What are you feeding your dog

Montego does seem to crop up more than any other brand but like some other mentions, I also notices a drying out of hair and then gradual loss of the same.

I have for years noticed a frozen dog food in the various supermarkets called K9. They come out with all sorts of different coloured labels, so I guess various recipes and flavours. I looked into this further and our vet rated the frozen meals very highly.

It turns out that K9, only available in the W Cape is also available in pellet form. It is not marketed through the retail chains...because it is not branded. It comes in a plain rice type woven bag. When I look at the Eukanuba zip lock bag, which I like very much, I must feel that a wack must be spent on the quality, printing and standard of this bag.

I am also told that the K9 brand has Rosemary as well as Rooibos in it which is good for the skin and hair.

I am going to give this one a try at R 495 for 20kg - and its gets delivered to the door the next day after placing the order. My first bag arrives tomorrow.

Great comments allround, thanks guys!

I remember the K9 dog food- it was first marketed/sold from a Police dog trainer's house in Table View (trouble view)-Gie road.
It is an ostrich/rice mixture and I fed my past boerboel on it for 15 years.
After moving from trouble view, I tried to get the food in the CAW area, but wasnt able to get it further than Swellendam.
Heads-up.....speartackle, where are you purchasing the K9 from, please share.

Psy wrote:

I remember the K9 dog food- it was first marketed/sold from a Police dog trainer's house in Table View (trouble view)-Gie road.
It is an ostrich/rice mixture and I fed my past boerboel on it for 15 years.
After moving from trouble view, I tried to get the food in the CAW area, but wasnt able to get it further than Swellendam.
Heads-up.....speartackle, where are you purchasing the K9 from, please share.

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It was quite by chance, my son needed to stay later at school for swimming trials last week and we organised a lift home with a friend.....the friends mother is a rep for K9.

Long story short, they are now based wherever 021 706 is. I am told that they have 3 delivery vehicles on the road, so that explains the next day delivery policy. Another thing that really impressed me was the fact that they did not insist on payment prior to delivery. I hate that.

Their number is 021 706 5065 or info@k9petfoods.co.za.

kwaai...thanks Bud!

I know Eukanuba is expensive, but I will never change from it even though it kills my pocket. I am feeding two Labradors on it and they have the most amazing coats. I reluctantly had to kennel my dogs recently as all the ja broers dropped me on the last minute when I went away for a few days, and the owner of the kennels actually phoned me while I was away to find out what we feeding the dogs as she could not believe the condition of the coats and the dogs as a whole. Why I'm telling you all this is that you can tell a lot about a dogs health by the condition of its coat. It is one of the first areas that will be noticeable if your dogs health is failing due to nutrition. If you use a product such as Eukanuba it is important to weigh you dog on a regular basis and feed according to the feeding chart on the bag. We use and electronic kitchen scale and weigh their food to the gram. This way we know exactly how much food the dogs get and if they start getting slightly overweight or underweight, we just add or subtract as little as 5 grams per feed which rectifies the situation within a week. This shows how nutritious this food is and should NEVER be supplemented with anything else as it will cause an imbalance in proteins.

I don't know what type of puppy you got but if it is a big breed dog, I would definitely consider the best you can afford, due to ailments such as Osteoarthritis and Skin problems which will cost you more in the long run on Vet Bills.

With all that said, I understand the costs and my dogs are my life as we can't have kids, so I go all out for them. We have used montego in the past with fairly good results on previous dogs. That is the minimum I would use on a budget. Eukanuba will give your pup the building blocks it needs from a early age and as the dog gets older you do get to feed less as the amounts increase and decrease according to the dogs growth periods. That is why you must stick to the table on the bag. Check their website for more info as it is quite informative. http://www.eukanuba-south-africa.com/ Hope all this helps

We have two labs and feed them lusahn which an ostrich based food. I know they manufacture it near Mosselbay but not sure if it is available country wide or just in the Western Cape. They both love it, don't poop to much and their coats are in excellent condition...

HI
I got a pitbull since he was a puppy.fed hi, hills til he was two months.Them went onto montego puppy the ostrich one.after about 8 months i changed over to montego classic.Been working well but the dog seems to still be hungry aftedr its meals>have recently found out about natures sense food.

I believe that if the pup is not of pure blood her is no need to go all expensive in feed.Just my 2c.

Ps remember to feed them milk now and then and add some apple cider vinegar now and then on full moon to there water to de worm them.Learn t that form a buddy that runs a pasture reared farm

This is Queen Sheba, my 9 month old pure bred carver rednose pittbull. She has been eating Montego puppy all her life and I only supplement with Bob Martin's and mirra cote. As you can see she is very healthy and her coat always shines.
I'm thinking about taking her off the Montego puppy and putting her on adult food. Need to speak to her vet about when the best time is to do this as the labeling on the Montego bag says 18 months. As I can see Montego is a good brand with hardly any complaints I think I'll change her to the Montego adult range. Suits pocket and my dog's healthy.

I feed both our pets, a German Sheppard and cat, RAW.

As in raw meaty bones, animal carcasses, raw fish, raw eggs with shell, etc - but nothing cooked or processed.

Since being domesticated dogs have very slowly been evolving to adapt to domestic food. However, both cats and dogs are carnivores, feeding them masses amounts of grain and preservatives that is in a most of the pelleted or canned foods really does them a disservice. That's why you see so many dogs with weight, skin, mouth and other health problems.

Even so called BARF diets are much better than the commercial foods.

In terms of price it works out to around the same per month as higher-end processed food but it does take a bit more effort to prepare. The benefits however far outweighs the little bit of extra time.

I order quite a bit of food through these guys: http://www.rawnecessities.co.za they deliver for free at your home for orders over 20 kg.

If this interests you, do a bit of reading on the net, there is a wealth of information on feeding raw as there is a right and a wrong way in feeding or switching to feed raw.

landshark wrote:

I feed both our pets, a German Sheppard and cat, RAW.

As in raw meaty bones, animal carcasses, raw fish, raw eggs with shell, etc - but nothing cooked or processed.

Since being domesticated dogs have very slowly been evolving to adapt to domestic food. However, both cats and dogs are carnivores, feeding them masses amounts of grain and preservatives that is in a most of the pelleted or canned foods really does them a disservice. That's why you see so many dogs with weight, skin, mouth and other health problems.

Even so called BARF diets are much better than the commercial foods.

In terms of price it works out to around the same per month as higher-end processed food but it does take a bit more effort to prepare. The benefits however far outweighs the little bit of extra time.

I order quite a bit of food through these guys: http://www.rawnecessities.co.za they deliver for free at your home for orders over 20 kg.

If this interests you, do a bit of reading on the net, there is a wealth of information on feeding raw as there is a right and a wrong way in feeding or switching to feed raw.

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- Everynow and again I also give my dogs raw tripe, works wonders for them

Don't bite the hand that feeds you. The two best seats in the house stolen last nite.

The other culprit

AYOBA! wrote:

any one here have a solution to keep pigeon's from stealing dog food?

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I have 2 border collies that are now 8 months and had the same problem. They used to eat when they felt like eating and i often found that food stayed out in their bowl the whole day and the birds used to eat half of it!

What i did was portion their food for 7am and then 6pm, and i find now that they eat it all in one sitting, instead of leaving them food during the day to eat at will. Works a lot better for me and them.

They are on the Eukanuba medium puppy and the 15kg bag lasts them 3 weeks. I said that i will feed them a good diet in the first year so that they can develop well, and then change over a bit later on.

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Pigeons and birds aren't a problem for me. Bella doesn't know that labradors are supposed to only fetch birds that got shot, she tries to fetch anything.

So no one else cooks up some meaty stuff for their dogs? Mine loves warm breakfast. In fact if I run out or have to give her plain kibble because I run late or something, she looks at me like I'm mad for giving her dry food...

100% correct! the second biggest rip-off to e-tolls is dogfood.

I've always fed my dogs pedigree and they have lived long, happy and healthy lives. I don't dispute that Eukanuba is better but do the dogs really give a shit (excuse the pun).

Psy wrote:

playa wrote:

I used Montego on my previous breeding pair and Montego changed their recipe and my dogs started to itch and some hair fell out that is why I tried Complete. its in the same price range as Montego. But if Montego works for your dog its not a bad food just did not work with mine so I changed. I also buy bone meal from the butcher when they have and cook it as a sauce over their pellets now and again also helps.

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I have noticed the same on my boerboel.
Thanks for the recommendation.

I have also found out(the hard way)the expensive foods arent necessarily the best!

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You will see this with the normal/standard Montego. Rather use the Montego Karoo which is way better. My rottie has been on that as he started to get an upset tummy on Hills so we switched his food and so far so good.

boeta brown wrote:

This is Queen Sheba, my 9 month old pure bred carver rednose pittbull. She has been eating Montego puppy all her life and I only supplement with Bob Martin's and mirra cote. As you can see she is very healthy and her coat always shines.
I'm thinking about taking her off the Montego puppy and putting her on adult food. Need to speak to her vet about when the best time is to do this as the labeling on the Montego bag says 18 months. As I can see Montego is a good brand with hardly any complaints I think I'll change her to the Montego adult range. Suits pocket and my dog's healthy.

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When you switch , switch to the Karoo range of Montego. Way way better.

What a lot of sense can be arrived at when a lot of heads come together as on this thread.

I have decided to switch the adult German Leopard onto the K9 which arrived without a hitch. I will keep the pup Leopard on Eukanuba until 18 months, the price of which is, by the way, not R 568 anymore, as that was a promotion, but today R 650 for
15 kg!!!

And we thought school fees were expensive!

speartackle wrote:

What a lot of sense can be arrived at when a lot of heads come together as on this thread.

I have decided to switch the adult German Leopard onto the K9 which arrived without a hitch. I will keep the pup Leopard on Eukanuba until 18 months, the price of which is, by the way, not R 568 anymore, as that was a promotion, but today R 650 for
15 kg!!!

And we thought school fees were expensive!

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I buy my Eukanuba and Hills in "bulk" from my vet ( 2 x 15 Kg bags and 4 x 5kg ) its about 7 weeks supply and he gives me a reasonable discount .