ND is my preference for dog food,but im so tempted to try WW,it looks a very reasonable food and price,but the feeding guide "i dont think is enough"!

Feeding Guide (approximate per day)

Small Breeds (5-12kg): (Daily Feed in Trays) 1/4-1/3 tray;
Medium Breeds (12-25kg):.33–3/4 tray;
Large Breeds (25-45kg): 3/4-1 tray;
Giant Breeds (45-70kg): 1-2 trays.

My wee friend weighs in at 25kg,this would be 1 or less day,this seems to me such a little amount!

If i were to feed this,i would have to feed 2 trays per day,IMO,i think my wee friend would fade away on the recommended feeding guide!

High fiber is so much higher than ND and most other wet foods,so this may mean feed less!

Anyone recommend this food ,and feeding guide?

IMO the food guide is WAY OUT,per kg!!

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I know mumtoheidi has spoken to PAH about the feeding guides and they say it is more concentrated hence the need for less and her dog is less hungry on this than ND although she found the high fibre caused constipation. I feed my dog this at at 8kg feed around half a tray a day. Any more than this and she gets runny poo ( overfeeding)! Her weight is good as is her coat. Output nice and firm meaning anal glands are not getting so full.
Guides are just that. Why don't you try and see how your dog is on say 1 tray a day and adjust if required.

I use thisoccasionally -but always seem to slip back to the ND
Mine have two packs a day plus some dry
Oneweights 35kg the other 31kg

I just use it as a tasty incentive to get Tummel to eat in the morning. He gets half a tray/tin and some kibble, then for dinner it's all kibble the other half goes in a bag and in a cool place ready for the next day.

I have both WW and naturediet and if i'm completely honest i prefer WW. ND's texture is really thick and quite dry compared to WW trays which look and feel like very good pate plus WW smells nicer in my opinion.

Mine had this for quite some time. I found the RDA a bit adrift altho I think a couple here feed it at the RDA with no problems. P@H reckon it's a v concentrated food hence the need to feed less. As you say, prob down to the high fibre content. Comparing the ingredient list to ND NH etc, I wondered what contributed to that amount of fibre (more than chappie) but cant get an answer from them.

I feed 2/3 tray a day to my 8K terrier. (she has 100% wet) The RDA is 1/3-1/4 but that isnt enough. She would probably have a full tray of ND a day.

She used to have just WW, then I introduced some brands from Zooplus. We went on holiday and for convenience, I took just WW. This time it made her constipated so I alternate it with other brands again.

I think it's a v good food and like chappie, v good for resolving tummy upsets. The WW tins, they dont have the high levels of fibre and the RDA is in keeping with ND etc.

ND is the better food in my opinion altho the last time I tried mine on it, it went straight thro :-( and of course they need to nail the packaging issues once and for all.

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My staffy is 25kg. He gets 1 tray of WW a day with 100g of Simpsons kibble. I know you don't like kibble. But I aimed at feeding him 1.5 trays a day, it went through him, but I didn't feel the 1 tray was enough either. So added the kibble.

Bailey also has 1 tray with robbies mixer added. Neither have lost or gained weight whilst they've been on it, and it's been a good few months now.

I'd try him on 1.5 trays a day if you do decide to try it, since obviously you'd not feed the kibble.

I honestly thought the food way way out with the feeding guide at first, and it may be a little stingy, but I honestly feel feeding a 25kg staffy two trays would be over feeding.

Obviously it's just a guide and I thought the way you did when first feeding it, but I'd say if you do try it, go with a tray and a half and take away/add as you feel is needed.

I'm not actually a big fan of ND. Never had anything but packaging issues with it (although I know thousands don't), the dogs weren't really fussed and it's more expensive than WW.

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Our 28kg labrador who drops weight easy as pie gets 1.5 trays of that a day if its all he's on. Two trays he doesn't put weight on but his number 2's go soft and he definitely isn't excessively hungry on 1.5 trays.

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Wainwrights is a pets at home own label

its made for them by Forthglade, but is not as good as the standard Forthgalde product, as it contains much more rice, and less meat

Nature diet is a much better food, and if you shop at an independent, much cheaper, as PAH increase the price, to make their own food look better value

Our cocker has 1/4 tray per day mixed with James Wellbeloved kibble! Not sure on weight of kibble as I do it buy eye
She loves all the flavours

I love this food marley is fed ww trays and I give him half a tray per day he weighs 7kg when I stared feeding ww he weighed closer to 6 that was about 6 months ago. He is now in such lovely condition! I wouldn't feed anything else, I have tried ND but ww is practically the same and i find it works out cheaper, either are fantastic in my opinion.

just compared ND chicken trays with ww Turkey trays and ND contains 60% chicken where as WW contains 65% seems the same with all the flavours, also i cant think why all ND has 8% carrot in them??? does it help them see in the dark????

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