What do you feed your pets?
 

I'm talking dogs and cats here.

Dry food?
Wet food?
Standard brand name (e.g., Purina)?
Premium food?
Veternarian-sold food?
Table scraps?
Raw food?
Homemade food?
Supplements?

With all the kerfluffle with the pet food recall recently, just wondered if it mattered to you, if you pay the extra money/go the extra mile to make your own or buy premium food, or what.

Ollie our Boston terrier eats Diamond Adult , good food , he likes it , his coat is shiney and his poop is infrequent but productive .

Oh and he is the Official plate cleaner ;)

Goats are on Russian and Autumn Olive.

Dog food. Purina I think? Or the one that starts Eu...i forgot the whole name. Dry food yeah.

All our animals get dry food which is their staple. We buy good quality dry food because a) they need less of it to fulfill their nutritional needs, and b) because it does actually make them healthier. Also makes their droppings easier to clean up.

We suppliment their diets with fresh raw meat and bones and they also get table scraps.

All in all, it's a battle to keep out pets from getting too fat.

Our dogs get Purina Senior diet in the AM, and then again in the PM with a treat of Alpo (in Gravy) on top. Lately though, that's been suspect, so we have been checking cans carefully.

The cats get Purina Dental Diet mixed with Purina Indoor cat formula.

And everyone gets to participate in Pup-corn night :)

My cat is 15, he usually eats Purina One Adult, unfortunately, his molars are almost gone on one side (a recent problem) and so I have been feeding him canned food too, Fancy Feast mostly flaked only, he doesn't really like mushy stuff. This food scare has affected how I buy his food, and kind of reminds me of the Tylenol problem (because I thoroughly read all labels again and check out the can for tampering, not because I think it was a malicious act against pets)
Interesting question.

The bodies of my enemies.

Eukanuba is on the recall list.

I use Innova here, high in the quality.

UT, where do you find Innova?

but isn't the recall only for a certain type of canned food? I think that poster was talking about dry

The dog I inherited (he was part of the deal when I got married) eats dry food -- whatever it is that Costco carries (because my wife works there.)

I would not "go the extra mile" for that dog.

No pet of mine will be a canned-food snob unless that pet has an income that would pay for that stuff.

My cats get Iams dry, but I'm seriously thinking of switching them over to canned. Too much carbohydrate in the dry -- cats are obligate carnivores. As an almost-diabetic myself, I'm worried about their metabolism.

Wife and I have two Terriers (Lady and Sassy).

We feed them a combination. Wet (Purina), dry (can't think of the name right now). Then they get other things like raw potato, carrots, brocolli. They do rather well with those kinds of food.

Of course, since my mother moved in with us a couple years ago, she has tried to feed them things like pizza crust, spaghetti and other things that I would prefer she NOT feed them.

I've been feeding my cats Iams for 14 years. I know its crap, but they like it. The vet convinced me to buy raw meat/fish food from him because its so much better, but the cats wouldn't eat it.
They also like sardines, tuna, salmon etc. from a can, and Banzai likes alfala sprouts, asparagus, peppers, fruit...

Dunno Dag, I find Innova at two pet stores around here, but I notice they aren't the big chain pet stores but rather little boutiqu-y places.

What do you do when you run short of enemies?

Sorry, the dog/cat qualification was too late. We feed the cockatiels pellet food, or as I casually refer to it, "Purina Cockatiel Chow." (No, it's not really made by Purina.)

Although I was unpacking and opening a new bag of it last night, and we had ordered a couple other things along with it, including a new balsa wood hanging toy that they love destroying. As I was looking at it, I told Mrs. Dallas that I wasn't so sure they had given it the best name--Bird Kabob!

Cat's systems are really interesting. I read that since cats have been domesticated for 1000's of years to be mousers, the best cat food now replicates the nutrition provided by a whole mouse (not a lot of carbs in a mouse, I guess). And they don't need to eat oranges, because a cat's body makes its own vitamin C. :D

I was feeding Bosco the Nutro brand dry food, but got nervous and switched to Solid Gold Katz-n-Flocken. He seems to like it better, anyway. I also give him a half-can per day of California Natural canned food. And plenty of Feline Greenies cat cookies.

I used to give my cats whiskas vita-bites which they loved, till my vet told me it's like giving them McDonalds every meal.

Since I changed them to better quality feed they really have had an improvement in health and I just have to say again how much more pleasant it is that their poos are smaller and less smelly. I really can't stress that enough. ;)

We have three cats, and they all have different kinds of raw meat they like. One likes fish, the other likes ordinary meat, and the other just goes crazy for roo mince.

sorry, but cats are not domesticated animals. They just fool us into thinking that.

And . . . roo mince? You feed your cats KANGAROO? :eek:

As long as he doesn't try to eat ME, I'll consider my kitty domesticated...enough.

Junior gets leftovers, Sausage Biscuits, hash browns, the cheapest hamburgers I can get, home fries (French Fries are his favorite) and sometimes I will raid the buffet line for him. Turkey puts him to sleep! :D

He also loves beef gravy over his dry dog food, whatever it is this month. I almost never give him canned dog food. Once in a while he will get at the cats' food before they do and then he eats Fancy Feast.

And he's NOT fat at all. I walk him three or four times a day (or HE walks ME) which is good for both of us. We wrestle from time to time ("Kill the doggie!") and play with his ever-present ropes. The tennis ball gets squeezed some but we can't chase it very well in the truck and there's NO WAY he's getting off the leash in a truck stop.

Brian

Ack, I gave my cat turkey once, and he slept for a loooong time. Poor thing tried to wake up a couple of times, but was too groggy. The next time I offered it to him, he wouldn't touch it.

cloud...yep. they love it. ;)

We have farm cats, so they get whatever is going and whatever they find. I do give them Iams Dry food.

The Dev Rexs get some wanky expensive Dry food and *Boingo Mince*, thats 2yr old speak for Roo Mince.

The dogs get Chicken Necks (1.2kgs) and dry food (dont recall the brand)...plus scraps and they eat everything from mashed tator to peas n gravy. The local butcher always throws in some bones n offcuts when I go in, so thats their weekly treat.

you have Devon Rexes? cool!

Dry Purina. Very absolutely rarely table foods. IF they ever get table foods they only get them in their dish and at dinner time, never from the table and never from one's plate.

My cats eat 9-lives indoor formula. And they each get a can of the wet version too when I have a chance to give it to them. When my cat Zeus was a kitten he was weaned way too early. My sister gave him to be as a birthday present and claimed he was 8 weeks old, but I am almost positive he was 4 weeks at the most. He wouldn't eat anything I gave him until I bought the iams canned food. He would eat the gravy off the top of the food and get some food with it.

I had tried several brands of kitten food and the "cat milk" they sell. None of it worked. So he got used to the wet food and once he was older he would eat dry food as well. He freaks out if I don't give him wet food every day so I just go ahead and give it to him. All of my other cats before this were fed only dry food. But I am glad I gave him the wet food because I don't think he would have survived if I hadn't.

I inherited my sisters cat, and as I can't feed just one wet food she eats it now as well. But are 9-lives brand. I was feeding them Pet Pride but they stopped eating it, but would still complain when they wanted wet food so I switched. About a month later was the pet food recall, which included pet pride wet food. ( I have fed them the 9-lives dry food [indoor formula] for over six months now.) I think my cats sensed that the food wasn't right, and I am so glad I listened!!

Edit: The reason I fed him iams when he was a kitten was it came in the small cans, so I wasn't wasting as much each time I fed him. When I got bigger I started feeding him pet pride.

Guess I'm not domesticated.

My 2 get Nutro and Max Cat. They are bright-eyed, healthy, and have beautiful fur and long whiskers. The vet always comments on their lustrous fur.

I am dealing with the recall by feeding them the dry Nutro, which is not on the banned list, and I have been trying to find a canned food for them to replace the canned they got in the mornings. It is a struggle so far as there is not much choice. They do not get table food and do not have snacks. Their weight is normal.

Yep - 2 of them. They are...umm...entertaining and havent been without ISSUES!!

so I see. Have they settled down?

They are now outdoor cats and thats works for all of us ;)

The grey was the main culprit and I moved her outside straight away, then the black (daughter) started doing it as well.

Mother and Daughter HATE each other now...cats!!

I feed pets to alligators.
I love Florida!

:rimshot:

Here is a place you can order all-natural European style pet food mix, a grain mix that you mix with meat or other stuff.

Here is a place you can get freeze dried salmon cubes or chicken livers for your kitties.

These places were recommended by a book called Cat Be Good, and although I haven't tried them yet, I very well might.

Lawyer bits.

2 dogs. I feed Freds brand+ table scraps. $7.?? on sale for 40 lbs. 2 years ago it was $4.99 on sale.

bah, you beat me to it! :lol:

Mine get James Wellbeloved dried food in the mornings - it contains the least additives of any I can buy within walking distance of my flat. I'm not happy about the carbohydrate content though (most of the varieties are something-and-rice).

In the evenings they get raw meat and bones, often chicken these days as I no longer work near the market in order to vary it as much as I should.

Trouble is, one of my cats likes to sit and watch the other eat, and if I feed them a reasonable amount for 2, 1 gets 2/3 of it. Neither is fat (they are SO active) but it worries me that my carefully balanced menu is being tinkered with. I've taken to hand feeding Dylan in the living room, but he only likes titbits (scraps of cooked meat or cheese etc). Once I've got his attention I hand him some raw meat and like as not he'll drop it and wander off to watch Diz. He does like raw meat and bones - he'll unfortunately drag whatever is leftover around the flat and eat it in front of me (not great if I've decided I want to go and read in bed).

Cat trial this weekend! Taking the boys to London to meet my soon-to-be housemate's cat. I may have some photos of very sorry cats next week...

Four, count them, four cats......and we feed them nothing but leftover Chinese.

Fairly elderly lady cat, 13 years,rescued after two years living rough, with a gastric stricture so she can't digest dry or lumpy food, and sadly minus almost all her teeth lives on fresh fish steamed and then mashed with Cat Milk. She is in wonderful shape and loves life.

I used to feed my Border Collie / Cocker Spaniel dry Eukanuba but since the pet food contamination, and because Eukanuba was on the list of "Possibles", I switched her back to her old brand, Pedigree (Dry)

What's in your pet food?
 

Long, informative, and pretty nauseating article on the pet food industry:

What's Really in Pet Food

Credit for this article goes to the Animal Protection Institute. Pretty good site, too, with tips for choosing commercial food, and sample homemade recipes.

I predict good money-making opportunities for small-batch, boutique pet food.

Hmm. I wonder how hard it would be to get into that?