is dried food food better for dogs,or should i carry on with tin food?

Question

I have a 6 month old mixed staff.

Answer 1

dry food is MUCH better for your dogs or cats. it promotes healthy teeth and gums and makes their teeth very white. while dogs that eat only canned food get tartar and ginginvtis and have very bad breath, this can also cause heart disease and other health problems and you have to have their teeth cleaned more often when they eat canned food than when they eat dry food. if you have started them out on canned food then you need to gradually get them adjusted to dry food. mix a little bit of dry food in their canned food and keep adding a little more every day until they only eat the dry

Answer 2

I always recommend canned food for cats over dried, but cats and dogs are quite different. Unlike cats, dogs teeth are designed to mash, so the chewing of hard kibble DOES help their teeth. But like a few others pointed out, no one likes the same thing over and over again. Giving your puppy some canned food a few times a week (even once a day) is OK, but make sure he gets a lot of hard to help keep his teeth in good condition. A good way to get him used to the hard kibble is to mix it in with some canned food.

Make sure your dog is getting proper nutrition, as well. A lot of dog food manufacturers like to brag that their food is "high quality" when that couldn't be further from the truth. Look at the ingredients on a bag of dog food. If the words "by-product" and "corn" appear a lot, avoid that food opting instead for a food made with real meats, high-quality grains, and more nutritional fillers like peas, carrots, etc. Solid Gold, Wellness, Nature's Variety, Natural Balance, and Blue Buffalo are all good, high quality dog foods. (Science Diet is "veterinarian recommended"....look at the ingredients list and you'll be shocked. This is why you need to read up on animal nutrition yourself).

Answer 3

Dry food is much better, it is better for their teeth and digestive systems. But don't switch over right away, mix your canned food 1/2 & 1/2 with dry food then gradually take away the canned food.

Answer 4

hi i have three staff x ridgeback and i always have used complete dry food its much better than tin food cause it cleans the dogs teeth as they eat and its good to have a balanced diet. ive give my dog tinned food once a week to give them a treat.

Answer 5

We tried our dog on all types of dog food when we got her, we found tinned food made her too loose toilet wise, we finally settled on Pedigree dry food, she loves it, it doesn't smell or attract flies, its better for their teeth and has everything in it that a dog needs, but basically I would go with what your dog favours, not all dogs can tolerate dry food and not all can tolerate wet food, I would suggest you give your dog a denta stick as often as you can too if your going to feed it wet food as that helps remove the food from their teeth and keeps them clean, you can get them in supermarkets as well as pet stores, good luck.

Answer 6

tinned food is much lower in protein than complete. Decide what you want to feed your dog and stick to it. I personally feed a low (18%) protein complete to my dogs because I have older dogs and you need to reduce the protein levels. Plus mine enjoy complete and it is cheaper and easier for me. I just fill a washing up bowl and top up as necessary. They help themselves as they feel peckish. With tinned, you are paying for 60% water. I prefer to add the water in a big bowl for free out of my tap.
I think its better for dogs to work at what they are eating and also by feeding ad-lib they are able to nibble during the day instead of gulping the tinmned food down fast and remaining hungry for the rest of the day. In any case, with a pup, it will need feeding up to 4 times a day. Much easier to leave a bowl down than physically open a tin 4 times. In summer, dry food will not go off or attract flies which lay eggs which can turn into maggots.
I have kepts dogs for 30 years now, used to show and breed but now do rescue and fostering and all of the dogs here get fed ad-lib on a complete diet. My current one is 'Awkrights' at only £4.99 for a 15kg sack. That feeds 7 dogs for 2 weeks. There is no tinned food on earth which would cost as little as that.Complete biscuit also keeps their teeth nice and clean.
Contrary to what some would have you believe it really doesn't matter if grain is mentioned first since dogs are not obligate carnivores. They aren't even carnivores but omnivores. They were designed to thrive on a relatively poor quality diet by nature. In the wild dogs are scavengers as well as hunters and if they hunt they eat everything, bones, stomach contents including whatever vegetable matter the prey has eaten. If they cannot hunt, they live on berries, roots, insects and carrion.
I did a food trial here for a well known high quality complete diet costing £45 a sack if I had bought it. I have to say in all honesty that I didn't notice any difference in how the dogs look or behaved. Their coats were as glossy as on their present diet. The only difference was that they do slightly more poops on cheaper foods but that isn't a problem for me. If I'm scooping after 7 dogs what's a few more dollops to lift?
Dogs are not like people, they don't care if they eat the same each day. They actually thrive on sameness as it makes them feel secure. Don't chop and change in order to give variety. All that'll do is confuse it and make it a fussy eater.
In 30 years of keeping dogs, mine get only the kibble with occasionaly treats like cubes of cheddar for training and worming pills, and raw eggs when I have a surplus (I keep poultry), and the occasional raw carrot. But day in, day out they get kibble and they enjoy it.Even the oldies tuck in and nobody turns their nose up expecting anything else. Don't give them options and they won't hold you to ransom to offer them something else.

Answer 7

the quality of the food is what matters. Grocery store stuff is the pits....Go to a Petsmart or better yet send for some catalogs. JB PET, CareaLot,Pet Food Direct, Here again, advantages and dis-advantages, you pay shipping but you don't have to set foot in a store ever...except for emergencies. Check out the ingredients on the can or bag......Grains mentioned first....no good....gotta be meat first. Lots of premium foods that are cost effective as well. Personally I feed both wet and dry.

Answer 8

dried food is better for them but you can mix moist food in with the dry food and it will not hurt your dog. dried food with no dyes are the best dry food that you can feed the dog.

Answer 9

The dry kibble is better than the wet canned dog food. My dog got liver damage because of the wet food. Liver damage is not fun to have. So I would feed your pup some good quality dry kibble. If you have Innova that dog food is one of the best dry kibble.

Answer 10

Our pup is not quite 5 months. He eats like a horse. We keep dry puppy food out for him all the time. Each evening we give him a package of moist puppy food. His preference is cat food. We put the cat food up on the washing machine where the cats can get it but our pup can't. Our vet says our pup is healthy and to keep doing what we are doing.