Currently I am feeding my 2 GSD's Nutro Max Large breed puppy for my male of 9 months and Nutro Max Large breed for my female of a year and a half. I was wondering if this is ok food? I did research several months back and it got really good reviews for dog food. I realize there's several posts on the all natural diet or BARF, but it seems like this stuff would be REALLY expensive and I just don't have the extra funds for that as well as everything else. I noticed Ed mentioned Hot Dogs in the dog obediance dvd I just got so I was wondering if these are ok to feed the dogs during training with the current food I give them? Currently when i'm training i'm giving them the small biscuits... but i'm not sure if this is really good for them either... though they seem to like them.
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I would not feed Nutro Max because it's preserved with ethoxoquin and collies, which I had, tend to be sensitive to that preservative. I did feed Abady's for awhile, but it was a 200 mile drive to find it and the only local distributor stopped carrying it. I would feed one of the kibbles on Ed's list or another of similar quality. Personally, I plan to feed primarily raw when I get my pup after the first of the year. But I do plan to feed some kibble and am leaning towards Timberwolf Organics brand.
Hot dogs make great training rewards as long as you use small pieces. If you're concerned by all the junk that's in most brands, just use one of the kosher brands. But, small pieces of dog biscuit is fine also. <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />
I was looking at the Honest Kitchen and that's what made me think the Raw diet... or dehydrated diet was so expensive, because with 2 dogs I think I would go through a 10 lb bucket in no more than 10 days or so per dog if that's correct. And if that's the case, that would bring my monthly dog food expenses to about $200, which is quite high imo.
I'm curious to those of you that currently feed your dogs, how much you are spending a week/month on the food? I have 2 GSD's (Male is about 70lbs atm and will probably reach 90, and the Female is about 65-70lbs).
I feed Canidae and am very happy with it. The cost is affordable, and the dogs do very well on it. Just recently, someone commented on one of my dog's coats. Small biscuits are okay, if they like them. You can get high end treats as well, which I like better than hot dogs. Also, if you have say, chicken for dinner, save some and cut it up- that will be wonderful for them <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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I think a dehydrator is going on my puppy wish list. I used to cook liver and dry it in the oven for treats. I also used Hebrew National hotdogs (no bad ingredients and the dogs were nice enough to share <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
I get Canidae at Pet Supplies Plus here in MI. The regular price is about $34/40#.
I feed one meal of kibble (like Canidae), and one meal raw. I get most of the meat at Wal-Mart, and it averages about $0.85 (chicken leg quarters, turkey necks, lamb ribs, pork necks, beef heart and kidney). My dogs are 30# and 38#, and get 8-10 oz meat for their raw meal.
Right now I figure I spend about $1.25/day for feeding both dogs this day.
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