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The right food for boxer puppy

  • 20-06-2020 6:16pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭


    Hi, I've a boxer puppy, and I'm wondering what would be the best food for it? As far as I know boxers need a high protein diet as they're quite muscular and well built. The breeder gave me "Gain" food for puppies and I'm sure that is good for it but is it? Is there anything better? I like how the Gain is priced but if it's not completely ideal for my boxer then I suppose I'd be willing to change to something else.

    Any advice is appreciate thank you.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,688 ✭✭✭VonVix


    Burns is 100 times better than Gain composition wise, if you like something of that price point. A lot of breeders have their dogs on Gain as Gain do discounts for people who need/will buy a lot of their food, in turn giving discounts to folks who purchase their puppies (free bag, etc).

    What would be your budget for a 12kg bag?

    [Dog Training + Behaviour Nerd]



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,391 ✭✭✭olestoepoke


    Ive used Simpsons for years. supplement it with meat veg and rice scraps from our own dinner. Ive a full breed Border Terrier and he's almost 8 years old now. I try my best not to over feed him and exercise him everyday and he's as healthy as a butchers dog. Have never been to a vet other than the initial needles and booster.
    https://www.simpsonspremium.com/


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭The Darkroom


    VonVix wrote: »
    Burns is 100 times better than Gain composition wise, if you like something of that price point. A lot of breeders have their dogs on Gain as Gain do discounts for people who need/will buy a lot of their food, in turn giving discounts to folks who purchase their puppies (free bag, etc).

    What would be your budget for a 12kg bag?

    I don't mind the budget at all, but I've heard of burns before and how it's good for bringing down the high energy of dogs with that trait (boxers are giddy goats). The benefits of this is a less energetic dog and the ability to train it. However, I plan to really run my dog as I'm high energy myself haha so I don't think a high protein diet would be an issue for her. Between gain and burns there is only a 3% difference in the protein and 2% percent different in the fat. But composition wise if it's worth switching over to burns I may do just that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,880 ✭✭✭✭gmisk


    I have a French bulldog he has been on Lily's kitchen since he was a pup no issues at all and his coat is fantastic


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,236 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Just on the above, be really careful not to over-exercise your dog until her growth plates have closed at around 18 months, you risk doing permanent damage otherwise. Rule of thumb is 5 minutes of exercise per month of age til then.

    That doesn't include "free" play that she does herself, but rather on-lead exercise such as walks and runs.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭The Darkroom


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Just on the above, be really careful not to over-exercise your dog until her growth plates have closed at around 18 months, you risk doing permanent damage otherwise. Rule of thumb is 5 minutes of exercise per month of age til then.

    That doesn't include "free" play that she does herself, but rather on-lead exercise such as walks and runs.

    Thanks Dial hard. She is 4 months so we give her 20 minutes of exercise on the lead.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,790 Mod ✭✭✭✭DBB


    I'm not seeing any much difference between Burns and Gain? Very similar ingredients in very similar amounts. I don't rate either particularly highly in relation to other, in my opinion better foods on the market.
    I've lost count of the amount of dogs who stop eating Burns (both Robbie Burns' and John Burns' products) because it seems quite bland... many owners (myself included when I fed it years ago, when there were far fewer good dry foods on the market) finding that they need to feed more than the recommended daily amount to keep condition on their dogs.
    Having said that, Gain do what looks to be a pretty good grain free food.
    I'm not a fan of food containing grain, with the possible exception of rice in small quantities. I realise there has been a possible association found in one study between some of the ingredients used to replace the grain, and increased risk of dilated cardiomyelopathy in susceptible breeds, but this finding has apparently not been replicated in repeat studies.
    I like foods such as Wolf of Wilderness, Purizon, Taste of the Wild, all of which I've tried (well... my dogs have :o), and further back have used Arden Grange, Nutro, James Wellbeloved (they've a grain free range too), all of which were fine, from what I could see at the time anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,062 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    The grain free risk has basically been rubbished (surprise surprise!) - https://www.petfoodindustry.com/articles/9323-dcm-connection-to-grain-free-dog-food-not-found-in-review?v=preview

    I wouldn’t rate Burns myself for the price you pay. I fed it very early on with Bailey and it didn’t agree with him at all. I then fed grain free versions of JWB and happy dog from zooplus until we switched to raw when we was around 2ish and never looked back! New pup will be on raw and Rocco Junior


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭MissShihTzu


    I used Burns dry and wet food as well as Lily's Kitchen for my Shih Tzu. They were the only foods that agreed with him as he had a sensitive tum. He had Royal Canin as a pup which was recommended by the breeder, but that turned out to be the worst possible food for him! Upset his tums no end.


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