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Our labrador used to eat anything, no need to ask her twice.

If you eat a healthy diet I would cook too much and set aside some of your food for dog. Being leader of the pack I would expect the dog to follow your example. If they turn down human food after a while of being presented with that then I'd suspect something more to it and see a vet. Probably just bored of the dog food if it has become too predictable that is what they're getting all the time. Maybe buy a fair few different types of dog food and alternate between them more. Perhaps try a treats toy that they have to do something to get food to get dispensed too so they have to work a bit to get stuff mixed with play.
 
My labs a picky sod as well, although eventually he took to Wainwrights from the really cheap stuff the previous owners had him on that he constantly had the runs on, but I've tried changing to Wainwrights grain free and he wasn't impressed.

Its almost a relief to read above other labs are the same and dont just eat every thing they see, he'll have food sat in his bowl all day untouched.

I know friends Labs / Goldies that eat everything and anything, all the scraps regardless, whilst mine will turn his nose up at Veg , Potatoes etc , anything not meat basically.

In the end its worked out well, he's very slim etc, so cant complain.
 
Really.... a Lab that's a fussy eater? Never known such a thing. Our black Lab (deceased) used to eat anything. Remember peeling carrots and the peelings wouldn't hit the ground. She got a strange habit of licking a patch of wallpaper. We tried to stop her licking the wallpaper by spreading thick coleman's hot mustard over it but she just licked that off. :/ If the cat was stupid enough to leave food and walk away from its bowl, that would go.
 
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We have 3 GSD's, 1 springer and 4 cats.

All dogs, since birth have raw food diet (Oldest GSD is now 5) - they love it. Springer can be a bit funny at times depending on the type, cats try to eat it too and sometimes have a bit with their regular food.

Looks and smells disgusting, we buy it in bulb from a specialist and store it in a massive chest freezer in the garage.

You can have:

Minced chicken
Minced chicken and tripe
Lamb
Lamb and veg

I'm sure they do others but the mrs gets these, including frozen bones and small packets of raw kidney, heart etc which we give them as a treat.
 
HoneyBadger said:
We have 3 GSD's, 1 springer and 4 cats.

All dogs, since birth have raw food diet (Oldest GSD is now 5) - they love it. Springer can be a bit funny at times depending on the type, cats try to eat it too and sometimes have a bit with their regular food.

Looks and smells disgusting, we buy it in bulb from a specialist and store it in a massive chest freezer in the garage.

You can have:

Minced chicken
Minced chicken and tripe
Lamb
Lamb and veg

I'm sure they do others but the mrs gets these, including frozen bones and small packets of raw kidney, heart etc which we give them as a treat.
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Ha! You think that's disgusting? My dogs have been raw fed for decades, and generally that means whole rabbits (skin/fur and all), whole birds, pig and sheep heads, whole tripes, trotters, tails, whole fish... The dogs are as fit as the proverbial butcher's dogs and we've only seen a vet twice in 20 years; once for a post-partum check and once to PTS a 17 year old who developed canine Parkinson's over the last months of his life. We do get funny looks sometimes when unloading their food though... :D

Make sure you give plenty of raw meaty bones (not bare bones or cooked bones), as the texture of the food that's as important as the type of food (for periodontal and systemic health). See Raw Meaty Bones by Dr Tom Lonsdale for info. Your cats would do fine on a 100% raw diet also btw. No more urinary crystals.
 
Bare minimum cost of decent dog food is £40 for 15kg really, you can't buy decent dog food in the shops.

Mine was fussy when young so I added wet to dry dog food and never had a problem since.

I'd recommend a combination of Markus Muhle black Angus dry and lukullus or Rocco wet from zooplus as a decent affordable combination.
 
Also remember there is vat on dog food, so after pricing up decent dog food with no grains you'll see that those special offers on chickens you get aren't that much more expensive for other occasions.
 
My sister feeds her dogs raw. It just looks like really bloody mince.

It stinks and makes a right mess. It's a decent cheap method sure, providing you have an easy source and somewhere to store it all. I just prefer less hassle, also the wet food I use smells of corned beef, not ranky bloody offal.
 
Also look who manufacture the major dog food brands. Mars and Nestle, gives you a good indication of what they are. Repackaged sugar and grains, like everything else they make.

http://www.allaboutdogfood.co.uk

All that science plan food is crap. My sister runs a cattery and half the cats that come in are on this special diet food. It's a total con pushed by the vets for commission.

Recently I've seen many of them switching over to another special one, can't remember which, possibly purina. These are cats from all over, from different vets all switching brands at the same time. Clearly offering better brown envelopes. There's no science involved, nor is the animals health put first (look at the science plan ingredients remembering they're listed in order of largest to smallest constituent)
 
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I would put money on most of you spoiling them. Giving then the odd bit of toast etc. I have 3 dogs, lab, jack Russell and a westie. None of them are fussy. If they dont eat their meal when given to them, it will get taken away and they wont eat till their next serving. Also, dont go off serving size on the back, play it by ear.

We feed ours Acana, no need to change flavours, they are dogs and dont think "oo i fancy chicken today".
 
If it's being fussy, try adding something to sweeten the deal. Small amounts of grated cheese, or you can make a 'gravy' from Marmite with water to pour on it.
 
My nearly 6 year old lab is getting fussy. Eats anything we have, doesn't like mustard or Tabasco though :p We feed him on Skinners F&T 23, have done since puppy (had the puppy version until he was one year old), recently hes been just sitting at his bowl of Skinners looking at me saying,

"that it dude?:confused:"

I had to basically get on my hands and knees begging him to eat it. Now I just squirt some tomato sauce on or gravy from our dinners if we had some.
 
HoneyBadger said:
Trust me, it's not cheap.
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£1 a day for 2 x Vizsla's I believe. This is roughly half the price I pay for a decent wet and dry.

It's as cheap as your butcher sells minced offal for I guess. She lives in the countryside so probably gets it pretty cheap (butcher is a big processor with front desk kinda thing), and I'm sure other butchers charge as much as they think they can get away with since it seems to be the latest 'in' thing. (no offence, but it is)

It's not like there is a general price for minced offal you can compare it to. Oh yeah and bags of chicken carcasses, yummy...
 
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ScoTTyBEEE said:
Bare minimum cost of decent dog food is £40 for 15kg really, you can't buy decent dog food in the shops.

Mine was fussy when young so I added wet to dry dog food and never had a problem since.

I'd recommend a combination of Markus Muhle black Angus dry and lukullus or Rocco wet from zooplus as a decent affordable combination.
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Your buying from the wrong places if your paying £40 for a bag of decent dog food? lukullus is less then £29 ;)
 
ScoTTyBEEE said:
Also remember there is vat on dog food, so after pricing up decent dog food with no grains you'll see that those special offers on chickens you get aren't that much more expensive for other occasions.
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Some of the decent smaller brands avoid this as the food is marketed for working dogs which means no VAT. Our Irish setter eats Millies Wolfheart kibble mixed with a bit of either tinned dog for or some of our left overs if they're suitable.

She was fed on a raw diet as a pup but wouldn't touch shop bought raw food so we moved to good kibble as it's much easier. We chose Millies because it's grain and chicken free and produced locally near Skipton.
 
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