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Feeding canned

2.9K views 11 replies 8 participants last post by  domika  
#1 ·
Does anyone feed canned food? There are tons of discussions about dry but I can hardly find any about canned. I'm looking at perhaps doing half dry, for the am meal, and half canned for the pm meal.

I feed fromm dry now plus my own homemade topper but it has really made my PWD and chihuahua portly!

I want to try fromm gold. Years ago I used pet guard cans but they have wheat in them and I don't feed gluten. What do you use and how/ why do u like it?

My sister uses California natural... Dry in the morning and cans at night and her terriers are doing well. I've fed all kids f other foods. Just curious to hear about others using cans.
 
#3 ·
Great to know!
Those are just exactly the 2 flavors I ordered from chewy yesterday, a case each.

I'm going to try one meal dry (with water added) and one meal canned and see how they go. The chihuahua is so negligable in size/amount of what she eats, plus the fact that she has only 9 remaining teeth, I may do all canned with her...
 
#5 ·
Even though I am a raw feeder I do keep a few cans on hand for emergencies (earthquake etc) and I use locally made canned by Zeal and Kiwipeak. They don't have any fillers but do contain veges. But probably cheaper for you to use USA made products.
It is very sloppy though which I don't like and my although my dog eats it happily, because he has a parrot mouth he has a bit of trouble picking it up in his bowl.
 
#7 ·
Cookie the chi now has tiny poops on canned! Wow! I'm waiting on my order of fromm to arrive but I picked up some cans of newmans own (which I am a fan of for my cat) so thought I'd try some for the dogs as well. Javadoo, I used to feed as you do years ago and recall the dogs I had at the time did well then too.

Will play a little and see if I want to do canned as a topper or one kibble meal/one canned meal.

Echo my sensitive PWD seems to be doing well with the new addition but shes also on digestive enzymes.
 
#8 ·
I like to know if feeding can food only is OK too. If I can't afford full raw is raw and can good?
I have Harmony farms can food right now. Got it for $.75 a can at Big Lots. I'd like to stay at $1.00 per can or less.
Anyone have some can food they recommend that is in my price range?
I am feeding a 25 lb. dog so a day to a can and a half a day depending on calorie content.
Is Harmony farms a good food? I looked around and it looks like it is.
 
#10 ·
I think raw alone would end up being cheaper, but you can feed half canned. I would feed one of the 95% meat cans instead of a full ingredient canned food personally. And unlike monster's dad I don't believe it's just water and the quality of the meat in the can is important to me. I'd personally go with either the Wellness or Evo 95% cans.
 
#11 ·
Duke gets the Wellness 95% cans on the road. His poops get a kind of clay texture and reek a but though. And he gets gas. He only eats the chicken. He had two cans yesterday instead of his raw which resulted in diahreah outside. I think we're going to have to switch to the Evo ones and see how they work out.