But a dog fed on a barf diet would I think have more than 37% protein in it's food. I'm another one that feeds Orijen and my pair are thriving on it.

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With my dog not being able to walk more than a few hundred metres he went up to near 25kg just feeding the recommended amounts brought him back down to an even 20kg within 6 months ... the improvement in his health is drastic no other words for it. Super Beam

Can anyone direct me to a site which has the results of these studies that say a dog has to have low protein, I keep reading about it on forums like this but I've not actually read anything official on the subject, there seem to be differing views and the only studies I can find are based on rats which isn't really compareable lol.

To me the major part of a dogs diet should be meat which is naturally high in protein so I don't see how 37% could be harmful, I think a barf diet is around 55%.

There is a page on the Orijen site that has a list of info and articles, Also
Focusing On Protein - Nutrition Related - ThePetCenter.com - The Internet Animal Hospital


Purina Research Report 1997 – Vol. 0, VET 6115

Judt a few I have from my own research

just to say you have to be careful of ones produced by competing food companies, as this will have a degree of 'taint' in their findings

I did have Cybi on purina and some of you will remember how bad i had it with biting and aggressive behavior (purina was what the breeder had him on)

I've changed him onto James wellbeloved and he absolutely adores it he's having the duck and rice one at the moment - he's calmed down and is now such a lovely dog - the only problem we are having now is re training him to go to the toilet in the garden - Also his poo's are HUGEEE lol i mean massive and he's only 14 weeks they are about a foot long lol.

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I find that Arden Grange is a really good dog food. It is a little more expensive though - But they will deliver direct to your door, and if you buy the big 15kg sacks of food, it actually works out at quite a reasonable cost.

you might be feeding him a little too much... its true what a difference a good food will do to the nature of a dog. My prefered is Burns, love the stuff for my spaniel

hi my cav king charles is only a small dog and we fed him bakers puppy as its small we tried him on thee adult and the chunks where to big he would not eat them
i want to wean him of bakers as what people keep saying and it got to much additives
what can you recommend for him for small biscuits meal
would burns be ok
thanks

Burns would be fine, as would Arden Grange or Orijen.

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