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07-10-2009, 07:59 PM | #1 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: texas
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| Need to change food The economy stinks and I need to save some money. Anyone know a canned food thats less than 2.50 a can AND a good food? And does anyone know if my dogs can have solid gold green tripe day in/out and be safe? |
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07-11-2009, 02:12 PM | #2 |
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| Do you feed only canned for a reason or do you feed kibble too? In the long run, canned is actually more expensive because you can't store it as long. I buy a few cans a week and mix it in the dry food for Jackson. He gets Innova dry food (which here is $12.95 for a 6lb bag) and Innova canned (which is $1.50 or something per can) or the Dog Whisperer canned food (from Petco, it's around $1.30 or something per can).
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07-11-2009, 04:27 PM | #3 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: USA
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| Chicken Soup for the Dog Lovers Soul is a good quality food that is very economical. I don't know if it comes in cans though. It's rated pretty high on dogfoodanalysis.com. |
07-11-2009, 11:54 PM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: texas
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| So far they really dislike kibble. Weve been on premade raw but at 100 dollars a month its killing me. Chloe will actually suck off the canned and spit out the kibble. When I tried kibble Chloe mdae herself throw up daily by starving herself. Shes very hard headed and not completely healthy. But I love her totally. |
07-12-2009, 07:31 AM | #5 |
LoveMy2 Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: East Tennessee
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| Thats so cute, the sucking off the canned food and spitting out the kibble, not the throwing up. I dont feed canned but hope you find something that works for you. I know when we start crunching numbers each month my hubby always mentions the "food" bill and looks in her direction. lol We can't help but love em though! |
07-13-2009, 07:07 PM | #6 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Van Alstyne, TX
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| I would go to a good pet food store and see what they have for canned food. I would think Innova would be good. Chicken Soup also makes a canned food which is pretty cheap. There are several others as well. I would check to make sure to get a good complete food since your dog won't eat kibble. I would also consider rotation feeding so that you are supplying a variety of nutrients. That way, what one food lacks, another may have. |
07-13-2009, 09:42 PM | #7 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Coconut Creek, FL
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| The Chicken Soup canned food is good stuff--I looked at the ingredients and there was nothing that I didn't know what it was...better than I can say for most of my foods! I mix in a teaspoon of that with Stella's dry kibble at dinnertime, it helps to get her to eat it right away so I can take her out and get that over with before too late. |
11-05-2009, 07:52 PM | #8 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Crofton, MD, USA
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| I know there's a Merrick food (I'm not sure which flavor- or if it's all flavors) that you can add hot water to and it turns into "gravy". They might like that. They have 1# bags at most quality pet food stores for $1.99. |
11-06-2009, 06:03 AM | #9 |
YT 2000 Club Member | Chicken soup is a good canned food and I can get it here for .99 a can. My dogs didnt tolerate it well. Merricks offers canned but I do beleive its usually around 2.80ish for a can, they do have a new line of food called whole earth farms and the canned is 1.86 on thier website. Most of your better canned foods are over 2.50 a can.
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11-06-2009, 10:19 AM | #10 |
YT Addict Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: West Palm Beach, Fl
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| I just got some taste of the wild and evo cans for right around $2 each can. both are high quality foods....
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11-06-2009, 11:45 AM | #11 |
Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: nebraska
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| we are feeding naltural balanced canned food and its around 1.50 a can |
11-06-2009, 11:52 AM | #12 |
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| In my opinion, a lot of the canned food are somewhat questionable. Quite a few brands still use Menu Foods and Evangers had an issue too (said it was just a paper processing problem, but others say differently). So anyway, I can't really recommend one. Canned food as the sole diet source can be extremely expensive though. Could you try crushing the kibble and using less canned?
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11-07-2009, 06:47 PM | #13 |
My Lil Man! Donating Member | Lifes Abundance has some can foods and its like $34.50 for 24 cans which is like $1.44 per can! I have never gotten any but have heard from some friends that feed the canned food that their babies like it. I feed Gizmo the Lifes Abundance dry dog food and he likes it but I have not fed him the canned food. |
11-08-2009, 05:11 AM | #14 | |
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