did reasonably well on it, though to be honest I'm not sure he actually loved the food (!) but I think there are differences between these and the extruded foods and it's down to digestibility - muesli foods tend to be wheat based and wheat is not as digestible as cereals such as rice or maize, and I believe that the cooking and extruding process also makes the carbohydrate and protein more digestible.
As a result you generally have to feed more muesli food and get more poo out the other end!

I would always say that Burns was the best however expensive. I have now started using Wainwirghts and my GSD's seem to love it and they look very healthy on it.

I have been changing all my dogs food to try to get them on the same one as I had 5 dogs on 4 different foods, I have at last got one that agrees with them all - Skinners Muesli & cheap too which comes in handy with 2 large breeds & 2 giant breeds that are still growing

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Just weighing in with my two euros... bought a sack of Beta yesterday... chicken flavour IIRC. The furry lil' git wolfed down a huge bowlful then had hiccups for half an hour. Seems she likes it

There isn't a good dry food in my opinion.

I feed all mine a prey model raw diet.