Bonnie, our sheltie, tends to be very fussy with her food and fairly skinny, so someone recommended adding tripe to her Iams food (We changed to that because it has small chunks and she will actually eat it!) She loves the tripe, but then has difficulties going to the toilet,(straining repeatedly without effect) and when she finally manages to to it is very soft and she gets it all over her skirts and stinks to high heaven. We tried it for nearly a week, but still no better. Any suggestions?

mine are on the raw and doing fab, they had tripe for the first time today and loved it!!!! but oh my!!!!! don't it half smell, the hubby was nearly sick and the smell seemed to waft where ever they went lol. and this eve they have just attempted to eat their poo, must still smell of the tripe

Hi i would take her off iams as its not a good food,try burns,nutro or natures choice.

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i would get wainwrights or james welbeloved both very good soak in warm water if she won,t eat it dry my two look very well onit ,most pet shops stock j welbeloved pets at home stock both of them put the food down for 15 minutes then take it away until next day she will soon learn to eat it at a certain time each day good luck gazt

Iams also test on animals! Evil!

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We fed our last 2 dogs on James Wellbeloved and they both lived until they were 15, and looked well on it. The main reason we gave Bonnie Iams was that she seemed to like chewing small chunks. Her breeder gave her moistened down Pedigree puppy, but she was not to keen on that either, and we tried her on both Burns and James Wellbloved before opting for Iams. Mainly because our cats have always thrived on it. In fact the vet complimented us on how youthful they were for their 15 years!

Will try James Wellbeloved again. Maybe she will like it better now she is a bit older. Should I give her any tripe at all, do you think? I was wondering about giving her a very small amount in the evenings as she likes it so much.

Thanks for your help.

Louise

Raw raw raw!!!!!

I feed raw, but I'm pretty flexible, which suits me and my dog just fine. She's old, teeth are too worn to chew bones except for mutton flap and brisket; most meat I feed is raw (a variety, what ever I can get cheaply), organ meats about 2x weekly, cooked vegies and rice, eggs, yoghurt and cottage cheese, fresh fruit titbits. I give 1 x fish oil capsule daily, and added olive or safflower oil if meat is too lean.
My dog is very healthy and energetic at age 16. Two years ago I was on the point of having her put down because of numerous health problems which I thought were just old age. I changed her diet instead (stopped feeding her commercial "junk food") and she has never looked back!
I'm a passionate "Real Food" convert now.

My Dog when i was 15 died eating raw fish... dunno where he got it.. but the vet said he ate fish...

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I'm just interested as I currently feed my dog on a wet food with no additives etc and am very pleased with it but would like a bit of info. on feeding raw from anyone who does feed there dogs raw.
How much and what types of meats and raw veg do u feed?
Is it harder to prepare?
How does it compare price-wise etc...
Thanks

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