Brand of food

What do you feed your sheepdog?

If you could, please tell me what brand...how much per day, and the weight and age of your dog.

thanks!
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Putina Pro Plan or Baker's Complete (Chicken or Lamb and rice) kibble, morning and evening, with a rusk at supper time.

Woof's just coming up to a year old and weighs approx 65 llbs.
I feed my OES Natural Balance Duck and Potato (she has food allergies and this seemed to work well with her) She weighs 75-80 lbs and will be 2 in Dec. I feed her 4 cups a day. 2 in the morning and 2 at night.
I feed my 4 month old sheepie IAMS brand in the yellow bag (for large breed puppies) It has a chart on the back of the bag to tell you how much to feed each day according to age and/or weight.
I feed my 4 month and 6 month sheepies Iam's in the yellow bag too.
i was told not to abide by the amounts on the back of the bags of dogfood.
was told they were way to high.
I have been feeding Guinevere Solid Gold Millennia (no - not the old disco tv show -LOL) since she was a puppy. It was highly recommended to me, and I have been very happy with the results. I also use a supplement made by the same company called Seameal that is mixed with water and added to the food. Solid Gold is not cheap - about $35 for a 40 lb bag, but if it saves a trip to the vet (which have been few and far between) that is a savings for me!

Cheers,
Guinevere's Dad, Kevin Z.
I also feed my new 9 wk old puppy Solid Gold. I checked with a variety of pet stores and each one recommended this particular brand of food. It's a Holistic Brand and the package claims the following:
No Wheat
No Soybeans
No Corn
No Animal Fat
No ByProducts
No Sugar
No Salt
No Preservatives

The mail ingredient is Lamb Meal, Millet,Brown Rice,Canola Oil, Flaxseed Oil...etc...

Blue my 12 year old Heeler/Lab eats Iams. The vet said his coat and teeth appearance would have her quess his age at two!!

Shaggy my 15 year old OES usually eats chicken,salmon or organ meat which I cook for her and lots of beta carotene veggies like sweet potatoes and carrots due to her having Immune Dyfieciency Thombocytopenia..(dunno if I spelt that right)
She's lived with it for six years...it's sort of like leukemia. This is NOT recommended by any means unless you really need to boost a dogs immune system as at one point her plalete count was 10 and she recieved a series of blood transfusions. It took a bit of research at the library to find out what would boost her immune system as she was near death and I had nothing to lose at that point .

So, in a nutshell her diet is like that of a cancer patient..beta carotene veggies,protein and lots of vitamins included. Her plalete count soared up to a normal count of 185 after this. Again, only mentioning this NOT as a standard diet but, should your dog ever develope this disease as very few dogs "walk away from it" as my vet said and told me "whatever your doing keep it up". It's been six years and she's still with me despite her age and illness.

Yikes!!!!!! is this ever hard at feeding time...trying to co-ordinate the food bowls and making sure each dog only eats their food...never mind the cats which eat in a seperate room!!! Should mention my last two cats lived to the ages of 19 and 21 eating only inexpensive brands and I would cook liver a few times a year (not much however as heard this can be harmful to them)

Sorry for being long winded..(as usual)

Marianne :P
My OES, Daffy, loves Chicken Soup for The Dog Lover's Soul brand dog food. It seems to have very high quality natural ingredients. Daffy's coat has improved since she has been on this brand food. Also, all o my dogs and even my cat, Oscar loves the dog food, and no the cat is not supposed to be eating the dog food. Feeding directions are on the dog food. This seems to be a fairly new dog food, and it may be hard to find. I found Daffy's dg food at a Purina stor in Hanover, PA. I hope my advice is helpful to you and your doggy. :D

~Ashley & Daffy
I feed my 5 month old oes nutro brand food. Its great for his coat and skin.
We feed 4 year old Abbi Nutro all natural for Adult large breeds in the blue bag at this time. Abbi weighs 72 lbs and stands about 27 inches at the shoulder. The vet says her weight is perfect for her size and shouldn't add to any joint distress she may encounter.
She loves Nutro and hopefully it will help with some of the exocrine problems she's been having. She's lost her nails and can make her pads bleed if I do not put socks on her feet before we walk on pavement.

She gets 220g or about a cup and a half of it in the morning and then another cup and a half at night. If she's been active and is hungry, I sometimes give her a small amount around lunch. She goes outside for her water most days---except in inclement weather. I feed her around times when she's about to lie down and exercise her after she has a drink of water first. This has helped prevent her drinking and eating so fast that some of it comes back up -- usually the water. And I hope it will prevent stomach torsion or bolting.
Pisco eats purina Pro Plan (puppy)...
when he was a baby (2 month he had an digestic ensyma misssing and whatever he ate just went the other way intacked...my vet gave him an ensyma everyday for 1 month and papaya (trpical fruit ...think you call it passion fruit) twice a week...no more problems since then although I still give him papaya once a month....and he loves it!
he is 7 month and weights around 50 pounds...not sure about his height....
apart from that he takes calcium and vitamins tablets daily.
Science Diet.... all three (two sheepies and a mixed breed)
Canidae Platinum is the best we've used so far. Nutro Natural for Senior Dogs was pretty good. Didn't like Innova.
We fed Dougal (now 9 months) Eukenuba puppy large breed since we got him but he went off it in a big way a few months ago so we swapped to Bakers Complete. He loves it and once again enjoys meal times.
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