My 2 year old german shepherd is so active, she swims and plays fetch everyday. She is however on the thinner side and Im wondering if there is a really good dog food that will help put some weight on her.
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If you want to feed your dog kibble, I was extremely pleased with Solid Gold wolf king because it suited my Dobermann & overall I liked the ingredients.
However, in my opinion the optimum diet for a carnivore is a raw meat & bones diet. This would be meat such as chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, ox & organs such as liver & heart, supplemented with bones.
My Dobermanns eat raw chicken carcasses & gnaw on hard beef marrow bones, with chunk of raw meat on them. Raw bones are fantastic as keeping a dog's teeth clean & are nature’s toothbrush.
If your dog appears to be slightly thin, then increase the amount of food she is given & find a food with a higher pure meat content, which is low in unnecessary bulking ingredients which have little or no nutritional value to the dog.
One final point, if you cannot put weight on your GSD b*tch, she may have an overactive thyroid, which does cause weight loss.
Anonymous
Hi there, There usually isn't a whole lot of different between normal puppy food and large breed puppy food. Having compared the two there is absolutely no reason why you couldn't feed large breed dog food to your Samoyed. It has slightly higher calcium content and everything else is basically the same! So, as long as the actual size of the kibble is ok then he will be fine!
T J
Brand of food is probably not the problem, what is the formula that you are using?
The two most common problems that we run into is that every now and then we find a dog that doesn't metabolize lamb properly and doesn't retain weight as a result, the other problem is that every now and then we find a dog that doesn't metabolize chicken properly and suffers from a loose stool as a result.
The reason for saying all that is because most of the time when a dog isn't doing well on a particular feed, the solution is to just change the protein source. Changing to the fanciest food on the planet won't solve the problem if the protein source is the same.
goldwing
Surprisingly, Kirklands (COSTCO) is rated A+ by Poodle breeders (standards)...and poodles have a high danger of Stomach Torsion, so if the food is rated A+, it has very little filler in it! Purina, IAMS, Pedigree, Alpo, etc. are all stuffed with fillers...and they are not good foods. Most dogs will stop eating when they are full. Fill the dog bowl, let the dog do as it wishes...it may overeat at first (if it has not been getting enough food) but this will stop in a short time. NO table scraps, only uncooked bones (any kind of bone, as long as it is uncooked, even chicken bones are fine!) And in fact, once or twice a week, give the dog a uncooked chicken leg or thigh...cleans their teeth. Uncooked bones do not splinter. And, even cooked beef ribs CAN splinter!!!!
inuit_dreams
a RAW/BARF diet is always best, next best would be a grain free dog food. The first response has most of the best kinds. Taste of the Wild is probably the cheapest of the good dog foods. You can find a store by searching on the Taste of the Wild website.