Dog health & food thread

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Originally Posted by muted reborn

My dog is a vegan so he eats a lot of organic kale, tofu, humanely grown beans, and whole grains from seeds 1000 years old. If I buy a bag of vegan kibbles, I'm fine spending $90 on a 20 pound bag because dogs are family! Family that eats it's own poop and throw up, yes, but I want that regurgitated meal to be organic, vegan, humanely sourced, and delicious.

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You forgot 'free range'.

My dog (7 yr old border collie/jack russel/pitt mutt) is remarkably healthy. he has lived his whole live on Kirkland brand dog food, and in the last couple years has supplemented his kibble with cleanup duty under the toddlers high chair/booster seat. The vet keeps telling me that i should switch him off anything with grain in it, but that stuff is much more expensive, and why fix what aint broken? My BIL has a dog 1 year younger who he pampers the shit out of and its developed all sorts of fun minor ailments over the past year. so, who the hell knows?

He used to get a shitton of exercise (and look pittbull jacked) until about age 4 when my kid came along, and now he gets a few walks a week and free run at a park/woods maybe once every six weeks. But, when he does get his opportunity to run, he still has better speed and stamina than most. Pretty impressive how high his base fitness level has remained actually.

I work in feed formulation software and made a web app with the help of veterinary nutritionists that allows you to create balanced rations for dogs and cats from human food. It's free to use, please check it out! www.MixitHandy.com

Personally I feed my gsd and two oriental cats a raw prey model diet, all meat. I also eat mostly meat, so we all eat the same thing pretty much except I also eat some fruit and potatoes and dairy.

Anyway, please look at the web app, keen for feedback. :)

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Originally Posted by The Reverend Floater

Another interesting point he made was that one of the best things you can do for your dogs overall health....get another dog, no joke.

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I'm inheriting my daughter's dog in a few weeks, she finished up at UofU and is moving out of the country (to London) next month.

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Atlas is 4yro a rescue mix that my daughter and her room mates shared in college and my girl Maisy is crazy about him. They got him somewhere around 6-8mos but they were his 3rd owner, he's super sweet and friendly but a bit of a runner unfortunately so can't be trusted off lead.

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Originally Posted by shera

I work in feed formulation software and made a web app with the help of veterinary nutritionists that allows you to create balanced rations for dogs and cats from human food. It's free to use, please check it out! www.MixitHandy.com

Personally I feed my gsd and two oriental cats a raw prey model diet, all meat. I also eat mostly meat, so we all eat the same thing pretty much except I also eat some fruit and potatoes and dairy.

Anyway, please look at the web app, keen for feedback. :)

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Cool link. My lady has been home cooking food for our 10 year old bulldog for the last 6 months. She’s turned into a lean mean cuddling machine. Dropped 8lbs, and more energy since the day we rescued her from a puppy farm 7 years ago.


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Originally Posted by altacoup

Cool link. My lady has been home cooking food for our 10 year old bulldog for the last 6 months. She’s turned into a lean mean cuddling machine. Dropped 8lbs, and more energy since the day we rescued her from a puppy farm 7 years ago.


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Thanks for looking. Home cooked ftw!

Wondering if anyone has dealt with fixing red rusty eye tear type marks? Or however you describe it. My dog has a minor issue with it mostly on one eye.
Wife wants to handle at vet but thought I’d try and run it by the group first. We’ve upped to some premium food and it’s helped some. Thoughts?

Probably nothing serious, but a vet check is still recommended. Pretty common in older dogs, especially small, light colored ones. Our 17 year old JR has it and we just regularly wipe them with specialty eye wipes (Optixcare).