Burns & Applaws wet food?

Katrina101 · 22-10-2015 06:31PM #1

Hi,

I've had gained so much Information & help from this forum. Hoping someone could help me out again.

My incredibly fussy 3yr old Boston Terrier has completely gone off kibble. So about a year ago we started feeding him the raw food chubs, which he loved at first. I stupidly bought him some Burns wet food pouches and tins of Applaws dog food. I have never seen him eat is food so quickly..lol..

I would like to know if the above types of wet food are good in terms of nutrition? I can't afford to feed him full time on these as they are crazy expensive for a 11kg dog. Hoping to feed him a mix of Chubbs/Burns/Applaws. I'd just like to know he is getting everything he needs from the wet food as I know some wet foods are full of c**p.

Sorry for the long post, he is really fussy and I know this is probably our fault. He lost a lot of weight in Kennels last year, as a result we have tried to feed him anything he likes to get the weight back on him. It was quite traumatic seeing him so thin.

PS - I've also tried lukkulus and Rooco..he never took to it. He would eat it eventually but never finished his plate.

Thank you and sorry for the long post.

maggiepip · 22-10-2015 07:05PM

Applaws wet dog food is not a complete food, its a supplementary food, so it needs to be fed alongside a complete food. Burns is complete so thats fine. I don't know much about raw feeding but I'm sure someone else will help there. Theres no crap in any of those foods anyway, thats for sure!

Katrina101 · 22-10-2015 07:56PM

Brilliant, thank you. I am hoping if I mix some of the Burns/Applaws with the Chubb it will get him eating the Chubbs again. As the tins/pouches are far too expensive to feed on their own.

Thanks for the heads up about the Applaws, I'll make sure to only give it as a mix.

Thanks Again.

aonb · 23-10-2015 10:25AM

can understand how horrible to collect your beloved dog from a kennel to see s/he has lost a lot of weight

Fussy dogs are a pain for their owners - I have been there - whether they are fussy because of their owners pandering to the dog or a dog is born fussy would make an interesting discussion...

One thing down through the years I found my fussy dogs would ALWAYS eat is home cooked food. This can be varied, and can be done much more cheaply than any bought food. Basically a stew or casserole of whatever you can buy cheaply/easily, along with brown rice or potatos or sweet potatos, a bit of veg, put all in a pan, add water, boil, debone the meat, put in the fridge, and you can have enough food for a week. I use chicken thighs,or a bit of beef, or mince, or a bit of fishv(frozen whiting in Tesco is very economical) - added to the rice/veg when they are nearly cooked.

Add a raw bone, a chicken wing, a tin of sardines, a scrambled egg (any/all of theses) every week to the dogs diet, and he should do very well.

Burns & Applaws wet food?

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